Behaviour Support Practitioner. Permanent Full Time

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Employment type: Full Time, Part Time
Location: Darwin, Alice Springs & Central Australia, Brisbane, Cairns & Far North, Hervey Bay & Fraser Coast, Townsville & Northern QLD
Categories: Disability

About the organisation

Empowering people with disability to live life the waytheychoose is at the heart of how Life Without Barriers has operated for over 25 years. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and continue this mission. Support people with disability to have the choice, control, and independence to live their best life. If you're passionate about inclusivity, respect, and making a meaningful difference, this is the career move for you.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Permanent full time or part time (minimum three days per week) Behaviour Support Practitioner role based from anywhere in Queensland or the Northern Territory. This role has flexibility to work from home or one of our local offices, however, travel to meet with clients in the region will be required. You will be surrounded by support from a National Behaviour Intervention Support team, allowing you to effectively assess, design, evaluate and monitor behaviour support plans and interventions to provide positive outcomes for clients and reduce and eliminate restrictive practices wherever possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical knowledge, expertise and support to clients in a range of Life Without Barriers Disability programs as well as external providers
• Complete assessments (including data collection and analysis) of risk and behaviours of concern
• Design, deliver and monitor interventions and strategies for the purpose of supporting people with a disability to achieve a greater quality of life, in those who present with behaviours of concern
• Work within the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Commission requirements, the NDIA terms of business and any State Based Restrictive Practice Authorisation requirements
• Provide training and support to staff, teachers, parents and other relevant stakeholders in positive behaviour interventions, behaviour support plans, restrictive practices, risk and safety plans
• Collaborate with all relevant stakeholders (including family, staff, teachers and other health and allied health professionals) in order to ensure best outcomes for the clients

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in allied health professions such as Psychology, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or equivalent experience that meets the requirements of the NDIS Commission PBS Capability Framework
• Experience working in a culturally sensitive manner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and/or a willingness to work and train in culturally appropriate approaches
• Monthly communities of practice with Dr Jeffrey Chan
• Join a national behaviour support team, learning from and being supported by colleagues all over the country
• Regular in-house individual supervision and scheduled professional development sessions
• Monthly rostered days off (if full time)

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click 'Apply' and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Mikaella at recruitment@lwb.org.au .

Applications close at midnight on 17 August 2025.

Advertised: 05 Aug 2025 E. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 17 Aug 2025 23:55 E. Australia Standard Time