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Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
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Job overview
We have a rare and exciting opportunity for a Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) Practitioner to join our in-patient team at Sowenna, working with young people with severe and enduring mental health presentations. This is a great time to be joining an expanding team and the post will provide the opportunity to contribute to the development of PBS practices, working within a creative and innovative multi-disciplinary team.
The role is a permanent full-time opportunity, which can be flexible for the right candidate. The successful practitioner will be an integral part of the ward team, as well as a key member of the wider MDT, supporting clinical staff and providing advice and guidance on the ward. We are looking for someone preferably with experience of children’s mental health services, although this is not essential. The successful practitioner will be required to draw upon the developing evidence base to support assessment, formulation, intervention, and evaluation processes.
For further details, please contact James Forbes, Lead Practice Educator, or Dr Lisa Gilmour, Therapy Team Lead (Sowenna), Tel: 01208 834234.
Main duties of the job
Communication and Working Relationships
* Liaising and working in partnership with other professionals and families of the people we support.
* Maintaining relationships and liaising regularly with the Quality Assurance and Practice Department.
* To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment and intervention with service users alongside the multidisciplinary team.
* Work alongside teams to develop intervention plans; monitor and evaluate their effectiveness.
* Communicate with a range of people on a range of matters in a form that is appropriate to them and the situation. This will include developing and maintaining communication with people about difficult matters and/or in difficult situations.
* Effectively communicate using a range of skills to manage barriers to effective communication and adhere to information requirements relating to current legislation, policies and procedures.
Management and Personal Development
* Being responsive to service crisis and pro-active in supporting and coaching change.
* Advising on best practice and providing practice leadership and coaching to employees and managers, including providing direct support.
* Provide leadership within the support staff teams in the provision of positive behaviour support, as well as maintaining positive working relationships with colleagues.
* To engage in continuing professional development activity.
* To be a reflective practitioner, seeking appropriate professional support and guidance.
* To keep updated on relevant research within the field of mental health and behaviours that challenge.
* To report to clinical supervisor for Positive Behaviour Support supervision on a regular basis, including participation in caseload supervision, formal appraisal and management supervision.
* To participate in clinical and line management supervision.
* Provide consultation to direct care staff and shift leaders in PBS.
* Support training in PBS, including individual coaching, as agreed.
Clinical Activities
* Undertaking assessments, including functional assessments, and providing guidelines and advice on supporting people with challenging behaviour, the clinical responsibility remains with the Clinical Lead.
* Delivering training in positive behaviour support and person-centred active support.
* Support the teams to improve quality of life of the people supported through goal setting with a particular focus on skills teaching.
* To support MDTs to produce PBS plans following good practice guidance in this area.
* Lead on development and implementation of restrictive intervention reduction plans.
* To support the design and provide PBS interventions based on comprehensive behavioural assessment and formulation.
* To support the provision of competency-based training and support to staff teams in the identified services to ensure skilled implementation of PBS and person-centred active support to achieve positive changes in the quality of life of people with mental health difficulties.
* To ensure that recommended interventions are relevant, practical and sustainable.
* To evaluate the implementation and impact of interventions.
* To attend and contribute to appropriate multiple discipline meetings.
* Recognise and report situations where there might be a need for protection and safeguarding.
* Assess environment, support skills, person, and identify strengths and limitations to implementing plans and feed this into the planning process.
* Use data to inform Positive Behaviour Support planning, working alongside colleagues within the MDT.
* To contribute to assessment and devise reduction plans in relation to restrictive practice.
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