Positive Behavioural Support Worker

Role: Positive Behavioural Support Worker Location: Warlingham, Croydon Salary: £18,600 - £19,800 Shifts: Earlies, lates and night shifts (full time) 39 hours per week About us: We are passionate about supporting people with complex needs or challenging behaviours and enabling them to achieve their personal best in life. We run on a not-for-profit basis and ensure that all the income we receive is reinvested back into our services and employees. We do this as we have a selfless ethos and have a key vision to ensure EVERYONE has the opportunities to be active in their local community. Due to this we are highly regarded as specialists in the social care industry Where Will I Be Working? We are searching for influencing individuals to come and work in our brand new service in Warlingham. There are 4 flats in which we support people with Autism and Learning Disabilities with behaviours that can be complex and challenging. We strive to re-connect our service users within the local community where-by some have previously had long-term stays in hospitals. What will I be doing? Positive behaviour support is a behaviour management system used to understand what maintains an individual's challenging behaviour. This means creating physical and social environments that are supportive and teaching our service users new skills to replace the behaviours that are challenging. In a nut-shell you will be supporting our clients with personal care and everyday activities in and around the community and their flats using positive behavioural support approaches. This involves understanding why our residents behave in a complex way and helping them to learn new skills on how to replace these behaviours. Why Work For Us? In 2017 we were awarded a silver accreditation by Investors in People for demonstrating a strong commitment to high performance through great people management. This means you are in very competent hands and that we are strongly committed in supporting our staff. We will train you at the start of your journey with us and continually as you develop. You'll have regular supervision meetings with you manager to ensure you are progressing in line with your ambitions. We are an approved city and guilds centre and offer up to a level 5 qualification in Health and Social Care. Benefits: We pay for your enhanced DBS, you will get 31 days holidays (including bank holidays) which will increase after 2 and 5 years of service and we offer a discount scheme on various high street shops. We also give you the usual such as a pension scheme. Know a friend that would love to work here too once hired? We have refer a friend bonus of up to £350 (T&C's apply) Please click apply today if interested For more information please give Emily a call on 0117 373 6297 This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89928403