Behaviour Support Practitioner

Welcome to Ability Action Australia!

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.

As a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, you will be responsible for providing support to participants, carers and families int he followign ways.

You’ll be doing things like:

✨ 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 reprots (Yes, there will be paperwork)

What’s In It For You?

Oh, we look after our people, big time.

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.