Specialist Behavioural Support Worker

We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Specialist Behavioural Support Worker to join our Learning Disability Service in Newham.

£27,727.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.

Want to feel like you're making a difference? You'll feel at home here.

Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.

Specialist Behavioural Support Workers are responsible for the customer's emotional, psychological wellbeing as well as providing support to help them develop the life skills they require to meet the assessed needs. This will include providing physical, emotional, domestic, and social care. They will work with customers to promote social inclusion and alongside other members of the team to promote independent living, encouraging customers to maximise their skills and choices.

The shift pattern for this role will consist of early shifts (07.00-15.00) and late shifts (14.00 -22.00). Candidates would need to demonstrate flexibility to ensure that they are able to carry out both early & late shifts, including some weekend and bank holiday working.

All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.

For a full job description, please visit our website jobs.lookahead.org.uk and search for the reference REQ005952

What you'll do:

Behaviour Analysis:
Observing and monitoring the customer's behaviours, their duration, intensity, as well as factors that may alleviate or trigger the behaviour
Planning appropriate intervention to modify and resolve the behaviour
Employing superb interpersonal and relationship skills to handle psychological and behavioural changes
Understanding and collaborating with the different support organisations accessible in the community
Exhibiting a concrete basis in behavioural analysis
Presenting and giving feedback to other professionals in a formal setting
Reporting possible cases of abuse, neglect, or endangerment appropriately
Actively participating in the design and review of behavioural intervention plans
Implement behaviour support plans
Measuring goals and objectives of behaviour support plans to ensure they are being met
Communicating with families and care managers regarding customer's progress in the absence of management
Analysing the behavioural interventions to determine their success
Assisting customers in identifying inappropriate behaviours and develop better behaviour alternatives
Assisting newly recruited staff in facilitating behavioural interventions
Maintaining up to date accurate records of customers, service being provided and behavioural data
Assessing a person's preferences and understanding what motivates them
Using strategies to help customers predict, understand, and control their environment and implementing service-wide strategies to support consistent environments
Supporting customers' physical and mental health

What you'll bring:

NVQ Level 2/3 or equivalent or experience in the social care/charity sector
Minimum 2 years of experience working with customers with Autism/Challenging Behaviour/learning disabilities
Good IT skills
Training or experience with PBS Approach and Capable Environments framework

About us:

Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 120 services, providing support to around 6000 customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.

We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values: We focus on Excellence and innovation. We are Caring and Compassionate. We are Inclusive and Trusted. We work in Partnership and are One-Team.

Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date. We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.