Positive Behaviour Support Team Leader

Positive Behaviour Support Team Leader

Calne, Wiltshire

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw), working as part of a rota

Pay £13.98 to £14.78 per hour and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Lead Support Worker (known Internally as 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 J) and help them reach their full potential.

J has complex needs including a learning disability and autism.

J is a super intelligent, gentle and calm young man who needs our dedicated and positive team to help him reach his full potential.

J has some sensory processing difficulties, is hypersensitive to sound and wears ear defenders to help him manager his sensitivity.

When stressed or anxious, J can display behaviours that challenge us, and we need you to take the time to get to know him, and be caring, understanding, reassuring and positive.
As part of our team, you'll help J overcome his barriers to help him lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach his true potential.

Typical day as our PBS Team Leader


* Typical day as our Lead Support Worker


* Helping J overcome barriers and help them lead a fulfilling and meaningful life and reach their 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 J 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.


* 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, with a Level 3 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or equivalent.


* 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 challenge 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.


* To help J get out and about, it would be great if you could drive but this is not essential.


* Ideally got Makaton, but that’s not a deal breaker!

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