Behaviour Support Practitioner

2 days ago


Newcastle, Australia Ability Action Australia Full time

**Company Description** Ability Action Australia**are one of the largest providers to the NDIS, supporting over 10,000 participants every year with the care they need, when and where it is needed. #AAA have a multi-disciplinary team approach, building a quality support service around the needs and goals of our participants and their family.

Ability Action Australia are looking for Behaviour Support Practitioners of **all experience and suitability levels**. Whether you are **just starting** your career or have suitability levels **Core, Proficient or Advanced**, we want to hear from you

We will provide you with a bucket load of structured supervision, mentoring and CPD opportunities. We promise to invest in you, so you can thrive in our fast-paced, energetic, and fun workplace. No two days are ever the same You might find us in childcare centres, schools, aged care facilities, day programs, the community, homes, and/or our clinic space. We have regular team meetings, team building events and enjoy a fun and dynamic work environment where all teams have the opportunity to grow and learn together.

This is a great opportunity to use your Positive Behaviour Support skills to evaluate, develop and deliver evidence-based support plans within a complex support space. This role will ensure individual plans reflect our NDIS participants' passions and interests and promotes their quality of life. Whilst doing so you will also build the knowledge, capacity and strengths of all those who are important to the participant.

**As you support many, we support you**
- ** Work flexibility** - From 24 hours a week to full time, you select the hours and days that work best for you as an individual.
- ** Excellent remuneration** - Industry leading salary + salary packaging + car allowance + laptop + smartphone + purchased leave + bonus opportunties.
- ** True work-life balance** - The autonomy of setting your calendar, your way. Combine the convenience of working from home with time at our supportive hubs.
- ** Career progression** - Access to ongoing training tailored to your interests and long-term goals combined with professional development opportunities through Ability Action Australia and our parent company, MedHealth.
- ** Continuous Professional Development**- A generous CPD allowance and paid leave days to complete this.
- ** Passionate and positive culture** - Be part of a purpose-driven team that believes in your development and in making a difference.

**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
- Building the knowledge, capacity and strengths of those who support participants in their lives - family, carers, friends, etc
- Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including mentoring less experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners

**Qualifications** To be considered you will have**:

- Completed a degree level qualification as an allied health professional is desired
- ** Current suitability at the Core or Proficient level, as confirmed by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, is preferred but not required.**:

- 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

To be successful in this role, you will be solution focused, highly organised and possess exceptional people skills.
**Additional Information**

AAA

**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.



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