PBS (Positive Behaviour Support) Specialists

Interested in a role supporting autistic children and young people?

Our Integrated Services comprises of dynamic teams of occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and PBS (Positive Behaviour Support) Specialists, working in our education settings. Enhancing quality of life of children and young people with autism and learning disabilities is central to all we do.

We are looking for a PBS Specialist to join the team in this newly formed and growing Emotional Health and Wellbeing (EHW) department. The new team will comprise of PBS Specialists, psychologists, assistant psychologists, and a nurse.

As a PBS Specialist you will be passionate about improving the quality of life of children and young people with autism and learning disabilities. You will provide specialist behavioural assessments and interventions to the children and young people in the setting in which you are primarily based. This will involve undertaking direct assessment and intervention, and indirect assessment and monitoring with class teams with a fluid caseload determined and prioritised by the needs of the cohort.

We are looking for someone that had:

• Experienced in the use of complex methods of functional assessment and intervention
• Board certified behavioural analyst qualification or master's level training in Positive Behaviour Support or equivalent experience
• Implements a range of impactful specialist behavioural assessment and interventions with children and young people with autism, learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge
• Exitances of apply the latest research evidence and evaluative thinking in practice

In return, we offer great benefits including a generous holiday allowance and commitment to continued professional development (CPD), flexible working, home working out of term time and more!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to the young people we work with. Please find our full recruitment and information packs on the link below.

If you would like more information about the role or would like an informal, confidential discussion please contact Stephen Vickers at svickers@ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk 020 8815 5439

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.

Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.