Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Worker (Learning Disability)

This is a rare opportunity to join our friendly Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. Our team is a large well established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care support to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside.

We are looking for staff who are passionate in providing support to people who present with complex physical/mental health issues and behavioural histories. To work within our Positive Behaviour Support Team in CLDT.

The ideal candidate will have an understanding of National and Local Policies relating to the management of working with people who present with behaviours that challenge as well as experience of working within a PBS framework.

Main duties of the job

In North Tyneside the CLDT is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It is a multi-disciplinary team managed along with services provided by the Local Authority.

Building on the current CLDT provision, this post will facilitate the provision of children and adult specialist service offering assessment, intervention, and training for people who have a learning disability, complex behavioural/and or mental health needs.

This post involves a range of clinical activities, including supporting senior nurse with monitoring of behavioural case load, assessments and interventions and managing risk in the community. Liaising and working in collaboration within the multi-disciplinary work force.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues in order to enhance health and well-being, and to prevent or reduce behaviour that challenges.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.