Behaviour Support Practitioner. Permanent Full Time - Cairns or Townsville

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Permanent full-time Behaviour Support Practitioner position where you will be surrounded by support from a National Behaviour Intervention Support team, allowing you to effectively assess, design, evaluate and monitor behaviour support plans and interventions to provide positive outcomes for clients and reduce and eliminate restrictive practices wherever possible.

This role will cover Cairns and Townsville areas and provides flexibility to work from either home or one of our offices in these areas – wherever you work best. However, as you will hold a case load that includes travel to clients you will need to travel as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical knowledge, expertise and support to clients in a range of Life Without Barriers Disability programs as well as external providers
• Complete assessments (including data collection and analysis) of risk and behaviours of concern
• Design, deliver and monitor interventions and strategies for the purpose of supporting people with a disability to achieve a greater quality of life, in those who present with behaviours of concern
• Work within the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Commission requirements, the NDIA terms of business and any State Based Restrictive Practice Authorisation requirements
• Provide training and support to staff, teachers, parents and other relevant stakeholders in positive behaviour interventions, behaviour support plans, restrictive practices, risk and safety plans
• Collaborate with all relevant stakeholders (including family, staff, teachers and other health and allied health professionals) in order to ensure best outcomes for the clients

 

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in allied health professions such as Psychology, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or equivalent experience that meets the requirements of the NDIS Commission PBS Capability Framework
• Be a Registered Behaviour Support Practitioner through the NDIS Commission Capability Framework, preferably at proficient level or above
• Current QLD driver’s license
• Demonstrated experience (or relevant experience) in the delivery of behaviour support services to individuals with a range of disabilities
• Experience working in a culturally sensitive manner with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and/or a willingness to work and train in culturally appropriate approaches
• Demonstrated working knowledge of the Safeguarding requirements of the National Disability Insurance Agency
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Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check. 

Benefits

• Join a national behaviour support team, learning from and being supported by colleagues all over the country
• Regular in-house individual supervision and scheduled professional development sessions
• Optional Monthly rostered days off
• Flexibility to work from home 

How to Apply

Include your resume and cover letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries relating to the position, contact recruitment@lwb.org.au.

Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.

Applications close midnight Monday the 16th of November