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Trainee PBS Practitioner Level 5
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Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Level 5
Job Location: Ammanford, SA18 2DR
Employment Type: Full-time, 40 Hours per week
Base Salary: £30,385 - £31,800 Per Annum
Essentials:
The ability to drive is essential for this post.
Qualifications:
- PBS Level 4 (BTEC) or equivalent.
- A degree in Psychology, ABA, Nursing, OT, SLT or similar experience.
- Successful candidates will have a strong understanding of PBS or ABA, and experience of leading a team within the care sector.
- You will also need to understand the care sector regulatory framework, service delivery with excellent working knowledge of the essential standards and statutory inspections in social care.
- You will play a key role in staff development, service delivery, and maintaining care standards.
Benefits
- £500 Refer a Friend bonus.
- DBS check paid
- Social Care Wales registration fee covered.
- Employee health and wellbeing programme
- Comprehensive training and career development
- 33 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays)
- Performance and attendance-related bonus
- On-site parking
- Yearly performance and attendance related bonus
Role and Responsibilities
The PBS Trainee L5 Practitioner will combine both clinical analysis and practical experience in their day-to-day delivery of the role. This position effectively bridges key skills and responsibilities delivered by a L4 Practitioner role with those identified in the L5 Practitioner role, but with significant oversight and supervision.
It will involve a high level of alignment between clinical assessment and practical implementation and will require the ability to apply clinically derived recommendations via intensive modelling, coaching, and mentoring that demonstrates a synthesized understanding of clinical assessment and how this translates to practical implementation.
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Working closely with Service Managers and the PBS Team, the Trainee L5 Practitioner will build on their strong understanding of individual needs and their clinical analysis skills to offer practical support and guidance to colleagues to ensure care is responsive, consistent and aligned with core PBS principles, and informed by data analysis.
Indirect Clinical Roles (activities that support resident care without direct resident interaction):
The Trainee L5 Practitioners will be responsible for the collection and analysis of data and maintaining accurate service documentation as required, including delegation of data collection/updates to L4 Practitioners as required. This includes but is not limited to the following:
- MTS: and other related data collection methods
- Creation and Implementation of Knowledge Tests: Updating of knowledge tests in line with residents evolving needs and preferences. Monitoring of staff awareness of these and compliance with PBS recommendations, with subsequent identification of areas of potential staff training need and development.
- Creation and Implementation of Positive Monitoring: Updating of positive monitoring in line with residents evolving needs and preferences. Monitoring staff compliance with practical implementation of PBS recommendations with subsequent identification of areas of potential training need and development.
- Evaluating efficacy of behavioural interventions: both anecdotal (observational and data driven)
- Data collection for Active Support: to inform the creation of activity planners (such as Reinforcement Inventory, GCPLAR, Activity Profiling and Preference Assessment Analysis)
- Updating SMART Goals to ensure positive outcomes are measured, achieved and evidenced
- Shadowing of L5 Clinical Sessions: provides feedback, observations of areas of targeted work/skill development to target in own practice and disseminate further to core staff
- Completion of Formulation Process (under direct supervision)
- Responsible for regular updates and reviews of PBS Plan
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Direct Clinical Roles:
- Delivering Recommended Behavioural Interventions: coaching and modelling to staff when on the floor on how to deliver behavioural interventions strategies and interventions as decided by the wider PBS/Care Team (using appropriate Behavioural Skills Training/3-Tiered Approach and fading techniques)
- Supporting in allocated numbers: ideally with a view to being able to utilise these opportunities to implement coaching and mentoring during these periods to upskill staff (2:1 opportunity should be prioritised to maximise efficacy in the role).
- Incident Management: Effectively manages and supports staff during times of challenging behavioural incidents
- Promotes least restrictive practises and hierarchy of intervention in line with PBS Recommendation
- Runs ‘my voice meetings’
Operational Roles (as delegated by Line Managers):
- Key Worker Meetings: co-production and collaboration with peers and core staff members to identify areas of need/goals for positive outcomes
- Care Team Updates
- Staff Debriefs
- Daily notes updated: uploaded to Access and shared with Care Teams
- Daily Allocations (input)
- Night routines/handovers
- Incident Reporting/oversight of incident reports as written by support staff
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