Job Description

Join MacIntyre as a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Lead

Location:

Wingrave (near Aylesbury), with travel to Leighton Buzzard and St Albans

Full-time | Permanent

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of children and young people with learning disabilities and autism? Do you bring deep experience and a collaborative, persuasive approach to your work? If so, we'd love to hear from you.


At MacIntyre, we're looking for a dedicated and skilled PBS Specialist to help shape and lead best practice across our School and Children's Homes in Wingrave, and provide support to our other settings in Leighton Buzzard and St Albans.

The Role

In this exciting and rewarding role, you will:

Oversee and support a flexible caseload of children and young people who may need focused, specialist support. Coach and mentor colleagues to embed PBS principles and approaches across our Children's homes. Work closely with internal teams and external professionals to create consistent, person-centred support plans that lead to positive outcomes. Champion PBS across services, driving improvements in practice and outcomes. Work alongside our other PBS Specialists and members of the therapy team

Interested?

If you'd like to discuss the role informally before applying, please feel free to contact:

Sarah Kilby, Best Practice Manager 07834168402 Callum Sillitoe, Head of Therapy 01296 681274

Come and be part of a passionate, supportive team that's making a real impact every day.

About You

To be successful in this role, you'll bring:

Extensive experience supporting people with learning disabilities and/or autism. A strong understanding of positive behaviour support, functional assessment and person centred planning. Excellent communication, coaching, and mentoring skills. Experience of delivering training or a willingness to become a trainer A collaborative mindset and the confidence to influence and lead others positively. Ideally, a professional qualification in PBS or a willingness to work towards one. A full driving licence and access to your own vehicle due to the rural location of our School and the need to travel between sites

About us

MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.


We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone's unique gifts, talents and contributions.

Our Vision

For all people with a learning disability to live a life that makes sense to them.

Our Mission

We will support a sense of wellbeing through a celebration of each person's unique gifts, talents and contributions, the quality of our relationships and ensuring the promotion of real opportunities to connect with others.

Our purpose

To achieve excellence in everything we do.

MacIntyre's "primary purpose"

is to make a positive contribution to the lives of children and adults with disabilities. We make this contribution by ensuring that all our interactions are great, that our knowledge and skills represent excellence and that we support people to develop purposeful and warm relationships. Our "secondary purpose" is to have a positive influence in our local communities and on our sector by connecting well, nurturing partnerships and demonstrating best practice.

Our DNA

MacIntyre has a particular way of working with people and because it is so important to all our activities we call it our DNA. It is a combination of our values and the way that we put those values into actions that is unique to MacIntyre. Through our Promises and Value Base, the promotion of Great Interactions and Person Centred Approaches, we aim to support every person to live a life that makes sense to them, with a level and style of support of their choosing.

Pay and Rewards

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays Workplace Pension scheme MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost) MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period) Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more You will qualify for a Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff. Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)

Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement

MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.


MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked "Accessibility" at the top of the screen.