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Clinical Consultant

Salary: £38,000 to £45,000 per annum pro-rata (negotiable dependent on position and experience)

Location: Regional role working across all PBS4 locations including Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Somerset, Berkshire and Oxfordshire

Hours Per Week: 15 hours per week

Employment Type: Temporary or fixed term contract (depending upon preference)

Are you a UKBA(Cert) looking for a role where you can truly make a difference to the lives of the people we support? Come and join us to make a change!

About us

PBS4 provide values led neurodisability support services to people in their own homes. We support individuals who may engage in behaviours that challenge using Positive Behaviour Support. We support individuals living in their own homes with their own tenancies and provide additional external consultancy and training support.

PBS4 provides support to a network of people across multiple locations including, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Somerset and we are continuing to grow in local counties.

The people we support overcome huge challenges every day to achieve exciting things. Some may be big, some may be smaller, but we are committed to celebrating all of these!

We are committed to leading by example in how 21st Century clinical support for people with learning disabilities should look. We aim to raise the bar of Positive Behaviour Support in social care!

The role

We are looking for a Clinical Consultant to provide clinical input and leadership in Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) to primarily lead on developing our external clinical consultancy and training offer but also to provide internal clinical oversight and supervision to our existing team members and people we support. This will be through working directly with people we support or through consultancy, providing training and providing management and supervision to members of the clinical team. We have a strong clinical team, and we are looking for exceptional candidates to add to this strength.

Our aim is to change the world for the individuals we support and challenge the world of PBS in the UK. We want people who can join us in driving these changes. Some examples of the developments PBS4 have been central in have included organising the PBS Festival, developing and supporting PBS networks locally, supporting the RCN Learning Disability Forum, and supporting the work of the UK Society of Behaviour Analysis. We need strong candidates to join us in order to continue our pioneering work.

We have a high density of support within our clinical team, and the clinical team are a hugely valued resource in our organisation, with evidence-based approaches being a priority for the people we support. The direct clinical input, using evidence-based practice, is the cornerstone to what we do. You will make life-changing improvements for the people we support, and career-changing support to our employees.

This role will be a 12 month fixed term contract but dependent on growth of the organisation there may be options for extending this.

Essential:

• You will already be a Certified UK Behaviour Analyst/UKBA(Cert)
• You will have met the requirements with the UK-SBA for providing supervision
• You will share our passion for ensuring Positive Behaviour Support is delivered to the highest quality, setting the standards internally and for others who aspire to achieve

what we are achieving.

• You will be able to lead the implementation of PBS in the social care we provide.
• You will have experience utilising PBS with adults and children with learning disabilities and/or autism.
• You will be a car driver, able to support all of our teams across the organisation.
• You will be independently driven, able to identify your own priorities and priorities for your team.
• Able to complete functional behaviour assessments and develop function-based PBS Plans.
• You will work in partnership with people we support, their families, and other organisations, including NHS teams and Local Authorities.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in supported living, social care settings.
• Experience of providing consultancy and training support.
• Experience working a behaviour consultant with individuals with mental health diagnosis.
• Confidence in presenting and disseminating our work.
• Experience in providing clinical and line management supervision.
• Experience of delivering training to others.
• Experience in developing and implementing policy and strategy, to support our Senior Operations Team to achieve the cultures we aspire to create and uphold.

Why work for us?

• Be part of an organisation driving what quality PBS looks like and how social care, should be delivered.
• Work for an organisation where the focus is the people we support.
• Have your voice heard and respected, and have your expertise valued.
• Have support from an experienced clinical and managerial team.
• Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support.
• Play a key role in bringing teams together and leading direct support.
• Have training opportunities that enhance your development.

What’s in it for you…

Asides from a role that empowers people and transforms lives, our benefits to you include: bespoke in-house training, access to Continuing Professional Development (CPD), access to clinical supervision, and professional networks, Employee Assistance Programme, access to Key Worker benefits and our employee recognition scheme.