Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner
This is a {Advertised Permanent / Temporary}, {Advertised Full Time / Part Time} vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Are you a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) professional passionate about empowering people with learning disabilities, autism, and complex needs? Do you thrive on supporting care and support teams to deliver person-centred interventions that truly make a difference?
We’re excited to offer a brand-new PBS Practitioner role at NCHA – one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ 2024, officially recognised for Wellbeing and Women in the Workplace by Great Place to Work UK. Take a look at our working life, benefits, and values, to see why 77% of our colleagues say it is a great place to work.
The Role
As a PBS Practitioner, you will work collaboratively across the East Midlands to deliver high-quality, evidence-based Positive Behaviour Support to individuals with learning disabilities, mental health conditions, and autism in supported living and care home environments.
You will ensure all interventions align with PBS frameworks, contractual obligations, and sector best practices. Your work will focus on promoting placement stability, reducing restrictive practices, and enhancing the overall quality of life for the people we support. You will also Advocate and recommend best practice and strategies to minimise behaviours of concern and reduce incidents supporting the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
Some of the main duties of the role include:
- Taking a leading role in implementing PBS, reducing restrictive practices and ensuring that we work within regulatory requirements, national policy and sector best practice guidance.
- Managing an active caseload across several our services in the East Midlands, including completing functional behavioural assessments and the development of PBS plans tailored to individual needs.
- Co-creating proactive, person-centred interventions focusing on skill-building, environmental adaptation, and improved quality of life.
- Provide urgent reactive PBS strategies when crises arise, minimising placement breakdowns.
- Model PBS in practice by coaching support teams and delivering bespoke training sessions to empower teams.
- Deliver clinical supervision to staff teams and individual practitioners, embedding PBS and trauma-informed approaches into everyday practice.
- Facilitate incident debrief sessions—ensuring learning, emotional support, and clear action planning following incidents.
- Work closely with multi-disciplinary teams, families, social workers, therapists, and commissioners to ensure coordinated, person-centred care.
Please refer to the Role Profile to learn more about the role.
"In this kind of work, the more you put in, the more you can get out of it. The progression options are there if you’re willing to work hard [...] The management are brilliant and are so supportive. If you want to learn and develop in your role, they’ll support you and give you opportunities to progress" - NCHA colleague
What we are looking for
Our ideal candidate is a resilient PBS professional with experience influencing and supporting staff teams. You will be a compassionate, solution focused professional who has experience providing person-centred support for people with learning disabilities, autism and complex behaviour. You must have a good understanding of regulatory, legislative and compliance requirements, as well as legal frameworks such as the Mental Capacity Act (2005) and DOLS.
As an excellent communicator, both verbally and written, you will have the ability to work under pressure while remaining calm. IT skills and confident and confident use of computerised systems are required for this role. We are looking for someone with strong statistical abilities to be able to translate and analyse complex data.
Other Requirements: a valid driving Licence and access to a car.
Working Hours
You will be working alongside Support Workers due to the nature of the role so you will need to be available and have flexibility to work under project rotas, and to attend Clifton Place for trainings and meetings when needed.
USEFUL TIPS:
- You will need to attach a CV in order to apply for this role.
- All correspondence will be via your registered email address.
- View the full Role Profile in the document tab at the top of the page and refer to the Person Specification section of the Role Profile to complete your application – show us why you are suitable!
- For more information about NCHA, please refer to the attached ‘Helping Our Customers’– get a better idea of what we do across the organisation!
NCHA strives to be a welcoming and inclusive employer as such we particularly welcome applicants from ethnic minority communities, LGBTQ+ communities, women, as they are currently under-represented within our workforce.
Please note that we are not currently offering visa sponsorship.
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The Company
We’re Nottingham Community Housing Association, known to many as NCHA. We’ve been around since 1973, and we're really proud of that. We're more than just a housing association: we deliver care and support to people all over the East Midlands. Read our story to find out more about us.
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