# Behaviour Support Practitioner

**Company**: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Denmark Hill
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £47,951 to £56,863 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are excited to advertise for a Behaviour Support Practitioner to work in the Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Service (MHLD) in Lambeth.

You will be expected to work directly and indirectly with people with learning disabilities, families, and carers providing person-centred specialist behavioural assessments and interventions, using a Positive Behavioural Support approach.

You will be part of a well-established community-based MDT and wider staff group of Psychologists and Behavioural Support Practitioners across the MHLD service.

You will provide clinical interventions that are focused on the person and the whole network.

You will deliver support within the person's home and community as required.

**Main duties of the job**

As a Specialist Practitioner Behaviour Support Practitioner within Lambeth Mental Health & Learning Disability Service (MHLD), you will be a member of a multi-disciplinary community team working together primarily to:

- Provide applied behavioural assessment and intervention for clients who present behaviour that challenges services and poses risks to their well-being, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.

- Employ the principles of Positive Behavioural Support in all aspects of clinical work.

- Participate in strengthening local services and developing capable environments though training, consultation and modelling.

**Responsibilities**

- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.

- To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.

- To participate in service evaluation, audit and research.

- To work as an autonomous professional within professional and Trust guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.

- To plan and facilitate staff training and teaching, and presentations as appropriate.

**Benefits**

- Flexible working requests and job share requests are welcomed.

- Opportunities for CPD and contributing to teaching, training and/or supervision initiatives.

**Requirements**

- Experience and knowledge of applied behavioural assessment and treatment of clients with a range of needs of a complex nature.

- Experience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities.

- Experience and knowledge of the practice of Positive Behavioural Support.

- Bachelor's Degree followed by PG Diploma in Applied Behaviour Analysis, or Analysis.

- Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to effective team functioning and holding team roles.

- Ability to manage emotionally stressful situations.

- Ability to manage verbal aggression and hostility directed at self.

**Desirable**

- Lived experience of mental health or learning disabilities challenges.

- Skills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups.

## Skills

### Required
- Applied Behavioural Assessment
- Positive Behavioural Support
- Multi-disciplinary team working
- Emotional stress management
- Verbal aggression management

### Nice to have
- Lived experience of mental health or learning disabilities challenges
- Teaching and training skills

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