Practice Advisor - Therapeutic

About the role

As the Practice Advisor - Therapeutic, you will play a key role in strengthening therapeutic practice across selectability by providing expert guidance, coaching, and practice leadership to teams supporting people with complex needs. Working as part of the Care Governance & Safeguarding team, you will help embed evidence-informed, trauma-informed, and person-centred approaches that enhance safety, wellbeing, inclusion, and quality of life. This role focuses on building workforce capability, supporting service excellence, and driving continuous improvement through the development of effective practice frameworks, resources, and therapeutic models of care. Through collaboration, consultation, and specialist expertise, you will empower regional teams to confidently navigate complex situations while delivering high-quality outcomes for the people we support.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Providing specialist therapeutic leadership and advice to support safe, person-centred, and evidence-informed practice across services
• Supporting regional teams to respond effectively to complex therapeutic needs, risks, and behavioural challenges.
• Supporting trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, strengths-based, and therapeutic approaches that promote wellbeing and positive outcomes
• Building workforce capability through coaching, mentoring, consultation, and practice development initiatives
• Contributing to the development and continuous improvement of therapeutic frameworks, resources, tools, and models of care
• Promoting best-practice approaches that enhance emotional wellbeing, inclusion, participation, independence, and quality of life
• Supporting the implementation of therapeutic strategies that strengthen safety, regulation, connection, and resilience for the people we support
• Fostering collaborative relationships with families, carers, stakeholders, and multidisciplinary professionals to achieve positive outcomes
• Providing specialist insights to inform service improvement, quality outcomes, and organisational learning
• Maintaining contemporary therapeutic practice knowledge and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and professional excellence

About you

To be considered for this rewarding role you will have:

• Demonstrated experience providing specialist practice advice, consultation and support in complex service environments
• Experience coaching, mentoring and developing workforces to strengthen capability, judgement and confidence
• Sound understanding of contemporary person-centred, trauma-informed and rights-based practice approaches
• Demonstrated ability to apply legislation, standards, policy and professional frameworks to complex practice situations
• Sound knowledge of the Human Services Quality Framework (HSQF), NDIS Practice Standards and other relevant regulatory frameworks
• Strong communication, relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem solving and continuous improvement capability
• Commitment to a systems focused, no blame approach to safety, quality and organisational learning
• Experience across multiple service systems including disability, child and family care, mental health and aged care (desirable)
• Experience developing practice frameworks, tools, resources, training or capability building programs (desirable)
• Experience working within governance, safeguarding or quality improvement environments (desirable)

Role requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology/Social Work/Occupational Therapy/Behaviour Support/Human Services or related discipline
• Professional registration required where applicable
• Travel to selectability sites as required
• Child Safety & Personal History Screening check
• Positive Notice Working with Children (blue card) (or the ability to obtain)
• NDIS Worker Screening Clearance (or the ability to obtain)
• NDIS Worker Orientation Module "Quality, Safety & You" completion certificate (or the ability to obtain)
• Current minimum P1 "C" class Queensland drivers licence

About the offer

The Practice Advisor – Therapeutic is a Fulltime position based in Townsville.

We offer a range of benefits including:

• Salary will be commensurate to experience + super
• Up to $15,900 FBT salary packaging benefits
• Access to fitness passport
• Flexible working arrangements 
• Career pathways and opportunities for development
• Employee assistance program offering confidential counselling support for employees 

Applying

If this sounds like you, please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your skills and experience and why you are the best person for this role. 

If you would like more information, please contact selectability's HR Business Partner Josh Cannon on 07 4453 0100 or by email hrcorporate@selectability.com.au 

About us

selectability is a not-for-profit charity with a primary focus of improving mental wellbeing and contributing to suicide prevention across regional Queensland.

We believe everyone has the right to access high-quality supports locally and have recently expanded our services to include child safety, and residential aged care in the Lower Gulf.

selectability is committed to creating safe environments where young people feel protected, respected and heard. The successful applicant will be responsible for quality service delivery to young people, recipients, older persons, families, and the community within selectability.

We value lived experience, cultural knowledge and diversity within our workforce as part of strengthening safe and inclusive practice.

If you would like to know more, please visit our website.