Behaviour Support Practitioner

• Full-time
• State: NSW
• Job Status: Full Time

Welcome to Ability Action Australia

We are one of the largest providers to the NDIS, supporting over 10,000 participants every year with the care they need, when and where it is needed. We have a multi-disciplinary team approach, building a quality support service around the needs and goals of our participants and their family.

Help us help others with life-changing support that can improve their independence, access, development, health, wellbeing, and function.

Ability Action Australia's south west Sydney team is looking for an experienced Behaviour Support Practitioner who has current suitability at the Proficient or Advanced level, as confirmed by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.

Responsibilities will include:

1. Supporting NDIS participants, along with their families and/or carers, to identify their needs through assessment and person-centred planning.
2. Evaluating, developing, and delivering evidence-based support plans within a complex support space.
3. Developing meaningful goals and practical strategies as per the positive behaviour support framework, with a commitment to eliminate restrictive practices, in the home and community.
4. Ensuring individual plans reflect participants' goals, passions, and strengths.
5. Building the knowledge, capacity, and strengths of those who support participants in their lives - family, carers, friends, etc.
6. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including mentoring less experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners.

What's in it for you?

1. Ultimate flexibility - Combine the convenience of working from home with the social interaction of working in the community & our clinic/hubs.
2. Excellent remuneration – Generous base salary + car allowance + laptop + phone + CPD + bonuses + Reward and Recognition Program.
3. Salary packaging - includes novated leasing and self-education expenses.
4. Career progression – Access to ongoing training tailored to your interests and long-term goals, combined with professional development opportunities with Ability Action Australia and our parent company MedHealth.
5. Passionate and uplifting culture – You will be part of a purpose and values-driven team focused on delivering outstanding supports to participants.

About you

1. Considerable experience working as a Behaviour Support Practitioner for a registered NDIS provider OR have obtained suitability at the Proficient or Advanced level via the self-assessment application pathway with the NDIS Commission.
2. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
3. Excellent time management and organisational skills.
4. Genuine passion for working in the disability sector and mentoring less experienced practitioners.
5. Solution-focused, proactive attitude, and motivated by improvement and testing new ideas.
6. Looking for a fun, collaborative, and supportive work environment.
7. Current suitability - confirmed by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission - at the Proficient or Advanced level as a Behaviour Support Practitioner.
8. Completion of a degree-level qualification in an allied health discipline would be an advantage but is not essential.

Click on the Apply button OR call Benita Kempton on 0476795843 OR email via bkempton@medhealth.com.au.

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You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 3,500 people around Australia represents a huge array of life experiences, skills, and ways of thinking. We value all these differences.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disabilities including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers, and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.