Behaviour Support Practitioner

4 days ago


Clayton South, Australia Care Choice Full time

Opportunity to join a high performing team and make an impact
- Support our client programs and drive business growth
- Exceptional benefits program, including access to your pay as you earn it

**About CareChoice**

CareChoice is a NDIS, DFFH / Human Services Standard and TAC/ WorkSafe registered disability and youth services provider. We deliver a wide range of services and provide complex support across the Disability, Out of Home Care (OoHC) and Private Aged Care sectors in a range of settings including home care, residential, community and Specialist Disability Accommodation.

CareChoice is committed to service excellence and works closely with clients, their families, and key stakeholders to ensure individuals receive the very best person-centred care. The CareChoice team are passionate about their work and pride themselves in delivering an exceptional calibre of service.

**Our values**:
Our philosophy of service provision is based upon our values of:

- ** People, First**:

- **Brilliant Together**:

- **Bring Our Best. Always**:

- **Relentless Optimism**

**Benefits & culture**

CareChoice is proud to be an EEO employer. We support an inclusive approach in the workplace. We celebrate our diversity and welcome staff regardless of ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity and lifestyle choices. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

As a CareChoice employee, benefits you’ll be able to take advantage of include:

- Employee Pathways Scholarships
- Employee Support Fund
- Free ongoing training and development
- Annual recognition awards
- Paid Pregnancy loss leave for either parent
- Flexible work
- A number of employee wellness platforms including EAP and Care4U, free flu shots and travel discounts.
- Discounts with major retailers including:

- Car and Health Insurance
- Fuel
- Groceries and food
- Gas, Electricity, Internet, and Mobile Phones
- Pet supplies
- Movie tickets
- Other major retailers such as Catch, Myer, Kmart, Big W, JB Hi Fi plus many more.
- Monthly Recognition & Reward for Employee of the Month
- Service Recognition Program
- Career development opportunities including secondments and Job-Ride-A-Long program

From the moment you step through our doors, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do your best work and really make a difference in people’s lives.

**How you’ll make an impact**

The primary role of the Behaviour Support Practitioner is to
provide expertise to staff/clients support network in relation to positive behaviour support and therapeutic support.

The role will require use of knowledge and experience to provide evidence and behaviour-based supports to clients in different environments and will focus on person-centred interventions to address the underlying causes of behaviours of
concern. This role will work with NDIS clients who have funding allocated for behaviour support.

A day in the life as our Behaviour Support Practitioner with CareChoice, some of your key responsibilities in this role include:

- Developing individualised strategies for people with disability that are
responsive to the person’s needs, in a way that reduces the occurrence and
impact of behaviours of concern and minimises the use of restrictive
- Undertaking functional behavioural assessments to develop behaviour
support plans containing evidence-based, proactive and reactive strategies
that meet the specific needs of the person displaying behaviour of concern.
- Developing, implementing, and monitoring behaviour support plans that
meet CareChoice and NDIS requirements in consultation with the person
with disability, their family, carers and other relevant people and service
providers who will be implementing the plan.
- Developing person-centred interventions to address the underlying causes
of behaviours of concern, while safeguarding the dignity and quality of life of
people with disability who require specialist behaviour support.
- Ensuring that any interventions are in accordance with best practice,
evidence-based contemporary positive behaviour support for individuals
with behaviours of concern.
- Planning and delivering behaviour support approaches that comply with the
NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework and OH&S legislation.
- Ensuring staff are appropriately trained to implement positive behaviour

strategies or use restrictive practices.
- Facilitating planning and training events using approaches that promote
team development, person centred thinking and positive behavioural
support to develop individual plans and practical strategies leading to life
enhancing outcome.

**About you**

As our Behaviour Support Practitioner, you will have a pro-active attitude, high degree of initiative and strong desire to achieve outstanding outcomes for our clients and staff, with a focus on person-centred interventions to address the underlying causes of behaviours of concern or challenging behaviours.
- Ideally, you’ll have:_
- Qualific



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