JOB SUMMARY:
Each Positive Behaviour Support Lead will work as part of a dedicated team to provide a consistently high quality active support service within a caring environment, ensuring that both service users and staff are treated with dignity and respect. The Lisburn PBS service is a challenging but equally rewarding service to work in. It is a supported living setting that facilitates a bespoke placement for individuals with complex needs that includes, ill mental health, learning disability, and autism coupled with behaviours that challenge
In Lisburn PBS, the service user is at the centre of everything that we do, therefore the role of PBS lead is very bespoke to the service user’s needs. The PBS lead role is very much hands on, where the lead will have a high level of active engagement with service users in all areas of their daily lives. In conjunction with Positive behaviour support practitioners, this will include personal care, medication management and administration, meal preparation, cleaning and laundry, money management, activity planning, facilitating appointments, assisting with family visits and setting future goals.
Service users are often at different levels of independence with these skills and tasks. The PBS lead will model and provide advice on approaches on a daily basis to quality assure practitioner application of bespoke PBS plans and consistency in care.
Staff ratios are dependent on level of need and associated support required. Ranging from 1:1 to 3:1.
Through a key worker system, the use of positive behaviour methodologies and through liaising with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to include- Intensive Support Service, social worker, speech and language therapist and a clinical Psychologist. The Positive Behaviour Support Leads will be responsible for overseeing programmes of support and coordinating the delivery of these by fully immersing themselves in their application and actively supporting the team of Positive Behavioural Support Practitioners and service users on a daily basis. You will be champions in the positive behaviour support approach, and Praxis Care will support you to attain competence through training and formal qualifications and experience and expect that you contribute to the dissemination of understanding of PBS across the organisation.
As an organisation of excellence, Praxis Care will continuously evolve and improve practice, undertaking research to support its aim to be a world leader in this field.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- To support the manager with the day to day operational running of the scheme including rota management and creation, supervison and appraisal of staff
- To provide active support in relation to the physical, emotional and personal needs of Service Users, ensuring that work within the scheme is Service User focussed and upholds the principles of respect, privacy, dignity, fulfilment, independence and choice.
- To plan, co-ordinate and implement the safe transition of new Service Users into the service and community where necessary in consultation with the MDT.
- To liaise with Service User families and relevant members of multi-disciplinary teams, community groups and voluntary bodies with the aim of promoting the Service User needs.
- To coordinate the planning, development and implementation of individual care and support plans to enhance and maximise the capabilities and independence of the Service Users.
- In consultation with the MDT and management, PBS leads will identify specific areas of data collection that are required, agree how this data will be gathered, collated and share this information with the MDT for analysis as required, and utilise to inform decision making in relation to the effectiveness of current PBS plans and approaches.
- To ensure that adequate records are created and maintained and necessary reports, including untoward/critical incidents are produced and reported in line with Organisational policy and statutory requirements. This will include facilitating and participating in debriefs on an individual and group basis.
- To coordinate ongoing assessments and reviews in a regular and systematic basis through the completion of suitable assessment models.
- To take the lead in challenging and complex situations and ensure the safety of service users and staff through the appropriate management of violence and aggression.
- To have a full working knowledge of positive behavioural support and systems theory and to be able to exercise judgement in identifying and addressing complex behaviours where a range of options and the implications of each of these have to be considered.
- To act in the best interests of the Service User at all times, including taking timely action if the service users wellbeing is jeopardised. This includes having a working knowledge of Safeguarding procedure and acting accordingly if concerns arise.
- To ensure that medication is held, stored and administered in accordance with Praxis Care’s Medication Policy and current statutory and legislative procedure and provide advice which contributes to the care, wellbeing and education of the Service User, including health promotion
- To provide effective leadership, supervision and management to a team of Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners, including monitoring of adherence to service user care and support plans, bespoke PBS plans, reflective practice, time keeping, attendance and the participation in any capability, disciplinary and grievances procedures etc.
- To complete any mandatory training identified as necessary by the Organisation whilst identifying and addressing personal development opportunities for both the post holder and those managed by the post holder.
- To actively participate in research and in-house training as required, which may include specialist training to work with individual service users.
- To complete a vocational or professional qualification as prescribed by the organisation.
- To participate and speak at conferences and staff development training to ensure that good practice is disseminated appropriately.
SKILLS & COMPETENCIES:
- Communication skills both verbal & written
- Report writing skills
- Assessment skills
- Evaluation skills
- Computer skills
- Risk Assessment skills
- Problem solving skills
- Organisational skills
- Time management skills
SKILLS NEEDED
Supervision, Communication, Teamwork, Ability to support clients with learning disabilities and/or complex needs
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