Behaviour Support Practitioner

**Company Description**
**_
Welcome to Ability Action Australia_**

We 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. We have a multi-disciplinary team approach, building a quality support service around the needs and goals of our participants and their family.

**_ Help us help others_** to improve their access, development, independence, and overall health and wellbeing, and function.

We are expanding our Positive Behaviour Support**team and would love to welcome an experienced Behaviour Support Practitioner eager to make a difference and contribute to best practice. You’ll bring expertise, maturity and strong time management and organisational skills to the role.

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.

**Responsibilities will include**:

- 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.

**What's in it for you?**

As you support many, we support you We offer:

- ** Flexibility** - select the hours and days that suit you
- ** Excellent remuneration** - Generous base + car allowance + phone + laptop + salary packaging (inc. self education and novated leasing)
- ** Work-life balance** - Ability to work from home, office/clinic + out in the community
- ** Career progression** - Access to professional development and career growth opportunities within 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 our clients

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

- Current suitability - confirmed by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission - at the** Core or Proficient level as a Behaviour Support Practitioner.**:

- Completed a degree level qualification as an allied health professional.
- 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. You will be passionate about what you do and pride yourself on delivering exceptional customer service.

**Additional Information**

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**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.