Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner

Melba Support Services are actively recruiting for a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner to join our Practice, Quality and Safequards team on a Full Time Ongoing basis. In the role you can work from anywhere in Victoria, as long as you are prepared to be mobile and to travel as required.

In this role, you will deliver positive behaviour support services to NDIS participants in line with ‘The Melba Way’ and utilising contemporary evidence-based assessment interventions and practice frameworks.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Manage a clinical case load to ensure a person-centred approach focusing on the protection, maintenance, and upholding of human rights and trauma informed support
- Ensure that where restrictive practices are identified they are used only if necessary and are the least restrictive option
- Develop a positive behaviour support plan that demonstrates a focus on reduction of restrictive practices and elimination that is proved over time
- Proficient practitioners will also provide supervision to other practitioners

**About You**

You have experience in disability service delivery and management with the capacity to implement principles of positive behaviour support, trauma informed support and person-centred thinking.

You may have experience working as a positive behaviour support practitioner or you are looking for a new opportunity to upskill with on-the-job training to be endorsed as a positive behaviour support practitioner.

**You’ll have**:

- Previous experience working as a positive behaviour support practitioner or in a disability service delivery and management role responsible for developing a range of support plans/protocols or previous experience working as a positive behaviour support practitioner
- Previous experience supporting people who display behaviours of protest, in line with a person-centred, positive behaviour support approach
- Working knowledge of the Disability Act 2006 (Vic) and the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding framework, as relevant to the use and reporting of restrictive practices
- Demonstrated ability to provide advice, support, coaching, and mentoring to staff in person centred active support and positive behaviour support through a trauma informed lens
- Demonstrated ability to influence and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders including peers, employees, external organisations, funding bodies and government agencies
- High level Communication skills - written and verbal
- Strong Creative and lateral approaches to thinking and problem-solving
- High level organisational and time management skills with a proven ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and work autonomously

This role with require you to have a drivers license and to travel as required.

**You will also bring with you or be willing to obtain**:

- NDIS Worker screening Check
- Working with Children Check
- Evidence of COVID 19 vaccination status, including booster

**Why Join us?**
- Hybrid working
- being located where you need to be to perform the duties of the role, this may be office, home, service locations or peoples homes.
- Join a well-connected and collaborative culture making an impact in a purpose driven organisation
- Not for Profit Salary Packaging benefits including $15,900 plus meals and entertainment allowance

**About Us**

We are an established, values-based not for profit organisation providing disability support services for close to 50 years. Our valued services include Accommodation, Participation & Learning, Respite Care & Employment, Volunteering and Skill Building.

With over 1400 employees we are a collaborative team dedicated to working together. We create an environment where you can bring your full selves to work each day and deeply rooted in our culture is a feeling of respect, work-life balance and flexibility.
- Melba is an equal opportunity employer._
- We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion._
- Aboriginal people; p_eople from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are strongly encouraged to apply._