Behaviour Support Practitioner

**Company Description**

**Outcomes Connect Australia** is an allied health practice which is committed to delivering best-practice, outcome-focused services. We are renowned for the exceptional support we provide and our commitment to ensuring our participants achieve their goals

Our Positive Behaviour Support Model encompasses the multidisciplinary expertise of Behaviour Support Practitioners, Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists to understand the drivers of behaviours from a communication, sensory and environmental perspective.

A unique opportunity has become available for a **Behaviour Support Practitioner** located in Geelong to** **join our professional and friendly team.

Thanks to our commitment to service excellence, demand for our services has increased and we have the need to find a new practitioner in the Geelong area. We will consider an entry level practitioner or someone with a sound knowledge of the Positive Behaviour Support Model of reducing the use of Restrictive Practices, as well as a strong commitment to delivering evidence-based, functional behavioural outcomes.

As a Behaviour Support Practitioner you will...
- Support our clients (NDIS participants), along with their families and/or carers, to identify their needs through assessment and person-centred planning
- Identify meaningful goals and practical strategies utilising The Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework, with a commitment to eliminate restrictive practices, in the home and community
- Develop, deliver and evaluate evidence-based support plans within a complex support space
- Ensure individual plans reflect our clients' goals, passions and strengths
- Build the knowledge, capacity and strengths of those who support our clients - family, carers, friends, etc

**Why Join Us?**
- ** Fantastic team culture**:

- a fun, supportive and quality-focused team which works together to achieve goals
- ** Generous salary package** - above award rates, rewards for outstanding work, great benefits (e.g. $600 annual Wellbeing subsidy), access to salary packaging options and the latest technology to ensure you succeed
- ** Personal and professional growth** - supporting your ongoing professional development and enabling you to do the work you’re most inspired by through our professional development program, fortnightly PD sessions and weekly supervision with your Team Lead
- ** Work-life balance**:

- flexible work arrangements to plan your work to best suit your lifestyle while also meeting the needs of your team and clients

**About you**
- Current suitability with the NDIS Commission as a Behaviour Support Practitioner AND/OR considerable experience providing support to people with behaviours of concern
- Demonstrated ability to work positively in a multidisciplinary team
- Outstanding communication, influencing and interpersonal skills
- Confident computer skills
- Sound writing skills
- Current drivers licence and own reliable vehicle

**Qualifications**
- Formal qualifications of relevance to providing supports to people with behaviours of concern AND/OR considerable experience providing support to people with behaviours of concern, either professionally and/or personally, is essential

**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.