Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Worker (Learning Disability/STOMP)

This is a rare opportunity to join our friendly Community Learning Disability Team in North Tyneside. Our team is a large well established and supportive multi-disciplinary team offering holistic health care support to children and adults who have a learning disability living in North Tyneside.

We are looking for staff who are passionate about working within a multidisciplinary team to provide support, safe medication reviews in line with STOMP (stopping over medication of people with a learning disability and autism with psychotropic medicines). This national programme aims to address concerns about the use of psychotropic medications by providing information about non-pharmacological interventions and practical ways of supporting people with Learning Disabilities and Autism to reduce the amount of medication they need and ensuring that health professionals involve people, their families and support staff in decisions about medications.

The ideal candidate will have an understanding of National and Local Policies relating to STOMP and the management of working with people who present with behaviours that challenge as well as experience of working within a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework.

In North Tyneside, CLDT is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It is a multi-disciplinary team managed along with services provided by the Local Authority.

Building on the current CLDT enhanced community services provision , this post within STOMP will facilitate and offer assessment, intervention, and training to ensure adults who have a learning disability, complex behavioural and mental health needs, stay well and have a good quality of life.

This post involves supporting nurses with a range of clinical activities including: monitoring service users behaviour, physical health and mental health. In addition carry out assessments,interventions and managing risk in the community.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about working in collaboration with service users, their family, carers and professional colleagues including liaising and working in collaboration within the multi-disciplinary work force. The candidate will aim to enhance the health and well-being of service users, prevent the use of inappropriate medication, with the aim of improving quality of life and health outcomes.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

• Implementation of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plans to provide support to patients, carers and care providers to reduce or prevent challenging behaviour.
• Offer in-reach and outreach support and implement timely interventions when there is deterioration in a service user's condition. By working with staff and the service user within their home support is offered through assessment, interventions and practical hands-on support.
• Carry out observations to inform care and PBS planning.
• Perform physical health observations (i.e. height, weight, Blood Pressure).
• Facilitate health promotion.
• Supporting qualified staff with the STOMP caseload.