Hours:37.5
Salary:£23,595 to £25,000Annum (Higher rate subject to applicant holding relevant Level 4 qualifications)
Overview of the role
This role is ideal for a graduate and a great way to start a career within the psychology field! We will train and mentor you to become a highly skilled professional. This supportive and dynamic team focuses on developing person-centred strategies that help individuals to lead full lives in the community.
Candidates should have experience working with people who have complex needs and a commitment to providing positive behaviour support. You may also have a degree in psychology, but this is not essential. A full UK driving licence and access to a car is essential as you will be visiting the services and homes on a weekly basis.
Key duties
Under supervision, you will:
· Undertake behavioural assessments, including interviews with service users and staff, use of structured assessment tools, and analysis of behavioural data.
· Develop person centred interventions, drawing on assessment and formulation of service user need.
· Contribute to developing and reviewing risk assessment and management plans.
· Support the long-term implementation, monitoring and evaluation of PBS across the service by regularly reviewing progress with service users and staff teams.
· Work alongside staff teams, providing role modelling to support delivery of PBS based interventions.
· Provide intensive hands-on support when required e.g. during times of crisis, to support new admissions, or to test new interventions and approaches.
· Gather behavioural outcome data and report this on a regular basis both verbally and in written reports to ensure progress is monitored.
· Attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings such as Care and Treatment Plan reviews.
· Support the delivery of staff training on an individual and group basis across different staff groups, including the development and review of training resources and materials.
· Undertake some low-intensity interventions with service users where appropriate (e.g. psychoeducational work).
Personal attributes
Qualifications and knowledge
· QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent.
· BTEC Level 4 Certificate in Positive Behavioural support OR a clear commitment to undertake Level 4 on appointment.
· Working knowledge of legal frameworks including Mental Capacity Act/DOLS and Safeguarding.
· A Full UK Driving License and access to a car is essential as you will be visting servies and homes on a weekly basis. The company will contribute to mileage for work related travel.
Experience
Experience of:
· Working directly with people with learning disabilities and/or complex mental health needs in either a health, educational or social care context.
· Working with individuals who engage in behaviours that challenge.
· Working within a PBS framework. Understands the key elements of Positive Behavioural Support, including its values base, core components and underpinning processes.
· Implementing Active Support and least restrictive practice.
Aptitude and abilities
· Ability to empathise and relate to individual with communication difficulties and complex psychological needs who may express their needs through behaviours that challenge.
· Evidence of IT skills and ability to contribute to high quality written reports, PowerPoint presentations, as well as inputting data to Excel and producing graphs etc on a regular basis.
· Ability to show empathy and compassion for others, being able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.
What are the benefits?*
* Learning Academy - Adult Care Worker Level 2 and Lead Adult Care Worker Level 3 qualifications for all staff
* Enhanced holiday entitlement - starting from 30 days inclusive of Bank Holidays
* Sick pay entitlement
* Employee Assistance Programme - comprehensive health and wellbeing support for staff
* Refer a friend scheme - enjoy a payment of £500 when you recruit a friend to Choice Care
* Choiceversary - staff receive vouchers of £75 after 5 years, £100 after 10 years and £150 after 15 years to celebrate their commitment to Choice Care
* Christmas bonus - vouchers for all staff members
* Life insurance
* Annual staff awards - this year each winner received £400 and we had over 30 winners in total
* Complex in-housetraining - this includes our Advanced Management Development Programme for managers in the making and our Foundation Management Development Programme for rising stars
* A paid day off onyour birthday
* Blue Light Card eligibility
* Reclaim prescription costs for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and accessfree feminine hygiene products whilst on shift
* Free training with external academic providers
* Annual training allowance
*minimum serviceperiods and apprenticeship funding eligibility applicableto some benefits
Who are we?
Choice Care is one of the UK’s leading residential care providers for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions. With over 30years’ experience, we’re at the forefront of national best practice, with among thehighest CQC ratingsof any comparable organisation. We are also proud to be one of the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employersfor the second year in a row!
Our homes are more than just a place to live, they’re like a second family for everyone we support. Each home is a close knit community, with its own unique personality, and all the ups and downs of typical family life, built on trust and the promise of unconditional care. Our colleagues build close bonds with the people they care for, helping to create enduring, positive relationships that build confidence and self-esteem.
In every Choice Care home there’s a strong emphasis on living life to the full and having fun, with purposeful daily activities based on individual preferences and capabilities. Alongside this there areregular social events, projects, outings and holiday breaks which everyone canget involved in and express themselves through.
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