Behaviour Support Practitioner

Company Description

Welcome to Ability Action Australia

We are one of the largest providers to the NDIS, supporting over 10,000 participants every year with the care they need, when and where it is needed. We have a multi-disciplinary team approach, building a quality support service around the needs and goals of our participants and their family.

Help us help others with life changing support that can improve their independence, access, development, health and wellbeing, and function.

Job Description

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

Successful candidates will be providing supports to cover NDIS participants living in the following areas (depending on where you live) Campbelltown, Prestons, Camden, Liverpool, Ingleburn, Casula & surrounding areas.

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?

- Ultimate flexibility - Combine the convenience of working from home with the social interaction of working in the community & our clinic/ hubs.
- Excellent remuneration – Generous base salary + car allowance + laptop + phone + CPD + bonuses + Reward and Recognition Program.
- Salary packaging - includes novated leasing and self education expenses.
- 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 working as a Behaviour Support Practitioner for a registered NDIS provider OR have obtained suitability at the Proficient or Advanced level via the self-assessment application pathway with the NDIS Commission.
- 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
- Completion of a degree level qualification in an allied health discipline would be an advantage but is not essential

Additional Information

Click on the Apply button OR call Benita Kempton on 0476 795 843 OR email via bkempton@medhealth.com.au.

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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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