Positive Behaviour Support Worker

Positive Behaviour Support Worker

Wiltshire

Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw)

Pay £13.21 per hour (salary £25,838 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

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 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 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. 

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 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 patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to J'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 got Makaton, but that’s not a deal breaker!

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.

Our team

You’ll join Deb, our Registered Manager who’s been with Home Group for over 8 years now and has a clinical background as a nurse.

She’s a people-person caring for customers and colleagues alike.

Deb also loves a house full of family at home and loves to cook for them all although they may not all ...