Behaviour Support Practitioner
MedHealth
Company Description
Welcome to Ability Action Australia!
We are a national therapy services provider. Every day and in many ways, we are here to help NDIS participants – children, adolescents and adults (0-65 years) – get more out of life today! Help us help others to improve their access, development, independence, and overall health and wellbeing, and function.
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!
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.
