About the Role
The Behaviour Support Practitioner (Social Worker) provides specialist behaviour support and psychosocial intervention services to people with disability under the NDIS framework. The role involves undertaking behavioural, psychosocial, and environmental assessments; developing evidence-informed behaviour support strategies; reducing behaviours of concern and restrictive practices; strengthening participant quality of life and community inclusion; and collaborating with families, support teams, allied health professionals, and community stakeholders to deliver person-centred and human rights-based supports.
Duties and Responsibilities
· Conduct comprehensive behavioural, psychosocial, and environmental assessments to identify participant strengths, support needs, risks, and factors contributing to behaviours of concern.
· Develop, implement, monitor, and review behaviour support plans and intervention strategies that are evidence-informed, person-centred, trauma-informed, and aligned with NDIS requirements.
· Work collaboratively with participants, families, carers, support teams, allied health professionals, service providers, and community stakeholders to improve quality of life, wellbeing, independence, and community participation.
· Provide advocacy, referral, counselling-informed support, mediation, and strengths-based intervention where required to assist participants and families to address personal, social, environmental, or service-related barriers.
· Coordinate and facilitate access to relevant NDIS, therapeutic, health, housing, welfare, and community services to support participant goals and reduce unmet support needs.
· Develop proactive strategies to reduce the occurrence and impact of behaviours of concern while supporting the reduction and elimination of restrictive practices wherever safe and appropriate.
· Prepare, review, and where required lodge behaviour support plans involving regulated restrictive practices in accordance with NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission requirements.
· Provide training, coaching, and practice guidance to support teams and stakeholders to promote consistent implementation of positive behaviour support strategies, restrictive practice safeguards, and person-centred practice.
· Monitor behavioural data, incident reports, participant progress, risks, and stakeholder feedback to inform ongoing assessment, review, and modification of support strategies.
· Maintain accurate case notes, assessments, reports, behaviour support plans, risk documentation, and other records in accordance with organisational, legislative, and NDIS compliance requirements.
· Participate in multidisciplinary meetings, supervision, professional development, and continuous improvement activities.
· Uphold human rights, dignity, cultural safety, participant choice and control, social justice, and ethical practice in all aspects of service delivery.
About You
· Relevant tertiary qualification in Social Work
· Current NDIS Worker Screening Check
· Current Working with Children Clearance / Ochre Card
· Current First Aid and CPR certificate, or willingness to obtain
· Eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers where the role is undertaken within the Social Work stream
· Current suitability as an NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner, or the ability to obtain suitability through an approved NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission assessment pathway
· Demonstrated knowledge of the NDIS framework, the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, restrictive practice requirements, and disability support services
· Demonstrated experience completing assessments, developing support plans preparing reports, and delivering interventions for people with disability and/or complex psychosocial or behavioural support needs.
Desirable
· Experience working within the NDIS behaviour support sector
· Experience supporting people with disability, complex trauma, mental health needs, forensic involvement, or complex family and service systems
· Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, or experience delivering staff training and professional development
Pay: $90,000.00 – $100,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
