Head of Behaviour Support

Role Description

Location:

Remote & Traveling when required around the South of England

Salary: £64,272 per annum + £5000 car allowance plus benefits

Hours:

Full time, 37.5 Hours per week

Contract:

Permanent

Sector:
Charity, Health & Social Care, Learning Disabilities & Autism

Do you have experience leading Positive Behaviour Support services and supporting multi-disciplinary teams to deliver outstanding outcomes?

Can you demonstrate how you have embedded person-centred approaches that increase choice, control, and independence for the people you support?

Are you confident influencing stakeholders at all levels, building strong partnerships, and driving positive change?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Behaviour Support, who has the drive and passion in their thoughts and actions on coordinating the best practice that will meet the health and social care needs of the individuals we support.

This role offers the chance to influence and develop specialist clinical services that make a genuine difference to the lives of people with learning disabilities, autism, physical disabilities, and sight loss. We are seeking someone who can combine strategic leadership with hands-on clinical expertise to drive best practice, support innovation, and ensure outstanding outcomes for the people we support.

See Ability is a specialist registered charity with a proud 226-year history of supporting people with autism, learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and visual impairments.

Our values are centred on inclusion, personalisation, and empowering people to develop skills that promote greater independence. We are committed to breaking down barriers and creating opportunities that enable people to live active, fulfilling lives and achieve the outcomes that matter most to them.

Reporting into senior leadership, you will lead our specialist clinical team and guide the delivery and development of Positive Behaviour Support services across the organisation.

This is a pivotal role at an exciting time for See Ability. Our vision is to continue building an integrated multi-disciplinary clinical team, currently comprising:

• Positive Behaviour Support Consultants
• Vision Rehabilitation Workers

with plans to expand further into:

• Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT)
• Sensory-based Occupational Therapy (OT)

You will be responsible for ensuring high-quality, outcome-focused and person-centred clinical services, while helping shape the future direction of specialist support within See Ability.

• Deliver a fully integrated range of efficient, outcome focussed and person-centred specialist clinical services to those we support ensuring up-to-date record keeping and effective caseload management.
• The development of Positive Behaviour Support Plans, working with PBS consultants to embed these within the support teams within the homes of the people we support.
• Whilst the PBS consultants will receive clinical supervision externally, your leadership will be essential in maintaining professional competence and a focus on the developments in the field of positive behaviour support.
• Design, implement and monitor Positive Behaviour Support interventions that improve quality of life and minimize or eliminate behaviour that challenges.
• Deliver training on topics which relates to behaviour support. This will include delivering theoretical and practical training on physical interventions using PROACT-SCIPr-UK values-based approaches and philosophy.
• Monitor quality aspects and identify where gaps exist in clinical provision and staff knowledge and develop cost effective solutions to fill these gaps.
• Provide leadership to and support a…