Behaviour Support Practitioner

5 months ago

Wollongong, Australia Ability Action Australia Full time

Company Description
**_
Welcome to Ability Action Australia_**

We are a national therapy services provider. Every day and in many ways, we are here to help NDIS participants - children, adolescents and adults (0-65 years) - get more out of life today **_Help us help others_** to improve their access, development, independence, and overall health and wellbeing, and function.

**Job Description**:
Ability Action Australia are continuing to grow. We are now looking for a **Behaviour Support Practitioner **who has current suitability at the **Proficient or Advanced level**:

- as confirmed by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission - for our team providing supports to NDIS participants within the **Wollongong area.**

**What's in it for you?**

As you support many, we support you. We offer:

- ** Benefits** - Professional Development allowance, staff referral scheme, Fitness Passportjust to name a few
- ** Flexibility** - You can select the hours and days - full-time or part-time - which work best for your life
- ** Excellent remuneration** - Industry leading salary + kilometre reimbursement + laptop + smartphone + Performance with Purpose Reward and Recognition Program + salary packaging options
- ** Work-life balance** - Combine the convenience of working from home with the social interaction of working in the community plus the Hub with in-clnic services available
- ** 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 service to our NDIS participants

**Responsibilities will include**:

- Assisting 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 utilising a positive behaviour support framework, and with a commitment to eliminate restrictive practices, in the home and community
- Ensuring individual plans reflect our NDIS 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
- Acting as an advocate and role model for best practice

**Qualifications**:
**To be considered suitable you will have**:

- Current suitability - confirmed by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission - at the Proficient or Advanced level as a Behaviour Support Practitoner
- Ideally completed a degree level qualification as an allied health professional
- Report writing experience
- Excellent time management and organisational skills to manage a varied caseload
- Proactive attitude, motivated by improvement and the opportunity to test and learn from new ideas
- Open to provide supervision to junior clinicians
- Genuine passion for working in the disability sector

To be successful in this role, you will be solution focused, highly organised and possess exceptional people skills. You will be passionate about what you do and pride yourself on delivering exceptional customer service.

Additional Information

**_
You are welcome here_**
- 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. When you join MedHealth, we want you to bring your whole self to work - and we value your unique contribution._

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