Behaviour Support Practitioner – Proficient/Advanced – NSW and Sydney Metro

Salary – $85,000-$105,000 (depending on experience) + Super + Salary packaging

Work from your preferred location including Parramatta, Seven Hills, Hornsby, Campbelltown, Penrith, Albury, Wollongong & Sydney Metro.

Why work with us?
This not-for-profit disability service provider that works with customers to realise their potential. As one of Australia’s largest not-for-profit disability service organisations, we provide services from metropolitan and regional locations throughout NSW and the ACT. We have more than 85 years of experience and expertise in the disability service industry. A registered NDIS provider, we employ close to 1000 staff and provide empowering, personalised services to over 13,500 people with disability, their families and carers each year.

About the Role: A blurb on the role 2-3 lines

The organisation we are representing is looking for a Housing Officer, based in XYZ suburb.

Example: Recruiting experienced Housing Officers in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne (Fitzroy, Broadmeadows, Doreen) to join a multi-disciplinary team. This role will support the incoming referrals to the organisation, assessing risk and triaging appropriately for the Intake and Assessment team. There are both permanent ongoing and casual locum positions available.

Key duties:

• To provide supervision and support to Core and Proficient Behaviour Support Practitioners
• To provide Person Centred Behaviour Support to a complex caseload.
• To deliver Person Centred Behaviour support training as required.
• To network and build relationships with the local community as appropriate
• To work within a capacity building model with various other consumers, stakeholders and customers.
• To be involved in project work as identified

Skills & Experience: Bullet point list, up to 5, split into essential & desired

• Minimum ten years’ experience working with a diverse range of people with a disability including those with complex needs.
• Minimum five years’ experience working in a role that included behaviour support responsibilities.
• Minimum five years experience mentoring staff to implement Behaviour Support Plans.
• Experience working with customers, staff and families utilising a Positive Behaviour Support approach.
• Experience working within a Person Centred approach.
• A passion for a capacity building approach and customer rights.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a diverse caseload in an efficient and effective manner.
• Confidence using new technologies.\
• To be eligible to work as an NDIS Commission approved Advanced Practitioner.
• Tertiary Qualification in Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Nursing, Social or Health Sciences and/or Completed or currently completing Positive Approach to Behaviour Support Core Standard including appraisal process (FACS); or CHCDIS006 -and experience in the disability and/or community sector.
• Current driver’s license

You will also have or be willing to undergo a Working with Children Check and a Police Check.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Demonstrate an ability to be able to work with clients with complex behaviours.
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Problem Solving Skills

How to apply:

Email your resume to Kate Phaedona at [email protected]

TRADEWIND AUSTRALIA AND THE ORGANISATIONS WE REPRESENT ARE PROUD TO BE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYERS.

We welcome applications from 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.