Behaviour Support Practitioner

Ability Action Australia; City of Banyule; Hybrid; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Laptop provided

Phone

Job summary

Ability Action Australia is seeking a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner to support NDIS participants across Melbourne and surrounding areas. You will develop and deliver evidence-based support plans within a multidisciplinary team, champion reducing restrictive practices, and help participants achieve meaningful goals.

You will read and create behaviour support plans, write reports, and work flexibly across community settings, clinics, and home visits.

Qualifications

• Experience reading or creating, implementing or reviewing behaviour support plans.
• Passion for disability support and helping participants.
• Ability to write clear reports and communicate with families and carers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver evidence-based support plans.
• Create meaningful goals using a positive behaviour support framework.
• Build capacity in support networks and families.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.
• Reduce restrictive practices where appropriate.

Skills

Report writing

Disability support

Behaviour support

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Challenging behaviours

Education

OT / Speech Pathology / Psychology / Social Work degree

Job description

We are a national therapy services provider. Every day and in many ways, we are here to help NDIS participants – children, adolescents and adults (0-65 years) – get more out of life today! Help us help others to improve their access, development, independence, and overall health and wellbeing, and function.

Job Description

As a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, you will be responsible for providing support to participants, carers and families in the following ways.

• Evaluating, developing & delivering evidence‑based support plans
• Creating meaningful goals using a positive behaviour support framework
• Building capacity in the people who support our participants, families, carers, friends, support workers
• Working alongside a brilliant multidisciplinary team
• Championing the reduction (and elimination!) of restrictive practices

And, because we like to keep it real:

This is NOT a stepping stone to becoming a psychologist.

It’s a meaningful, legitimate, highly skilled career all on its own.

About You

You’ll thrive with us if you:

• Have a degree in OT, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Social Work or similar
• Live within a 20 minute radius of either Melton
• Have experience reading or creating, implementing or reviewing behaviour support plans
• Have a genuine passion for disability support
• Have experience working with challenging behaviours
• Love working with humans AND are competent with writing reports (Yes, there will be paperwork)

What’s In It For You?

• Flexibility: you can work from community, clinic and home and in a way that works for you
• Excellent remuneration: Generous salary, car allowance, laptop, phone + salary packaging
• Career progression: PD, growth, pathways within Ability Action Australia & our MedHealth family
• Feel‑good culture: Purpose‑driven team, uplifting vibe, great banter

Feeling Excited? Because We Are!

You are welcome here. Our fast‑growing team of more than 4,000 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 LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

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