Behaviour Support Practitioner

Job Title: Behaviour Support Practitioner
Travel Required: Melbourne VIC
Location: Melbourne VIC
Position Type: Full time, part time, casual

**Salary**: As per contract
Award: SCHADS

**Mission**
DD Child & Family Therapy Services mission is to enable each person we support to live as an empowered an equal citizen and to provide quality, sustainable and flexible services that uphold human rights and create opportunities and empower individuals to live the life they choose.

**Vision**
DD Child & Family Therapy Services will inspire and lead change to deliver best practice, we will:

- Support and listen to each person and their representative
- Provide leadership to influence strategy and policy
- Deliver person centred flexible and responsive services to build a sustainable future
- Build on our foundation for success through our expertise in service delivery, workforce development, quality improvement and research
- DD Child & Family Therapy Services is committed to the National Child Safe Standards in policy and in practice we will protect the best interested of all children involved in our services
- Provide high quality, professional and individualized support

**Role and Responsibilities**
You will be working closely with our participants, other service providers, stakeholders, senior managers and support workers to ensure effective and timely supports are provided to meet client needs in line with their NDIS packages and DD Child & Family Therapy Services policies and procedures. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to and grow our clinical service offerings within this region.

**As a Behaviour Support Practitioner, you will be responsible for**:

- Provide Behaviour Support services that are timely, efficient and effective, ensuring they meet the goals identified by the client and their families/carers and are provided within available resources
- Formulate, implement and monitor comprehensive behaviour support plans to manage behaviours of concern exhibited by people with complex needs including disability, dual diagnosis and mental ill health
- Complete on-site functional behaviour assessment (including data collation and analysis) of risk and behaviours of concern and maintain up to date progress reports.
- Ensuring Interim Behaviour Support Plans are lodged with the NDIS Commission within the mandated timelines - 1 month
- Ensuring Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plans are lodged with the NDIS Commission within the mandated timelines - 6 months
- Ensuring and maintaining all relevant supporting documentation for the completion of Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plans has been thoroughly completed and uploaded onto the central database
- Work in partnership with teams to implement and promote best practice in service delivery e.g. Person-Centred Active Support (PCAS) and Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
- Work collaboratively with and provide training and support to support staff and clients’ stakeholders in interventions and strategies developed for NDIA participants including behaviour support plans, therapeutic interventions, restricted practices, risk and safety plans.
- Work within the Victorian Regulatory requirements and NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Commission requirements, the NDIA Terms of Business and any State Based Restricted Practice Authorization requirements
- Ensuring own qualifications and training are completed and kept up to date including providing progress reports as per the set-out guidelines
- Attending and participating in regular supervision meetings with your line manager
- Reporting OHS concerns and complying with the OHS Act
- Ensuring own hours worked are accurately recorded and reflect actual hours worked
- Adhering to all DD Child & Family Therapy Services policies and procedures and NDIS guidelines and regulations
- Undertake other therapeutic work as required by the organisation and directed by the employer and or supervisor.
- Undertake other therapeutic and social work duties as required by the organisation and directed by the employer and or supervisor.
- Being flexible to provide coverage and also undertake duties as a residential care worker, intake officer and other roles as and when required.
- All other duties as directed by Senior Management

**Eligibility**
- Registered with the NDIS Quality & Safeguarding Commission as a Proficient or Advanced PBS Practitioner
- Completed Disability Worker Exclusion Scheme consent form
- Signed and witnessed Statutory Declaration Form
- Evidence of relevant Qualifications
- Evidence of your right to work in Australia _(Visa, unless you are an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident)_
- Current First Aid Certificate - Level 2 _(preferred but not mandatory)_
- NDIS Worker Orientation Module Certificate
- A minimum of 1 year in development and implementation of positive Behaviour Support
- Relevant qualification in allied health or social care and eligibility to register with the relevant membership body