Behaviour Support Practitioner

About the Organisation
Empowering people with disability to live life the way they choose is at the heart of how Life Without Barriers has operated for over 25 years. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and continue this mission. Support people with disability to have the choice, control, and independence to live their best life. If you’re passionate about inclusivity, respect, and making a meaningful difference, this is the career move for you.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose 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. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.  

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

As a registered Behaviour Support Practitioner, 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 is a permanent full-time role with flexibility to work from home. However, regular travel will be required to clients throughout Sydney as well as occasional travel to Mudgee and Orange. A case load is also held on Norfolk Island so the successful candidate will have the opportunity to travel and spend a work week on a south pacific island every 3-4 months.   

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 (Psychology preferred)
• Current registration as a Behaviour Support Practitioner
• Experience in the delivery of positive Behaviour Supports to people with disabilities
• Previous experience working with children with disabilities highly regarded
• Demonstrated working knowledge of the Safeguarding requirements of the National Disability Insurance Agency
• Current driver’s license

Benefits

• Hybrid work from home arrangements
• Annual professional development budget
• Regular in-house individual supervision and quarterly full day professional development training
• Opportunity for secondary supervision for provisionally registered psychologists
• Join a national Behaviour Support team, learning from and being supported by colleagues all over the country
• Spend a work week once every 3-4 months on subtropical Norfolk Island in the South Pacific (budget provided for flights, accommodation and meals)

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Mikaella Latimore at ***********@lwb.org.au.

Applications close at midnight on 18th of February, 2024  

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.