Job summary

The Community Learning Disabilities Team on the Isle of Wight are seeking applications from highly motivated individuals to work as a Behaviour Analyst within the Intensive Support Team. This a permanent, full-time position.

In this role, you will lead the clinical pathway work within the Intensive Support Team (IST) in providing a high standard of specialist and highly skilled approach to understanding why behaviours of concerns are being exhibited and the provision of person specific strategies to enhance quality of life. You will lead in promoting Positive Behaviour Support across the service, and be responsible for co-ordinating and overseeing the work, influencing clinical decisions, and monitoring the quality of patient care provided.

Please contact Richard Thomas for more information. We look forward to receiving your applications!

Main duties of the job

*To undertake and contribute to specialist assessments of service users referred to the team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including; historical information, Functional Assessment, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client's care.

*To formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of a client's presenting problems, based upon a behavioural conceptualisation of the client's situation, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.

*To be responsible for implementing a range of interventions based on Positive Behaviour Support for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining clinical formulations drawing upon Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.

*Respond to urgent situations and unpredictable service user needs across a range of situations.

*Act as an advocate on behalf of the individual service users and where possible promote self-advocacy, within the boundaries of the professional's role.

*Establish and maintain positive professional relationships with service users, family, and carers.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence