Behavior 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.

**Job Description**:
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 looking for **Behaviour Support Practitioners** to join our multidisciplinary team, servicing participants across South East QLD. We are looking for those who want to build a career within behavior support, who are looking for support, supervision and guidance to be the best they can be and who want to help our participants get the most out of life everyday. On a daily basis, you will be...
- 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

**About You**

To be successful you will have:

- A genuine passion for working in the Disability sector
- Completed a **degree level qualification as an allied health professional** (Social Work / Psychology / OT / Speech / Education) or have experience with participants in the NDIS (support coordinator, support worker etc)
- 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

**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

**Does this role excite you? Then, I'd like to hear from you**

Additional Information
**_
You are welcome here_**
- 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. When you join MedHealth, we want you to bring your whole self to work - and we value your unique contribution._