Behaviour Support Practitioner

Ability Action Australia; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 60,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Ability Action Australia is a national therapy provider expanding its Behaviour Support team across Melbourne’s west and north-west. You’ll join a structured 12‑month development program to become a confident Behaviour Support Practitioner, starting January 2027, with training, supervision and support.

We invest in your future career by funding university study and paying you while you study. Through a partnership with the University of Melbourne, you can complete Micro‑Credentials in Behaviour

Qualifications

• A relevant qualification such as Social Work, Psychology, Psychological Science, Mental Health Care Nursing or another related degree.
• Some experience working with people with disability.
• A current driver’s licence.
• Your own fully insured vehicle.
• Great communication and relationship-building skills.
• A genuine interest in Positive Behaviour Support.
• A willingness to learn and grow.

Responsibilities

• You’ll work alongside people with disability, their families and support networks to understand behaviour and create practical strategies that make a meaningful difference in everyday life.
• With plenty of support, you’ll learn to: Work within a Positive Behaviour Support framework, Complete assessments and develop evidence-based Behaviour Support Plans, Create meaningful goals and practical strategies, Work towards reducing and eliminating restrictive practices, Build the skills and confidence of families, carers and support teams, Develop your report writing and clinical reasoning skills, Collaborate with a multidisciplinary allied health team.

Skills

Communication

Relationship-building

Disability experience

Willingness to learn

Driver's license

Education

Social Work degree

Psychology degree

Job description

We are a national therapy provider helping children and adults. We support people with disability to achieve meaningful goals and get more out of life. Great careers start with great support. We’ll invest in yours.

Job Description

Want to become a Behaviour Support Practitioner, but don’t currently hold a Behaviour Support Practitioner registration?

Perfect. We’ll help you sort that out.

Ability Action Australia is growing our Behaviour Support team across Melbourne’s west and north‑west, and we’re looking for people ready to build a career in Positive Behaviour Support.

Starting January 2027, you’ll join our structured 12‑month development program, designed to give you the training, supervision and support you need to become a confident Behaviour Support Practitioner.

We invest in your future career.

We don’t expect you to arrive knowing everything.

You’ll learn alongside experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners and a multidisciplinary allied health team, with regular supervision and structured development throughout your first year.

And there’s something else we’re particularly proud of.

Through our partnership with the University of Melbourne, you’ll have the opportunity to complete Micro‑Credentials in Behaviour Support.

We pay for your university study.

And we pay you while you study.

Because when we say we invest in your career, we mean it.

What will you actually be doing?

You’ll work alongside people with disability, their families and support networks to understand behaviour and create practical strategies that make a meaningful difference in everyday life.

With plenty of support, you’ll learn to:

• Work within a Positive Behaviour Support framework
• Complete assessments and develop evidence‑based Behaviour Support Plans
• Create meaningful goals and practical strategies
• Work towards reducing and eliminating restrictive practices
• Build the skills and confidence of families, carers and support teams
• Develop your report writing and clinical reasoning skills
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary allied health team

Where will you work?

This is a genuinely hybrid role – a mix of:

• Office / Clinic
• Home
• Community

Our Caroline Springs team supports participants across Melbourne’s west and north‑west, including:

• Keilor
• Deer Park
• Sunshine
• St Albans
• Footscray
• Point Cook
• Caroline Springs
• Brunswick West
• Essendon
• Tullamarine

A little about you

Maybe you’re a recent graduate with some experience working in disability.

Maybe you’re currently working in disability, mental health, community services or another people‑focused role and know Behaviour Support is where you want your career to go.

You don’t need to come to us currently registered as a Behaviour Support Practitioner.

That’s the whole point.

You’ll need:

• A relevant qualification such as Social Work, Psychology, Psychological Science, Mental Health Care Nursing or another related degree
• Some experience working with people with disability
• A current driver’s licence
• Your own fully insured vehicle
• Great communication and relationship‑building skills
• A genuine interest in Positive Behaviour Support
• A willingness to learn and grow

A note for Provisional Psychologists

Your psychology background can provide a great foundation for Behaviour Support, but Behaviour Support is a career pathway in its own right.

This role isn’t a stepping stone into a Psychology position. We’re looking for people who genuinely want to build their career in Positive Behaviour Support.

What do you get?

• Structured 12‑month development program
  Training, supervision and support while you build your Behaviour Support capability.
• University of Melbourne Micro‑Credentials
  We cover the study costs and pay you while you study.
• Regular supervision
  Experienced practitioners and a multidisciplinary team to learn from and lean on.
• Hybrid working
  A genuine mix of office, clinic, community and working from home.
• A career with room to grow
  Professional development and career opportunities across Ability Action Australia and the broader MedHealth group.
• Work that matters
  Build your career while helping people with disability achieve meaningful change in their everyday lives.

Additional Information

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.