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Alongside an incredible team of like-minded peers, you'll be working behind-the-scenes to support our staff, volunteers, families, and supporters. You will be helping our work happen across the charity; enabling us to care for and champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support.
Hours: 37.5Hours per week
Contract: Full Time
Salary: £43,753.38 prorated to 41weeks
Location: Bridge College, Openshaw Manchester
The Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Team Lead is responsible for overseeing the implementation of PBS across Bridge College. This role involves working collaboratively within a multi‑disciplinary therapeutic team to assess student needs and support their transitions into, within, and out of the College.
Responsibilities
Ensure students are treated with dignity and respect at all times
Communicate in ways that promote partnership and reflect each student's needs, background, understanding and preferred communication style
Lead the day-to-day delivery and line management of the PBS service
Provide line management, supervision, and appraisal to PBS team members
Contribute to collaborative risk assessment and management for young people with complex needs
Support admissions through behavioural information gathering analysis and written reporting
Design, implement, evaluate and adapt individual recording systems tailored to each student
Monitor and evaluate PBS interventions using key performance indicators
Provide coaching, mentoring and practice supervision to staff and professionals supporting individuals with behaviours of concern
Stay up to date with national best practice relating to learning disabilities, neurodiversity, restrictive practices and behaviours that challenge using this to guide service development
About You
A masters level qualification in applied behaviour analysis, positive behaviour support or other relevant discipline such as psychology
Significant experience delivering PBS within a relevant setting
Experience of working across a wide service setting including the following areas: children's services, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, emotional and behavioural disorders (EBD), profound and multiple learning disabilities(PMLD), and individuals with complex health needs
Sound knowledge of working within Ofsted's social care common inspection framework and the care quality commission inspection framework
Excellent interpersonal skills
Experience in directly supporting young people who present with challenging behaviour
Ability to writ individual behaviour plans for young people
Good computer literacy skills including use of word and PowerPoint
willing to become a PROACT-SCIPr
Knowledge of mental capacity act (2005)
Positive attitude, mindset and solution focused.
Benefits
Annual Leave 27 day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
Cycle to work scheme
Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
Proud to be a real living wage employer
Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home
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Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.
If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.