Positive Behaviour Support Worker

Support Worker

Swindon, Wiltshire

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)

Starting salary £24,664 pa, (£12.61 per hour), plus great benefits including health cash plan! Additional Sleep-in and On-Call enhancements

Home, a place where you belong 

Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Support Worker (known Internally as Positive Behavioural Support Worker).

You’ll join our team to provide person-centred and strengths-based support to our customer (let's call them S) and help them reach their full potential. 

S has complex needs, including a moderate learning disability and autism.  S is an intelligent, independent, chatty, super direct young lady who is really into gaming, TV, the outdoors and animals, and she loves her spending time with her family, food, and her plushies!

Typical day as our Support Worker


* Helping S overcome barriers and help her lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach her true potential.


* Recognising their strengths and abilities and help them take the small steps at their pace, never losing sight of their dreams and aspirations!


* Supporting S using Positive Behavioural Support model to promote independence and social inclusion through person centred support.


* Monitoring our customers’ mental and physical health to identify any signs of deterioration and take positive risk management to their health and wellbeing


* With the help of our Team Leaders and clinical team, you’ll help S to participate in her favourite things as well as trying new things through positive risk taking.


* You’ll work alongside colleagues providing a consistent approach when S is finding things difficult as well as find creative ways to help her participate in daily living activities to increase her independence.

S has some sensory processing difficulties, and can react strongly to touch, both in positive and negative ways, as well as being sensitive to strongly smelling toiletries.

When stressed or anxious, S may challenge us, and we’ll make sure you are trained to a high standard to manage on those occasions should they occur.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the Top 10 Great Places to Work in the UK!

You have


* Experience in a Complex Care setting, with a Level 2 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or are prepared to work towards it.


* Worked as a Support Worker, supporting people with complex needs, or behaviours of distress.


* A great insight and passion for promoting independence and social inclusion through person centred approach.


* A patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to S's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when they challenge us.


* Experience of positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.


* Ideally understand Makaton, but that’s not a deal...