Professional Lead PBS Services

Job description

Job responsibilities

1.0Putting People First

1.1 You lead on the professional management of PBS professionals within the Applied Psychology Service, working closely with the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS to take delegated responsibility for specific operational tasks to ensure that the service is effective and well-co-ordinated.

1.2You demonstrate specialist clinical expertise in Positive Behaviour support, assessment, formulation and intervention and demonstrate current understanding of the evidence and research base to ensure that current methods of supporting outcomes in service delivery are embedded.

1.3You provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of people who use our services. To include the broader context of holistic care. You are involved, as appropriate, in pre-admission assessments and transition planning.

1.5 You have excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate complex; condition relatedInformation to the people we support, their families and external agencies

1.6 You ensure that PBS professionals within the Applied Psychology Team receive clinical and professional supervision and mentorship, including setting actions and objectives alongside the Clinical Hub Managers, improving the service/lives of colleagues and the people we support, aligned to policy expectations and the objectives of the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS.

1.7 You have a proven track record of highly advanced clinical skills supporting autistic individuals who have an intellectual disability and often present with behaviours of concern.

1.8 You reflect on and in clinical practice both individually and with peers identifying strengths and providing evidence of sound clinical judgements based on research and evidence-based practice.

1.9 You promote co-production to shape service delivery through ensuring we involve the people we support, families and carers at all levels in their clinical care and seek feedback on our service through the use of satisfaction measures.

2.0Passionate About Quality

2.1 You lead the development and implementation of evidence-based PBS within Applied Psychology services, meeting changing needs in line with other ongoing developments across the wider Group and encourage and support members of the Applied Psychology Team to also do this through regular staff team meetings

2.2 You focus on delivering high-quality standards of record keeping, reports, correspondence, and communication, aligned with Hesley Policy, UKSBA/other professional bodies and National guidance.

2.3You contribute to the development of policies, procedures, and pathways that reflect best practice and national guidance in collaboration with the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS.

2.4You lead on the development of innovations in areas of risk management, quality standards setting and clinical effectiveness in relation to the service provided by PBS professionals within the Applied Psychology Team.

2.5You ensure that PBS professionals within the Applied Psychology team have a consistent visible presence across the group to support and be accessible to staff to improve quality.

2.6 You drive continuous improvement of PBS professionals within the Applied Psychology team through audit, service evaluation and learn from feedback mechanisms and ensure improvement plans are implemented and evaluated.

2.7You identify future workforce requirements and identify changes where required to meet service need and support the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS with the recruitment of PBS professionals within the Applied Psychology team in line with group policies and procedures.

2.8 You work within the organisations KPI model and ensure that PBS professionals within the Applied Psychology team meet all KPI reporting requirements, reporting directly to the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS. Where this is not the case, a rationale will be provided and a plan to move towards meeting the KPI.

2.9You maintain registration as a practicing professional with the UKSBA.

3.0Progress Focused

3.1 You maintain current knowledge of evidence base and good practice through engagement with a variety of opportunities such as conferences, courses, meetings, and special interest groups.

3.2 You attend relevant training and development in order to maintain and develop skills and knowledge required to support clients within their specialist area as identified through the annual IPR development plan with the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS.

3.3 You support workforce development through training, coaching, and professional development initiatives particularly in relation to PBS competencies.

3.4 You contribute to research (internally and externally) and service development projects that enhance outcomes for autistic adults and adults with learning disabilities and share this with the wider community.

3.5 You ensure the adequate clinical supervision of trainee placements within the team and provide clinical education and training to students at graduate level. You provide clinical supervision for staff implementing PBS interventions or completing PBS training.

3.6 You monitor progress through the use of data collection, at an individual, service and organisational level.

3.7. You contribute to strategic initiatives led by the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS, including research, innovation and service development.

4.0Positive About Safety

4.1You ensure robust clinical governance and safeguarding practices are embedded in the PBS component of Applied Psychology service delivery. You escalate clinical risks and concerns appropriately to the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS.

4.2You support risk assessment and management in complex cases involving positive behaviour support and reducing restrictive practice.

4.3You maintain compliance with professional standards, legal frameworks, and regulatory requirements.

4.4You promote a culture of safety, reflection, and learning across PBS professionals within the Applied Psychology team and wider multidisciplinary services.

4.5You are responsible for the security, care and maintenance of team equipment and resources including plans for risk management, infection control and safe handling

4.6You effectively lead, manage and learn from all incident related, complaint led and safeguarding processes involving PBS professionals within the Applied Psychology team alongside the Head of Applied Psychology & PBS, and share the learning with your team and the wider organisation.

4.7You provide constructive feedback to all staff regarding performance through use of policy systems and take remedial actions if performance falls/changes in order to support improvement.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration as a UK behaviour Analyst, UKBA (cert)
• Masters level qualification in ABA/PBS or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) across the career span
• Evidence of other specialist courses or attendance at online learning

Desirable

• Qualification in Leadership and Management

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Essential Knowledge
• To have advanced knowledge of national, regional and local health and social care drivers
• To operate as a highly advanced practitioner with specialist knowledge of learning disability, autism and associated mental health difficulties. To actively provide support and expert advice to other Applied Psychologists and all other stakeholders
• To be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of the clinical evidence base and assessment and intervention approaches specific to the people we support including knowledge of restrictive practice reduction and trauma informed care. Evidence of ability to frequently problem solve through complex, sensitive and highly technical clinical situations
• Experience and knowledge of approaches to support people through situations where there may be high levels of distress, where they may require complex reasoning to solve crisis situations or fluctuations in health needs. To also understand how best to support colleagues through these situations and how to apply reflective learning and development
• To have knowledge of clinical supervisory models and practices.
• An ability and commitment to work proactively as a member of a team and effectively communicate and take a leadership role in the general engagement of teams within workplace.
• An understanding of leadership skills and experiences of supporting colleagues within a leadership role
• To have good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and best interests processes
• Demonstrates understanding of the complex relationship between physical, cognitive, psychological and social dimensions of disability.
• Experience of leading, managing, developing and supervising a team of professional staff. Understanding of professional development and the link to the professional career framework (UKSBA and BACB)
• Essential - Skills and Abilities
• Advanced skills in collecting and analysing complex data and communicating this effectively to others.
• Advanced skill in carrying out functional behavioural assessment.
• Advanced skills in designing and implementing holistic multi-component behavioural interventions.
• Ability to communicate highly complex information to a broad range of individuals and/or groups/family members/teams in a sensitive, appropriate manner
• Ability to make decisions in the face of competing alternatives, at times being able to make these when others may not agree
• Ability to self-evaluate and reflect in and on practice and to support less experienced staff to see the value of such approaches to learning in practice
• Excellent analytical and organisational skills to enable full autonomy within the clinical setting on a day to day basis. Effective and evidenced clinical leadership skills, including ability to organise self and others
• Flexible in thinking and able to take the initiative to make sound and reasoned judgements and decisions. Being able to support more junior colleagues to develop reasoning skills
• Ability to identify, lead and/or contribute to improvements in the quality of the service delivered. To critically analyse the service level need
• Advanced skills in delivering training and presentations including making complex adaptations to these to present to a range of audiences
• Ability to collate and decide on data to formulate safe risk management plans for clinical, high risk, recommendations
• Good understanding of the operational requirements of the service
• Skills to be able to think quickly and decisively but maintaining diplomacy

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working within a range of clinical settings with individuals with complex needs within a range of multi-professional teams. Significant experience with individuals with learning disability and/or autism
• Experience and or involvement in auditing clinical standards within the practice setting
• Experience of developing and implementing medium to long term projects to bring about positive change to the service. Ability to project manage these independently
• Ability to devise, plan and deliver training to colleagues, students, families and adapt delivery style and type to suit the need.
• Ability to negotiate and communicate effectively through complex and challenging situations.
• Skilled in leading service and/or organisation-wide PBS initiatives.
• Extensive experience of developing and delivering PBS training to groups, including introduction and intermediate level training.
• Extensive experience of coaching and mentoring key people, including support staff and service managers.
• Experience of supervising others.

Desirable

• Experience of working within complex and multi-layered organisations
• Experience of presenting self and information that may prove contentious in multi-disciplinary setting.
• Knowledge and experience of organisational behaviour management.
• Experience managing people within a health/social care setting

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Hesley Group

Address

Stripe Road

Tickhill

Doncaster

South Yorkshire

DN11 9HH

Employer's website

https://www.hesleygroup.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)