Specialist Behavioural Support Worker - Newham, United Kingdom - Look Ahead Housing and Care

Look Ahead Housing and Care
Look Ahead Housing and Care
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Newham, United Kingdom

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Job profile:


  • The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
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Job details:
Job details:

Job reference

  • REQ00490
  • Date posted
  • 12/07/202 Application closing date
  • 12/08/202 Location
  • Newham
  • Salary
- £ per annum

  • Package
  • Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
  • Contractual hours
  • 40
  • Basis
  • Full time
  • Job category/type
  • Full Time, Permanent
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Specialist Behavioural Support Worker:

Job description

  • We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient
    Specialist Behavioural Support Worker to join our Learning Disabilities service in Newham.

£25,206.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week. _Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, _staff discounts, healthcare and career progression._

Want to feel like you're part of one team? You'll feel at home here.

Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team.

After all, our people are doing something amazing:
helping to transform lives every day.

  • This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation._

What you'll do:


Specialist Behavioural Support Workers are responsible for the customer's emotional, psychological wellbeing as well as providing support to help them develop the life skills they require to meet the assessed needs.

At Nimrod House, this will include providing physical, emotional, domestic, and social care.

They will work with customers to promote social inclusion and alongside other members of the team to promote independent living, encouraging customers to maximise their skills and choices.


About you:


Behaviour Analysis:


  • You are liable to observing and monitoring the customer's behaviours, the duration, the intensity, and the damage, as well as factors that may alleviate or trigger the behaviour.
  • You are responsible in planning appropriate intervention to modify and resolve the behaviour.
  • You require superb interpersonal and relationship skills and must have the capacity to handle psychologically behavioural changes.
  • You understand and collaborate with the different support organizations accessible in the community.
  • You exhibit a concrete basis in behavioural analysis.
  • You will have ability and skill to present and feedback to other professionals in a formal setting.
  • Reports possible cases of abuse, neglect, or endangerment appropriately.
  • Actively participates in the reviewing and the designing behavioural interventions plans.
  • Implements behaviour support plans.
  • Measures goals and objectives of behaviour support plans to ensure they are being met.
  • Communicates with parents and care managers regarding customer's progress in the absence of management.
  • Analyses the behavioural interventions to determine their success.
  • Assists customers in identifying inappropriate behaviours and develop better behaviour alternatives.
  • Assists newly recruited staff in facilitating behavioural interventions.
  • Maintains up to date accurate records of customer's, service being provided and behavioural data.

Other Responsibilities:


  • If a need arises, deliver all aspects of support to enable a customer to develop independent living skills as appropriate to the individual needs of the customer. In some services, this will include delivering personal and physical care as appropriate.
  • Support customers to undertake all domestic tasks wherever possible, including practical assistance where they have not yet developed the skills, to ensure customers enjoy a high quality of accommodation.
  • Participate in the support planning and risk management, as facilitated by the lead Support Worker.
  • Carry out security duties to ensure the safety of the customers and premises.
  • Monitor the CCTV throughout the shift.
  • Enable customers to make full use of community facilities by providing support as directed.
  • Carry out support duties to enable customers to integrate into the community including e.g., accompanying the customer to attend benefit agency appointments and meetings, go shopping, to enquire at colleges about possible courses, to visit various public amenities.
  • Report any observations relating to customers welfare.
  • Adhere to all the policies and procedures of Look Ahead Care, Support & Housing plus those specific to the project including any statutory requirements.
  • Ensure Look Ahead Health and Safety policies and local protocols are always adhered to.
  • Maintain records as required at the project under the direction of the support workers / management.
  • Participate in team meetings/reviews
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