Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner

**Job no**: 494744
**Work type**: Full - Time (Auto), Part - Time (Auto)
**Location**: Western Melbourne
**Categories**: Psychologist

**Specialist Behaviour Support (SBS) Practitioner - Core/Proficient**

**Location**:West (Sunshine/ Yarraville) Region
**Vacancy Type**: Permanent - Full time/ Part Time (Hybrid)
**Job reference**: 494744

**Salary Range**:

- **SBS Practitioner Core**:$66,373.36 - $78,865.70 plus superannuation and salary packaging
- **SBS Practitioner Proficient**:$83,931.32 - $101,506.73 plus superannuation and salary packaging

**Make a Difference**

Join Yooralla as a Specialist Behaviour Support (SBS) Practitioner and empower people with disabilities through Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). In this role, you’ll work collaboratively with individuals, families, and support teams to understand behaviours of concern and co-design strategies that promote dignity, autonomy, inclusion, and well-being. You’ll be responsible for developing and implementing evidence-based behaviour support plans that are person-centred, trauma-informed, and aligned with each person’s goals and quality of life.

Become part of a team that values reflective practice, relational work, and sustainable, rights-based support.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Manage a clinical caseload** within your scope and meet key performance indicators
- **Develop and implement Behaviour Support Plans** tailored to individual needs
- **Conduct Functional Behaviour Assessments** to inform proactive support strategies
- **Monitor and evaluate plans**, ensuring ongoing effectiveness
- **Engage in professional development** to enhance your skills
- **Provide supervision** (if Proficient) to Core-level practitioners

**Mandatory**Requirements**

A Core or Proficient Practitioner must demonstrate attainment of completed self-assessment and endorsed according to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) PBS Capability Framework as either all domains “capability met” at the Core Level or as “developing” in their competencies and knowledge at the Proficient Level.
- NDIS Registration as a Core Practitioner with all “capabilities met” or Proficient Practitioner (or eligibility for progression to this level)
- Relevant tertiary qualification (Psychology, Social Work, OT, ABA, Disability, Health)
- Current checks & licenses:

- National Police Check & NDIS Worker Screening
- Working with Children Check
- Australian driver’s license & access to a vehicle
- Up-to-date immunisation history
- Experience in disability-related fields
- If applicable, full registration as a psychologist with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

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**Why Yooralla?**

**Find out more about**Working in Allied Health Team with Yooralla**

**Yooralla and Berry Street, two of Victoria’s most respected and long-standing social service providers, have merged - in a transformative step forward in meeting current and emerging community needs. The merger will enable us to deliver greater impact, expand our services, and create more opportunities for professional growth and development.**
- Berry Street Yooralla acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People as the Traditional Custodians of the lands across Victoria where our services are located, and pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past, present and future. Yooralla is committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands Peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to Berry Street Yooralla and our society._

**Advertised**: 17 Jun 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time