Board Certified Behaviour Analyst

School & College; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Are you a skilled Behaviour Analyst who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of children and young adults? Join our growing team of experienced Behaviour Analysts and play a vital role in ensuring our pupils receive the best PBS support. This support is crucial to enable them to learn and thrive in school and ensure they have the skills to have the best possible opportunities in adulthood.

Role Purpose:

• Work as part of a trans-disciplinary team to support the delivery of effective and appropriate teaching, learning and behaviour support in all areas of school life as a result of trans-disciplinary working underpinned by an evidence-based behavioural model of practice.
• Responsible for conducting functional assessments and developing comprehensive function based Positive Behaviour Support plans and interventions to reduce behaviour that challenges and monitoring the effectiveness of these plans through development of robust data collection systems and analysis of the data.
• Use evidence-informed practices to develop personalised learning support.
• Conduct a range of assessments including assessment for learning, assessment of learning, admissions assessments, behavioural assessments and assessments of maintenance and generalisation.
• Preparing for and contributing to Person Centred Reviews.
• Working in partnership with parents, colleagues and other professionals to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
• Play an active role in the school’s approach to Positive Handling, becoming a Team-Teach Trainer (training will be provided, however the candidate is required to be open to this training) and provide training, support and advice to all staff in Abbey School to ensure any use of restrictive intervention is used in accordance with the law and clear ethical values and embedded within comprehensive proactive plans to reduce restriction.

The ideal candidate must meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.

How to Apply:

If you believe you have the right qualities to join our vibrant, innovative, and exceptional school as a Behaviour Analyst, we invite you to complete a school application form, available to download from our website: https://abbeyschool.com/job/board-certified-behaviour-analyst/

The School will complete an online search for all shortlisted candidates. If any incidents or issues have happened that are publicly available online, the school may wish to explore this at interview.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the School is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are ‘spent’ unless ‘protected’ under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, race, sex, pregnancy and maternity, marriage/civil partnerships, religion/belief, or sexual orientation.

Abbey School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Child safer recruitment procedures operate. This role involves regulated activity with children and adults and so an Enhanced DBS with Children and Adult Barred List Checks is required.