Bso Lead

**“How do you bring kindness to others every day?”**

Join us in our journey of kindness - our Kind era - where compassion is our language, and kindness is our legacy. We are committed to nurturing a culture of kindness that flourishes within our team. Our valued team members are the heart of our mission and their well-being directly impacts the lives of those in our care.

The Behaviour Support Lead will serve as an in-house, on identification and management of responsive behaviours. This dedicated Manager will function in a speciality role providing clinical care to older adults presenting with or at risk for responsive behaviours that may be associated with dementia, complex mental health, substance use and/or other neurological conditions.

The Behaviour Support Manager will work in collaboration with the Behaviour Support Resource Team, Psychogeriatric Resource Consultants Geriatric Mental Health Outreach Team, Long Term Care Behaviour Support Outreach Team, hospitals, CCAC, primary care providers, and other providers and professionals. The Behaviour Support Manager may also provide expert assistance to neighbouring LTCHS.

**Essential Duties**:

- Provide sound clinical knowledge and skills, act as clinical expert and resource, and provide comprehensive, quality client/family-centred health care services,
- Collaborate with Psychogeriatric Resource consultants and mobile behaviour support resources in the development/refresh of the LTCH's Behaviour Support Resource Team (BSRT),
- Provide leadership and support to the LTC home's BSRT,
- Coach LTC home staff in the use of frameworks such as PIECES and UFIRST to assess responsive behaviours, identify triggers and develop behaviour care plans and approaches to providing care to residents requiring behavioural support as well as their families,
- Provide comprehensive biopsychosocial geriatric assessments, treatment, follow-up and discharge planning in collaboration with the BSRT,
- Provide coaching on the implementation of behaviour care plans and guide appropriate care plan transitions,
- Aid in the transition of long-term care residents with responsive behaviours (new or existing) between community, hospital and neighbouring long-term care homes (LTCHS),
- Convene and chair regular Behaviour Rounds that enable front line staff to discuss care plans with internal and external resources,
- Identify the need for additional consultation and/or referrals to external services or specialities and coordinate referrals,
- Advocate for and, protect the individual rights of, residents/clients,
- Raise client-specific challenges/barriers to a supervisor, as a means of identifying systemic issues where broader consultations may be required,
- Proactively identify training and education needs for the home and coordination with the PRCs to deliver capacity building supports,
- Participate in the Orientation process of new employees, volunteers or students in regards to the Responsive Behaviour program,
- Other duties as assigned and or indicated in the Job Task Inventory.

**Qualifications**

At Cooksville Care Centre we take pride in our employees, so your qualifications are important to us. We use them to get to know you and see if we are a good fit for each other. The qualifications needed to join our family at Cooksville Care Centre are as follows:

- Current registration with the appropriate College,
- Current CPR/First Aid certification,
- Training in Gentle Persuasive Approaches (GPA), U-FIRST, P.I.E.C.E.S., Dementiability are an asset,
- Minimum one (1) year experience with clients in long-term care or residents in a long-term care home setting,
- Demonstrated knowledge and skill working with older adults presenting with or at risk for responsive behaviours that may be associated with dementia, complex mental health, substance use and/or other neurological conditions,
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor others,
- Demonstrated ability to take professional accountability for leading, organizing, providing and delegating care activities for residents and families,
- Experience with quality improvement methods and processes an asset,
- Basic computer skills - Microsoft Word, Excel and online learning utilities including the ability to use electronic communication devices preferred,
- Knowledge and understanding of RAI-MDS process,
- Demonstrate flexibility in schedule to ensure all shifts (D, E,N) get support if needed.
- **Must have a clear vulnerable sector screen, no older than 6 months, TB test results less than 6 months old, must be able to provide three supervisory references.