Behaviour Support Practitioner

2 months ago

Southport, 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.

Ability Action Australia is a growing company with a great culture, along with unlimited professional development and career advancement opportunities for aspiring clinicians.

We are searching for our next Behaviour Support Practitioner to work with NDIS participants in and around the Norther Gold Coast region in a community based setting.

Whilst previous experience working as a BSP is an advantage, we are happy to consider those who have experience working in the disability sector, or have an understanding of the NDIS.

Alternatively, you may be nearing the end of your Psychology or Social Work degree, but are unsure what to do next. Working as a Behaviour Support Practitioner will see you working with adults and children with disabilities and challenging behaviours, BUT you will also working directly with the participants stakeholder and support team.

Responsibilities will include:

- Assisting NDIS participants, along with their families and/or carers, to identify their needs through assessment and person-centered 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, as well as ensuring they get more out of life
- Building the knowledge, capacity and strengths of those who support participants in their lives - family, carers, friends, etc
- Acting as an advocate and role model for best practice
- Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team

**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 & Work-life balance** - Combine the convenience of working from home with the social interaction of working in the community plus the support of an office
- ** Excellent remuneration** - Industry leading salary + km reimbursement + laptop + smartphone + Performance with Purpose Reward and Recognition Program + salary packaging options
- ** 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 NDIS participants

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

- ** Extensive experience working in the NDIS and supporting those with disabilities and challenging behaviours**:

- Understanding of Behaviour Support and Restrictive Practices
- Completed a **degree level qualification as an allied health professional**:

- Extensive 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
- Genuine passion for working in the disability sector

**Additional Information**
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

**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.

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