Behaviour Support Practitioner

**Company Description**
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Voted as a Top healthcare place to work by the AFR in 2022 and 2023**:

- ** Flexibility to work from home + in the community and the office / clinic - choose your days and hours**:

- ** Regular & ongoing PD opportunities to extend your clinical expertise**

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Welcome to Ability Action Australia_**

We are a National therapy services provider who help NDIS participants - children, adolescents and adults (0-65 years) - get more out of life today by providing Allied Health services in the community.

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

**Responsibilities will include**:

- Supporting NDIS participants, along with their families and/or carers, to identify their needs through assessment and person-centred planning
- Evaluating, developing and delivering evidence-based support plans within a complex support space
- 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
- Ensuring individual plans reflect participants' goals, passions and strengths
- Building the knowledge, capacity and strengths of those who support participants in their lives - family, carers, friends, etc
- Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including mentoring less experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners

**What's in it for you?**
- ** Benefits** - annual Professional Development allowance, staff referral scheme, Fitness Passport, salary packaging options, discounts on private health insurance and travel... just to name a few
- ** Flexibility** - Permanent full-time or part-time role. Choose your days and hours
- ** Excellent remuneration** - Industry leading salary + kilometre reimbursement + laptop + smartphone + incentives
- ** Work-life balance** - Combine the **convenience of working from home** with the social interaction of working in the community and support of office and clinic hours.
- ** 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
- ** Passionate and uplifting culture** - You will be part of a purpose and values driven team focused on delivering outstanding supports to participants

**About you**
- Considerable experience as a Behaviour Support Practitioner in the NDIS
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication, written and verbal, skills
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Genuine passion for working in the disability sector and mentoring less experienced practitioners
- Solution focus, proactive attitude, and motivated by improvement as well as the opportunity to test and learn from new ideas
- Looking for a fun, collaborative and supportive work environment

**Qualifications**
- Current suitability - confirmed by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission - at the **Proficient or Advanced level as a Behaviour Support Practitoner**:

- Completed a degree level qualification in an allied health discipline

**Additional Information**

**You are welcome here.**

Our fast-growing team of more than 3,500 people around Australia represent 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 disability 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.