Job Description

We are seeking passionate Specialist Practitioners to join one of our incredible teams in Bangor.
As a Specialist Practitioner for Mencap, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of individuals with learning disabilities.
About the Team and the Role

• Lead the transition of functional assessments into robust Positive Behaviour Support plans and ensure they are consistently carried out across shifts.
• Coach colleagues in real time, model best practice, and provide support during high-risk moments to stabilise and reset support.
• Coordinate MDT input and family voice so clinical recommendations become workable routines, environments and schedules.
• Use ABC logs, scatterplots and incident trends to set targets, track progress and drive timely plan revisions.
• Oversee proportionate risk assessments and dynamic risk plans, and review any restrictive practices to reduce and safely remove them.
• Lead or contribute to post-incident debriefs, obtain any learning, and implement immediate and medium-term improvements.
• Quality-assure records, reporting and RQIA readiness, escalating safeguarding concerns promptly and sharing learning across services.

Grow independence and community participation through structured skill-building, phased plans, and meaningful alternatives to restrictions.
You will also be over the management of the Practitioner team.
Contract options:
Full Time Contracts available, 12 hour shifts
Benefits
Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated.
Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings.
For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document outlining all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team!
About Mencap
Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives.
We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.
At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues.
Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.
Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.
Every day we grow and learn. It's okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes
Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.
We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long- term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.
We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We're not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you're applying for.

Skills Required