Behaviour Support Practitioner

Our Positive Behaviour Support Model encompasses the multidisciplinary expertise of Behaviour Support Practitioners, Occupational Therapists and Speech Pathologists to understand the drivers of behaviours from a communication, sensory and environmental perspective.

Outcomes Connect Australia (OCA) expanded into Queensland from Victoria in 2024. Thanks to our commitment to service excellence, demand for our services is increasing so we now need to recruit another Behaviour Support Practitioner living in Mount Gravatt or a surrounding suburb ideally.

We will consider an entry level practitioner (i.e. someone with a sound knowledge of The Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework for reducing the use of restrictive practices) OR an experienced Behaviour Support Practitioner, who also has a strong commitment to delivering evidence-based, functional behavioural outcomes.

As a Behaviour Support Practitioner you will...

• Support our clients (NDIS participants), along with their families and / or carers, to identify their needs through assessment and person-centred planning
• Identify meaningful goals and practical strategies utilising The Positive Behaviour Support Capability Famework, with a commitment to eliminate restrictive practices, in the home and community
• Develop, deliver and evaluate evidence-based support plans within a complex support space
• Ensure individual plans reflect our clients' goals, passions and strengths
• Build the knowledge, capacity and strengths of those who support our clients - family, carers, friends, etc
• Why Join Us?
• Fantastic team culture
• a fun, supportive and quality-focused team which works together to achieve goals
• Generous salary package
• above award rates, rewards for outstanding work, great benefits (e.g. $600 annual Health and Wellbeing subsidy), access to salary packaging options and the latest technology to ensure you succeed
• Personal and professional growth
• supporting your ongoing professional development and enabling you to do the work you're most inspired by through our professional development program, fortnightly PD sessions and weekly supervision with your Team Lead
• Work-life balance
• flexible work arrangements to plan your work to best suit your lifestyle while also meeting the needs of your team and clients
• About you
• Current suitability (i.e. registration) with the NDIS Commission as a Behaviour Support Practitioner OR considerable experience providing support to people with behaviours of concern (professionally and / or personally) and confident that you will meet all compliance checks to legally work as a Behaviour Support Practitioner for a registered NDIS provider (e.g. obtain a NDIS Worker Screening Check)
• Demonstrated ability to work positively in a multidisciplinary team
• Outstanding communication, influencing and interpersonal skills
• Confident computer skills
• Flawless writing skills
• Current Drivers Licence and own reliable vehicle
• Qualifications
• Degree level qualifications of relevance to providing supports to people with behaviours of concern are highly preferred
• Additional Information
• 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.