Behavioural Analysts

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Site Minet Clinic Town Hayes Salary £51,883 - £58,544 pa (pro rata P/T) inc HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 08/04/2025 23:59

Job overview

To provide a qualified specialist behaviour analyst service to children with neurodevelopmental needs and their families across all sectors of care; providing functional assessment and behavioural interventions at the same time as offering advice and consultation on these areas to non-behaviour analyst colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

1. To work with colleagues in the CAMHS Team to provide specialist functional assessments of children with disabilities based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including measures of behaviour, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care, including frontline workers in health, education, social services and the voluntary sector.
2. Together with other members of the CAMHS Team to formulate and implement plans for the formal treatment and/or management of emotional and behavioural difficulties of clients, based upon an applied behaviour analytic framework of the client’s problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
3. To be responsible for implementing a range of behavioural interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining behavioural formulations based on feedback from the implementation of interventions.
4. To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both the theoretical model and highly complex factors concerning historical, environmental and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.

Working for our organisation

Hillingdon CAMHS is based at Minet Clinic, Uxbridge. The team is well established and is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians. We aim to provide an accessible, flexible and responsive local service for patients and professionals working with children in the area using the whole range of therapeutic interventions, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, systemic and family therapies, psychotherapy, psychoeducation and therapy groups and multi-family work.

Hillingdon CAMHS consists of five main sub-teams: Emotional Disorders Team; Neurodevelopmental Team; Enhanced Treatment Team; Learning Disabilities (LD-CAMHS), and; Multi-Agency Psychology Service (MAPS; for children looked after).

The post holder may be required to travel to other parts of the catchment area and / or wider service and trust as necessary, including working within the community (e.g. schools).

The service operates Monday to Friday 09.00 to 17:00 with some flexibility to work extended hours to meet service need.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To collaborate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and with other agencies as appropriate in devising appropriate behavioural treatments for children with disabilities, families and groups.
2. To provide specialist behavioural advice guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to clients’ formulation and treatment plans.
3. To contribute directly and indirectly to a behaviourally based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the service, across all settings and agencies serving the client group.
4. To undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual clients and to provide advice to other professions on behavioural aspects of risk assessment and risk management.
5. To act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans including clients, their carers, referring agents and others involved the network of care.
6. To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, highly sensitive and complex information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress during the course of both uni- and multi-disciplinary care and working with other agencies involved in the client’s care.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Masters level training in Applied Behaviour Analysis or Positive Behaviour Support.
• Adheres to the Behaviour Analyst Certification Board guidelines for professional and ethical conduct.
• Board Certified Behavioural Analyst Qualification.

Experience

• Experience of working with children and young people who have learning disabilities and/or neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Experience of working with a wide range of behaviour that challenges that reflects the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
• Management and Supervision
• Training
• Experience of working in an NHS setting.
• Experience of the application of behaviour analysis in different cultural contexts.

Skills and Competencies

• Understands the need for and able to competently assess risk.
• Understands individual and service safeguarding responsibilities, policy and procedure.
• Experience of designing and implementing discrete skills teaching programmes.
• Experience of teaching and training others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
• Able to undertake complex functional assessments across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and inpatient settings.
• Understands developmental issues for children and able to adapt interventions accordingly.
• Understands the elements of effective engagement and can apply these to working practice.
• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication.
• Able to foster strong therapeutic alliances.
• Understanding of and commitment to service user involvement, patient led care and choice.
• Able to develop behaviour support plans, taking account of mediator variables, and support their implementation and ongoing evaluation.
• Understands the importance of assessment that explores and considers individual cultural identity and associated support needs.
• Able to provide consultation and liaison support to colleagues, referral agencies and services responsible for the care, support and wellbeing of service users and their families/carers.
• Able to promote self management and recovery by working with service users and their families to understand their condition and identify and reinforce strengths, resources and coping skills.
• Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, actively engaging in and supporting peer support, training and skills development.
• Able to build strong partnerships with external agencies and develop effective joint planning and support arrangements.
• Able to confidently and safely plan for and manage change and transition.
• Actively uses supervision and opportunities for development of skills.
• Knowledge of legislation in relation to Competencies.
• Able to undertake complex functional assessments for the client group and mental health.

Specialist Assessment

• Skilled in the use of complex methods of behavioural assessment (e.g., analogue assessments, ABLLS), intervention and management, frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration.

Administration and Record Keeping

• Able to use word and excel to write reports and analyse and present basic data.
• Understands the process for keeping safe, secure and relevant clinical records.
• Understands and is able to use online incident reporting systems.
• Able to use email to support effective communication in line with CNWL policy.
• Able to use Microsoft PowerPoint and other communication methods to support the delivery of high quality, engaging training and presentations.
• Use of COMMIT and other related A CYP IAPT databases.

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Luis Gracia Job title Team Manager Email address L.Gracia@nhs.net Telephone number 01895256521 Additional information

Rebecca Stone- Team Lead for Learning Disability Team.

rebecca.stone6@nhs.net