Behaviour Support Practitioner | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a Behaviour Support Practitioner, to work within a newly developed IST pathway in the Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Service (MHLD). You will be expected to work directly and indirectly with people with learning disabilities, families, and carers providing person-centred specialist behavioural assessments and interventions, using a Positive Behavioural Support approach. You will be part of a small intensive support pathway which is part of a friendly community-based MDT and wider staff group of Psychologists and Behavioural Support Practitioners across the MHLD service. You will provide clinical interventions that are focused on the person and the whole network supporting that person, to develop and deliver support within the person’s home and community.

As a Specialist Practitioner Behaviour Support Practitioner in our IST pathway, within Lambeth Mental Health & Learning Disability Service (MHLD), you will be a member of a multi-disciplinary community team working together primarily to:

• To provide applied behavioural assessment and intervention for clients who present behaviour that challenges services and poses risks to their well-being, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To employ the principles of Positive Behavioural Support in all aspects of clinical work.
• To participate in strengthening local services and developing capable environments though training, consultation and modelling.

The teams do this through the early management of identified complex situations. This will include detailed risk assessment and management underpinned by a positive behaviour support model.

As a Behaviour Support Practitioner in our team, you will be part of a well-established group of around 20 Psychologists and Behavioural Support Practitioners, working across the MHLD services, led by the Borough Consultant Clinical Psychologist, providing a range of psychological assessments and interventions for people with learning disabilities and their networks. You will receive supervision from a qualified psychologist, and have opportunities to work jointly with psychologists and colleagues. You will be expected to make use of regular CPD sessions within the Trust, and to contribute to teaching, training and/or supervision initiatives aimed at developing PBS approach across and outside the Trust.

This is a permanent full time post in Lambeth MHLD, based at Maudsley Hospital. Job share arrangements are possible for applicants wanting to work part time

We have close links with the Estia Centre, a specialist training, research and development resource for people who support adults with learning disabilities, and you will be expected to co facilitate some of the training sessions for local providers. We are part of a Clinical Academic Group within Kings Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre, and research interests and joint initiatives aimed at improving the physical and mental health care for people with learning disabilities are encouraged. There are opportunities to help develop and deliver training and consultation to provider services as part of your work.

Job Purpose

• To provide applied behavioural assessment and intervention for clients who present behaviour that challenges services and poses risks to their well-being, including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To employ the principles of Positive Behavioural Support in all aspects of clinical work alongside MDT colleagues.
• To participate in strengthening local services and developing capable environments though training, consultation and modelling.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
• To participate in service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within professional and Trust guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor.
• To plan and facilitate staff training and teaching, and presentations as appropriate

This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Jun 2026