Behaviour Support Practitioner - Melton area

Company Description

Ability Action Australia

Welcome to Ability Action Australia!

Welcome to Ability Action Australia, where we help NDIS participants (0–65 years) get more out of life, more independence, more confidence, more growth, more wins.

Every day, we’re in the community helping people do life better… and honestly, it feels pretty amazing

As a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, you will be responsible for providing support to participants, carers and families int he followign ways.

You’ll be doing things like

Evaluating, developing & delivering evidence-based support plans

Creating meaningful goals using a positive behaviour support framework

Building capacity in the people who support our participants, families, carers, friends, support workers

Working alongside a brilliant multidisciplinary team

Championing the reduction (and elimination!) of restrictive practices

And, because we like to keep it real:

This is NOT a stepping stone to becoming a psychologist.

It’s a meaningful, legitimate, highly skilled career all on its own.

About You

You’ll thrive with us if you

Have a degree in OT, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Social Work or similar

Live within a 20 minute radius of either Melton

Have experience reading or creating, implementing or reviewing behaviour support plans

Have a genuine passion for disability support

Have experience working with challenging behaviours

Love working with humans AND are competent with writing reprots (Yes, there will be paperwork)

What’s In It For You?

Oh, we look after our people, big time.

Flexibility: you can work from community, clinic and home and in a way that works for you

Excellent remuneration: Generous salary, car allowance, laptop, phone + salary packaging

Career progression: PD, growth, pathways within Ability Action Australia & our MedHealth family

Feel-good culture: Purpose-driven team, uplifting vibe, great banter

Feeling Excited? Because We Are!

Apply now to become part of a team that changes lives, including yours

Qualifications

Additional Information

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 4,000 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 LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.