The organisation is seeking a positive behavior support practitioner who is passionate about working towards quality outcomes with NDIS participants. Join a growing multi-disciplinary team reaching clients at home, schools, aged care facilities, prison, and other community visits to provide behaviour support planning. Enjoy managing your own time with flexible working arrangements, whilst meeting clients where they are at.
The role:
Provide Positive Behaviour Supports (PBS):
- Provide specialist behaviour supports, prepare interim and comprehensive behaviour support plans, carry out expert functional behaviour analyses, and manage NDIS requirements.
- Manage cases/clients allocated, including ensuring hours available are well planned and utilised, assessing and prioritising needs and supports, assisting clients in obtaining additional hours where clinically indicated, ensuring all tasks are planned and delivered in a timely manner, and maintaining good communication level with clients and stakeholders.
- Plan and carry out comprehensive behaviour assessments, including clinical interviews, collecting and analysing data, psychometric administration, and observation/interaction sessions.
- Provide behaviour support planning, including in the development of strategies, running sessions to test and refine strategies, and writing behaviour support plans or other behavioural reports.
- Plan and implement strategies outlined in support plans and reports, including providing training and consultation to client and core support team, and making materials for the implementation.
- Take a multi-component approach to PBS and provide management of stakeholders involved in cases,
- Monitor, evaluate, and review effectiveness of strategies, including planning and preparing ongoing data collection from users of the support strategies, analysing and reviewing ongoing information received, refining and implementing updated strategies, and updating written documents.
- Prepare comprehensive behavioural intervention and therapy plans, that can be implemented by a junior staff member
- Oversee implementation of behavioural intervention and therapy plans, while retaining main responsibilities for case management.
Requirements:
- Applications for this role are open to male candidates only under Section 28 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010.
- 1 – 2 years of case management experience
- Driver’s licence with no restrictions
- Registration through APHRA or relevant body
- Own car with active registration and appropriately insured
- Own laptop with adequate security systems in place
- Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook)
- Double covid vaccination
What you will get in return:
- Work for a value driven organization
- Above award rate salary
- Implement plans to impact real changes in people’s lives
- Work in a community-based role
- Monthly supervision provided by experienced professionals
- Training support on a fortnightly basis
We endeavour to work with people who reflect the diversity of the organisations we partner with, and the people they support. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability and lived experience to apply.