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Behaviour Specialists expand Services
The Richmond Fellowship Scotland’s specialist challenging behaviour team has announced the recruitment of two new members of staff as part of a significant expansion of its services.
The Team, which supports staff and services who work with people who have complex and severely challenging behaviour, hope the two new Positive Behaviour Support Advisors will help address more referrals and minimise the currently lengthy waiting list. Interviews for these posts will take place in March with the new personnel starting in May.
The expansion of the service follows the recent name change to the Positive Behaviour Support Team. Anne MacDonald, Positive Behaviour Support Team Manager, explains the changes:
“The level of need and the complexity of referrals we have recently received has increased significantly and we hope that with the addition of our new personnel, we are able to not just clear the backlog of referrals but widen our remit to include large scale training initiatives like the Service Management training programme.
“This expansion coincides with our name change from Challenging Needs Service to Positive Behaviour Support Team and demonstrates a change in perspective. The person we support is no longer labelled as challenging and the emphasis moves to the response required by staff – to support the person with their behaviour. Positive Behaviour Support is also a more modern term which is becoming more prominent in the literature regarding challenging behaviour research and practice. The new name helps clarify the purpose of the team so we feel that it is an ideal time to bring in new personnel.”
The Positive Behaviour Support Team provides specialist behavioural support to staff working with people who have behavioural challenges. Utilising a range of innovative behavioural approaches, they offer practical, direct support to staff in services and provide in-depth, ongoing and practice-based training to Service Managers and teams.
For more information about Positive Behaviour Support Team, please contact:
Anne MacDonald
Positive Behaviour Support Team Manager
T: 0141 779 5287
E: amacdonald@trfs.org.uk