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**:

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

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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.

Our south west Sydney multidisciplinary team have an opportunity available for you to use your considerable experience in providing support to people with behaviours of concern in a more structured and impactful way.

As an entry level Behaviour Support Practitioner you will learn how to...
- Support NDIS participants, along with their families and/or carers, to identify their needs through assessment and person-centred planning
- Develop behaviour support plans to include meaningful goals and practical strategies as per the positive behaviour support capability framework, with a commitment to eliminate restrictive practices, in the home and community
- Ensure individual plans reflect participants' goals, passions and strengths
- Develop, deliver and evaluate evidence-based support plans within a complex support space
- Build the knowledge, capacity and strengths of those who support participants in their lives - family, carers, friends, etc
- Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team

**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 in supporting people with complex needs and challenging behaviours
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication, written and verbal, skills
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Genuine passion for working in the disability sector and learning all there is to know about providing positive behaviour supports
- 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**
- Degree qualified 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.