PBS Practitioner (Grade 7)

The PBS Practitioner works in partnership with individuals to understand their life circumstances including physical and emotional needs, with the aim of developing physical and social environments that are supportive and capable of meeting people’s needs.

The PBS practitioner achieves this by working in partnership with other health and social care teams across Gloucestershire.

"I am a Positive Behavioural Support Practitioner in Adult Social Care. As a PBS, I get involved with people who have some kind of diagnosis of learning disability, autism, dementia, or a acquired brain injury.

When we get a referral, we usually get involved with the person and we conduct the Functional Behavioural Assessments which will tell us usually the function of the behaviour and why they do what they do. From there, we are able to provide some specific inventions to families or a specific provider, teams, or needs to be able to support the person more effectively’ - PBS Practitioner