Behaviour Support Practitioner

Ability Action Australia; City Of Stirling; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Salary & benefits

Work-life balance

Career growth

Culture & team

Job summary

Ability Action Australia is seeking a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner to join our community-based team supporting NDIS participants across Australia. You will evaluate, develop and deliver evidence-based support plans, setting meaningful goals and building capacity within the support network.

Working with a multidisciplinary team, you will champion reducing restrictive practices while navigating paperwork with clarity and compassion.

Qualifications

• Hold a degree in allied health or a related field.
• Have experience reading, implementing, reviewing or creating behaviour support plans.
• Hold NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner status.
• Don't yet have BSP registration? That's okay- we can help you get there.
• Have a genuine passion for disability support.
• Have experience working with complex and challenging behaviours.
• Love working with people and love writing (yes, there will be paperwork).

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Disability support

Behaviour support

Documentation

Team collaboration

Writing skills

Education

Degree in allied health or related field

Job description

Welcome to Ability Action Australia, where we help NDIS participants (0-65 years) get more out of life, more independence, more confidence, more growth, more wins.

Every day, we're in the community helping people do life better... and honestly, it feels pretty epic.

Job Description

As a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, you'll be a supporter, a strategist, a behaviour detective and occasionally the person who teaches everyone to breathe again after a breakdown.

Your work will be meaningful, hands-on, and genuinely life-changing for the people you support.

What you'll be doing

• 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

You’ll thrive with us if you:

• Hold a degree in allied health or a related field
• Have experience reading, implementing, reviewing or creating behaviour support plans
• Hold NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner status
• Don't yet have BSP registration? That's okay- we can help you get there
• Have a genuine passion for disability support
• Have experience working with complex and challenging behaviours
• Love working with people and love writing (yes, there will be paperwork)

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

We look after our people - properly.

• Flexibility: Enjoy a hybrid working model that combines the convenience of working from home with meaningful connection in the community.
• Excellent remuneration: Generous salary, car allowance, laptop, phone + salary packaging
• Work-life balance: Work from home, the office, clinics or even your favourite café...choose what works best for you.
• Career growth: Ongoing professional development, clear progression opportunities, and pathways across Ability Action Australia and the MedHealth family.
• Culture: A purpose-driven, supportive, and uplifting team - full of good humans who have your back.

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.