Behaviour Support Practitioner

Welcome to Ability Action Australia!

We are one of the largest providers to the NDIS, supporting over 10,000 participants every year with the care they need, when and where it is needed. We have a multi-disciplinary team approach, building a quality support service around the needs and goals of our participants and their family.

Help us help others to improve their access, development, independence, and overall health and wellbeing, and function.

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Join our growing Adelaide Positive Behaviour Support team! We’re seeking a passionate practitioner who wants to make a genuine difference in people’s lives.

In this role, you’ll deliver tailored supports to NDIS participants throughout the Adelaide region.

What's in it for you?

• Flexibility - Hybrid working model, combine the convenience of working from home with the social interaction of working in the community & our clinic/ hubs. 
• Excellent remuneration – Generous base salary + car allowance + laptop + phone + CPD + bonuses + Reward and Recognition Program.
• Salary packaging - includes novated leasing and self education expenses.
• Career progression – Access to ongoing training tailored to your interests and long-term goals combined with professional development opportunities with Ability Action Australia and our parent company MedHealth.
• Passionate and uplifting culture – You will be part of a purpose and values driven team focused on delivering outstanding supports to participants.

Responsibilities will include:

• Supporting NDIS participants, along with their families and/or carers, to identify their needs through assessment and person-centred planning
• Evaluating, developing and delivering evidence-based support plans within a complex support space
• Developing meaningful goals and practical strategies as per the positive behaviour support framework, with a commitment to eliminate restrictive practices, in the home and community
• Ensuring individual plans reflect participants' goals, passions and strengths
• Building the knowledge, capacity and strengths of those who support participants in their lives - family, carers, friends, etc
• Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including mentoring less experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners

About you

• Completed a degree level qualification as an allied health professional is desired
• Report writing experience
• Excellent time management and organisational skills to manage a varied caseload
• Proactive attitude, motivated by improvement and the opportunity to test and learn from new ideas
• Genuine passion for working in the disability sector

Additional Information

Click on the Apply button or to discuss this exciting opportunity contact Benita Kempton on 0476 795 843

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 3,500 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.