Behaviour Support Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen to join the Southwark Enhanced Intervention Service (EIS) as a Behaviour Support Practitioner.

As a Behaviour Support Practitioner, you will work in the Southwark Enhanced Intervention Service (EIS).

This is a specialist intensive support team which is attached to the community-based Mental Health Learning Disabilities (MHLD) team, in Southwark.

You will be part of the small multidisciplinary team and the Trust Psychology & Psychotherapy Staff team.

You will work directly with adults, their families and staff teams, carrying out collaborative assessments and interventions, aimed at reducing behaviours that challenge and improving quality of life.

You will have opportunities to work indirectly with peoples' support networks to help enhance skills and knowledge, and be expected to help deliver training and consultation to local support providers.

You will have a focus on preventing hospital admission and placement breakdown.

Behaviour Support Practitioners are valued members of the EIS and MHLD services, and are part of our core provision.

You will have opportunities to develop your skills through regular individual and peer supervision, and be able to make use and contribute to wider Trust training events.

You will be able to work closely with other members of the MDT.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM.

It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that's why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave

package which is dependent on the role and length of service.

Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: parttime working and job sharing.
Career development, there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars.
Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites.
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of wellknown retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants
To provide applied behavioural assessment and intervention for clients who present behaviour that challenges services and poses risks to their wellbeing, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
To employ the principles of Positive Behavioural Support in all aspects of clinical work.
To participate in strengthening local services and developing capable environments though training, consultation and modelling.
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