Positive Behaviour Support Lead Practitioner

YMCA Robin Hood Group is expanding its Children and Young People's Residential Therapeutic Service to include a brand-new Positive Behaviour Support team. We are looking for a Positive Behaviour Support Lead Practitioner to work as part of this brand-new team, working with the children, young people and staff teams in our service. Through the introduction of this brand-new team, we aim to promote, protect and safeguard the physical, emotional and safety needs of children and young people. This team will also act as mentors and trainers to our residential staff teams, fostering positive behavioural support knowledge transfer to practice. Here at the YMCA, we believe that all children and young people deserve prompt holistic individualised clinical assessment, intervention and care. Therefore, all the homes adopt a psychologically informed approach to caring for children with trauma lived experiences within a home environment and the community. Our approach has been designed in collaboration with our Consultant Forensic Psychologist, therapists, residential care specialists and wider delivery team, to provide a unique step-down and prevention service from Tier 4 CAMHS; Psychiatric Intense Care Units; secure children's homes; those awaiting therapeutic placements post hospital admissions for a mental health assessment or are stepped up from generic children's homes to prevent hospital admission. Job Role As a Positive Behaviour Support Lead Practitioner, you will lead and work as part of a peripatetic rapid response team to provide additional support to a staff team and the child when children become dysregulated.

• In conjunction with the above, part of your role will include:-
• Design, develop and deliver induction training including but not limited to, the areas of safeguarding; positive behaviour
support; risk management; recording and reporting; ligature and TeamTeach
• Encourage continuous professional development in the above training area
• Foster positive behavioural support knowledge transfer to practice
• Design and deliver proactive and reactive key working
• Facilitate reflective debriefs
• Utilise a risk reduction approach to audit, analyse and evaluate the use of TeamTeach within service
• Supervise and develop the positive behaviour support professionals within the team
As this is a 24/7 service, flexible working hours on a rota basis, which includes weekends is required. As is travel to all homes throughout the regions in which the children's homes are located. On a day to day basis, you will also:
• Provide children with a high standard of personalised support.
• Follow and implement person-centered positive behaviour support plans and Risk Assessments for each individual child within our
care and any other associated documentation within the home.
• Advocate for the child's views, wishes and feelings to be included in their care plan and supporting documents.
• Promote and protect characteristics including but not limited to race, religion, sexual orientation and disability.
• Supervise and support the Positive Behaviour Support Professionals to deliver their role.
• Engage in own professional development to keep up to date with the latest research, best practice and legislation and to
implement same in practice.
• To work from an empirical and practice informed evidence base.
• Engage in monthly reflective practice with the Clinical Team.
• Work collaboratively with other relevant professionals, including psychologists, social workers, and educators, to ensure a
holistic approach to each child's care.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of one's own practice, assessments, interventions, and outcomes.
• Prepare and submit regular reports to the Operations Manager and Registered Home Manager(s) and other relevant stakeholders on
the progress and impact of PBS interventions.

As the lead and founding member of our new PBS team, you will be an experienced professional ready to share your skills and experiences to make a real difference to the life of the children and young people in our care. The following skills are essential:-
• Leadership and management experience including supervising others for at least two years in a residential and or similar
environment
• One or more of the following
• Qualification in PBS
• Level 5 in Residential Care
• Registered Mental Health / Learning Disability Nurse
• Masters level in Psychology
• Experience of designing, developing and delivering training
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including assertive listening
• Reflective and responsive practitioner
• Proficient in risk assessment, risk management and harm reduction
• Dealing with risk behaviours including hostility; verbal and physical aggression; violence; self-harm and suicidal ideation,
thoughts, verbalisations, behaviours and or actions of intent to take own life
• Thorough, concise and accurate record keeping and report writing skill
• Able to manage professionals boundaries and containing personal anxiety in challenging circumstances.
• Full UK driving license, Disability Confident
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