University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner - Positive Behaviour Support Team
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Mental Health Practitioner - Positive Behaviour Support Team
The Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Team
The Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) team is a specialist support service for children and young people (CYP) presenting to the paediatric wards of UHDB with complex social and/or emotional (mental health) needs and distressed behaviours. The service aims to understand the CYP's individual needs and develop personalised plans that support safe, co-ordinated and consistent care during their stay and transition beyond the hospital.
The PBS Team is multidisciplinary. It sits within the Clinical Psychology Department and is Psychology led. The team comprises of a Clinical Psychologist, Mental Health Practitioners, Specialist Eating Disorder Nurses and an Assistant Psychologist. Staff have experience and additional training in person-centred approaches, mental health and positive behaviour support.
The team operates within a PBS framework and promotes least restrictive practice. A large focus of the work is on assessing individual needs; increasing meaningful engagement; adapting environments; developing skills; providing psychoeducation; and improving wellbeing/quality of life to support the reduction of distress behaviours. In addition to direct work with CYP and their families, the team offers staff support, advice/consultation and training to the professional network. The team work within local safeguarding Children procedures and have a duty to respond to areas of concern relating to the protection of CYP.
The mental health practitioner role is patient-facing within the paediatric children's wards at the Royal Derby Hospital and Queen's Hospital Burton. The post holder will provide and co-ordinate care primarily of CYP admitted to the paediatric wards whose behaviours pose additional challenges. They require strong team and multi-agency working skills and will work in close communication with appropriate colleagues in health, education, social services, and voluntary agencies.
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You Will Also Be Required To
- Offer individualised evidence-based biopsychosocial assessment and intervention to CYP and families and contribute to multi-agency working to ensure safe and effective care in relation to their complex needs and presenting risks.
- Make clear plans of care and contribute to wider decisions on how best to support CYP during their acute hospital admission.
- Support staff to identify and manage risks within the acute environment within a least restrictive framework.
- Contribute to complex clinical discussions around individual's needs and diagnoses.
- Support staff in adopting trauma-informed approaches and making reasonable adjustments around presenting needs including neurodevelopmental conditions.
- Advise staff, contribute to staff training programmes and support quality improvement projects and service developments within the Trust.
The PBS team operates Monday-Friday predominantly between the hours of 9am-5pm.
Closing date: 16 July 2026
Interview date: 29 July 2026
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
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Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In Return We Will Offer
- Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
- On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.
Key Facts
- We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
- We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
- An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
- Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
- Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
- We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
- We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
- UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Positive Behaviour Support Team
- Job title: PBS Team
- Email address: uhdb.positivebehavioursupport@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01332 785407
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