Behaviour Support Practitioner

**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 **Ipswich region** in a community based setting.

**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, 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**:

- Hold and maintain membership/registration with one of the following**:AHPRA, ESSA, SPA, AOB, ANZACATA, AASW**:

- 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**

**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.