Behaviour Support Practitioner - Team Lead

Outcomes Connect Australia is a multidisciplinary allied health practice which is committed to delivering best-practice, outcome-focused services.  We are renowned for the exceptional support we provide and our commitment to ensuring our clients achieve their goals!

We are a highly collaborative team who love what we do and support every clinician to thrive in their role.  We provide tailored clinical supervision and professional development to support the needs of each individual clinician.

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.  We are excited to announce that the expansion means growth of our Queensland Behaviour Support team so we are now looking to recruit an experienced Behaviour Support Practitioner living in Toowoomba who will lead our new team of practitioners in the Toowoomba area.

The successful applicant will be required to work a minimum of 4 days/week.

As a Team Lead for Postive Behaviour Support, you will be required to support and lead a team of Behaviour Support Practitioners to deliver evidence-based, person-centred positive behaviour supports to OCA clients in the community.

Your role will also entail...

• undertaking the support for your own reduced caseload of clients of all ages with exceptional evidence-based, person-centred positive behaviour supports
• identifying, providing input, and implementing ongoing quality improvement opportunities for service delivery by OCA
• providing leadership that optimises individual potential and supports your team to thrive as practitioners whilst working collaboratively with the leadership group to optimise the quality of supports
• ensuring OCA provides a workplace that is safe, healthy and respectful, along with actively contributing to growing the culture of being a fun, people-focused and stimulating place to work

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 a dedicated supervisor
• 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 Proficient or Advanced suitability as a Behaviour Support Practitioner with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
• Demonstration of alignment to the company's vision to deliver evidence-based, outcome-focused supports which enable individuals and their significant others to live their best lives
• Developed leadership skills
• Demonstrated commitment to being a team player
• Substantial experience in the provision of positive behaviour supports as recognised by the The Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework
• Ability to demonstrate up-to-date evidence-based clinical skills
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication (written and verbal) and problem solving skills
• Commitment to continuing professional development

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• Degree level qualifications of relevance to providing supports to people with behaviours of concern are highly preferred

If you are interested in a role with our supportive team, please submit your application online or contact me - Clare Neal - via 0436 465 647 or [email protected] with any queries.

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.