Behaviour Support Practitioner

Experience Level: Entry Level | Posted Date: 14/04/2025

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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.

Job Description

Ability Action Australia is a growing company with a great culture, along with unlimited professional development and career advancement opportunities for aspiring clinicians.

We are searching for our next Behaviour Support Practitioner to work with NDIS participants in and around the NNSW region in a community based setting.

This role will see you travel around Ballina, west to Lismore and Casino, but may also require travel up the coast towards Mullumbimby... we will welcome applications from BSP's who are based within this area. 

Previous experience working as a BSP is a must for this role, as this role will see you working with adults and children with disabilities and challenging behaviours.

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:

• Benefits – Professional Development allowance, staff referral scheme, Fitness Passport… just to name a few
• Flexibility & Work-life balance – Combine the convenience of working from home with the social interaction of working in the community plus the support of a local hub
• Excellent remuneration – Industry leading salary + km reimbursement + laptop + smartphone + Performance with Purpose Reward and Recognition Program + salary packaging options
• 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 NDIS participants

Qualifications

To be considered suitable you will have:

• Minimum of CORE suitability + Experience working in the NDIS and supporting those with disabilities and challenging behaviours 
• Understanding of Behaviour Support and Restrictive Practices 
• 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

Additional Information

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

Click on the Apply button OR call me - Renee Sinclair - on 0429 293 152 - OR email me via [email protected] . 

If your resume is not quite up-to-date, you can add me on LinkedIn for a more informal conversation -https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-sinclair-84200a243/

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.