Behaviour Support Practitioner

**Company Description**
We are a national NDIS provider, delivering Allied Health support in over 300 locations across Australia to thousands of participants in the community with Occupational & Speech Therapy, Behaviour Support, Psychology, Exercise Physiology & Physiotherapy services.

Ability Action Australia's **Western Sydney team** are looking for experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners who have current suitability at the **Proficient level**, as confirmed by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.

**What we offer you**:

- ** Benefits** - Professional Development allowance, staff referral scheme, option to _purchase additional leave_just to name a few
- ** Flexibility** - You can select the hours and days - full-time or part-time - which work best for your life
- ** Excellent remuneration** - Industry leading salary + kilometre reimbursement + laptop + smartphone + Performance with Purpose Reward and Recognition Program + salary packaging options
- ** Work-life balance** - Combine the convenience of working from home with the social interaction of working in the community plus the support of office and clinic hours
- ** 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 our NDIS participants

**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
- 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 suitable you will have**:

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

- Completed a degree level qualification as an allied health professional
- NDIS 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**

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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.