Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner – Core / Proficient (West)

Location : West (Sunshine / Yarraville) Region

Vacancy Type : Permanent - Full time / Part Time (Hybrid)

Job reference : 494744

Salary Range

• SBS Practitioner Core : $66,373.36 – $78,865.70 plus superannuation and salary packaging
• SBS Practitioner Proficient : $83,931.32 – $101,506.73 plus superannuation and salary packaging

Travel within a 30‑minute NDIS cap is reimbursed, making this role suitable for candidates living in or around Sunshine / Yarraville.

Make a Difference!

Join Yooralla as a Specialist Behaviour Support (SBS) Practitioner and empower people with disabilities through Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). In this role, you’ll work collaboratively with individuals, families, and support teams to understand behaviours of concern and co-design strategies that promote dignity, autonomy, inclusion, and well‑being. You’ll be responsible for developing and implementing evidence‑based behaviour support plans that are person‑centred, trauma‑informed, and aligned with each person’s goals and quality of life.

Become part of a team that values reflective practice, relational work, and sustainable, rights‑based support.

Key Responsibilities

Mandatory Requirements

A Core or Proficient Practitioner must demonstrate attainment of completed self‑assessment and endorsed according to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) PBS Capability Framework as either all domains “capability met” at the Core Level or as “developing” in their competencies and knowledge at the Proficient Level.

To find out more about this role or working with Yooralla, please contact Josie Van Der Wal on Josie.VanDerWal@yooralla.com.au.

Why Yooralla?

As one of Victoria’s most established disability service providers, Yooralla has over 100 years of experience supporting people with disabilities to live the lives they choose. We value diversity and inclusion, and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, abilities, and identities, including people with disabilities, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.

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Yooralla and Berry Street, two of Victoria’s most respected and long‑standing social service providers, have merged – in a transformative step forward in meeting current and emerging community needs. The merger will enable us to deliver greater impact, expand our services, and create more opportunities for professional growth and development.

Berry Street Yooralla acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People as the Traditional Custodians of the lands across Victoria where our services are located, and pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past, present and future. Yooralla is committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands Peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to Berry Street Yooralla and our society.

About Yooralla

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Established in 1918, Yooralla is one of Australia’s largest and most proactive organisations working to support people with disability to live independent and fulfilling lives. Yooralla values the right of every person, irrespective of age, gender, financial circumstance or level of disability, to access high‑quality services that will allow them to achieve their goals. Yooralla's services are developed in partnership with people with disability and in many cases, their families and carers. Yoorallaprovides essential services for people of all ages and disability, regardless of whether a person is born with or acquires a disability as the result of accident, ill health or age.

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