Positive Behaviour Support Worker

At Aspens, a highly regarded charity, we work across Kent and Sussex; supporting individuals with autistic spectrum conditions, learning disabilities and physical disabilities. We offer residential care, supporting living, day activities and a fantastic community outreach programme. Working closely with people we support a key part of your role. Within our PBS services we need to ensure that there is a high level on understanding of each individual's needs. Allowing us to ensure they are living the most independent and active life possible. Some of the people we support have specific guidelines in place that need to be followed, this allows them to understand their day and develop independent living skills, with limited distress to the individual. Within our Aspens PBS services, we ensure that the PWS have access to the community, ensuring their personal wants and needs are met. As support workers, we need to ensure that the residents are fulfilling activities of their choice. This could be from going swimming or bike riding to completing their food shopping or visiting a castle. There are a variety of activities that the PWS and their support worker could be involved in. Here at Aspens, we ensure that all staff members are competent in their roles. This includes training on and off of site, such as NAPPI. This training ensures that confidence is remained throughout behaviours that challenge- shouting, hitting, grabbing, throwing objects. We also allow staff to complete L3 accredited PBS qualifications, to help understand why behaviours could be presenting in a manor. Supervision is also completed regularly with your line manager; this allows everyone to discuss both strengths and area of improvement throughout the role. All of these ensures staff to remain confident throughout their role, allowing constant interaction with PWS. We are currently seeking a dedicated PBS Support Worker to join our fantastic staff team. Due to the nature of the people we support, there are times when behaviours of concern do arise and so it is vital that you are able to stay calm in a challenging situation whilst remaining positive and professional. Aspens offer career progression alongside vocational qualifications, we encourage staff development and aim to promote from within the organisation where we can.