Positive Behaviour Support Team Leader

Positive Behaviour Support Team Leader

Ashford, Kent

Permanent, full time 37.5 hpw, 22.5 admin and 15 hours in service on shift.

 

Pay £13.98 per hour (£27,338 per annum) [pro rata] and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

 

Home, a place where you belong

Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Positive Behavioural Support team Leader.

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

A has complex needs including communication challenges, sensory processing challenges as well as being non verbal.

They are in their early 20s, and are full of energy.

They enjoy a range of activities  such as going to jump and spending time in the garden eating. 

Typical day as our PBS Team Leader


* You’ll manage a team of PBS Support Workers centred around a customer with complex presentation.


* You and your team will support customers with any aspect of their day-to-day living.

You’ll work in a person-centred, strengths-based and psychologically informed way, so they can enjoy the best possible quality of life.


* You’ll be in regular contact with your manager updating, escalating and reporting on all aspects of the service delivery.


* You’ll be responsible for planning and overseeing complex support working with customers who display behaviours of concern and may require personal care working alongside Home Group’s local multi-disciplinary team


* Motivating, directing, guiding, coaching and supporting your team to work with our customers.

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 ten Great Place to Work in the UK! 

You have


* Experience in CQC Regulated services, a Level 4 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or equivalent or prepared to work towards it.


* Worked as a Senior Support Worker, leading support for people with complex needs, or behaviours of distress.


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


* Great people management and motivation skills, bringing colleagues together to share information, best practice and fostering creativity.


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

And ideally got Makaton, but that’s not a deal breaker!


* To help A get out and about, you’ll need to be able to drive a vehicle insured for business purposes.

The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage! 

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review.

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