Behaviour Support Practitioner

About CareChoice CareChoice is a NDIS, DFFH / Human Services Standard and TAC/ WorkSafe registered disability provider. We deliver a wide range of services and provide complex support across the Disability sector in a range of settings including home care, residential, community and Specialist Disability Accommodation. CareChoice is committed to service excellence and works closely with clients, their families, and key stakeholders to ensure individuals receive the very best person-centred care. The CareChoice team are passionate about their work and pride themselves in delivering an exceptional calibre of service. Our values: Our philosophy of service provision is based upon our values of:

• People, First
• Brilliant Together
• Bring Our Best. Always
• Relentless Optimism

Benefits & culture CareChoice is proud to be an EEO employer. We support an inclusive approach in the workplace. We celebrate our diversity and welcome staff regardless of ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity and lifestyle choices. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. As a CareChoice employee, benefits you’ll be able to take advantage of include:

• Access to your pay as you earn it via our financial wellbeing partner
• Employee Pathways Scholarships
• Employee Support Fund
• Free ongoing training and development
• Paid Pregnancy loss leave for either parent
• Flexible work options
• A number of employee wellness platforms including EAP, free flu shots and travel discounts
• Discounts with several department store retailers, events & entertainment, home & technology
• Further discounts with groceries & beverages, shopping & fashion, sports & leisure, fuel and transport
• Car, health insurance and energy benefits
• Monthly & Annual Recognition & Reward for Employee of the Month
• Service Recognition & Reward Program
• Career development opportunities including secondments and Job-Ride-A-Long program

From the moment you step through our doors, you’ll feel welcome and supported to do your best work and really make a difference in people’s lives. How you’ll make an impact The primary role of the Behaviour Support Practitioner is to provide expertise to staff in positive behaviour support and therapeutic support. The role will require use of knowledge and experience to provide evidence and behaviour-based supports to clients in different environments and will focus on person-centred interventions to address the underlying causes of behaviours of concern or challenging behaviours. This role will work with Disability clients and have a case load of NDIS participants. A day in the life as our Behaviour Support Practitioner with CareChoice, some of your key responsibilities in this role include:

• Developing individualised strategies for people with disability that are responsive to the person’s needs, in a way that reduces the occurrence and impact of behaviours of concern and minimises the use of restrictive practices.
• Undertaking functional behavioural assessments to develop behaviour support plans containing evidence-based, proactive and reactive strategies that meet the specific needs of the person displaying behaviour of concern.
• Developing, implementing, and monitoring behaviour support plans that meet CareChoice and NDIS requirements in consultation with the person with disability, their family, carers and other relevant people and service providers who will be implementing the plan.
• Developing person-centred interventions to address the underlying causes of behaviours of concern, while safeguarding the dignity and quality of life of people with disability who require specialist behaviour support.
• Ensuring that any interventions are in accordance with best practice, evidence-based contemporary positive behaviour support for individuals with behaviours of concern.
• Planning and delivering behaviour support approaches that comply with the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding Framework and OH&S legislation.
• Ensuring staff are appropriately trained to implement positive behaviour strategies or use restrictive practices.
• Facilitating planning and training events using approaches that promote team development, person centred thinking and positive behavioural support to develop individual plans and practical strategies leading to life enhancing outcomes.

About you As our Behaviour Support Practitioner, you will have a pro-active attitude, high degree of initiative and strong desire to achieve outstanding outcomes for our clients and staff, with a focus on person-centred interventions to address the underlying causes of behaviours of concern or challenging behaviours. Ideally, you’ll have:

• Tertiary qualification in Psychology qualified to deliver behaviour support services.
• Experience in the disability, counselling, family services or mental health sectors.
• Experience providing clinical supervision.

Qualifications required:

• Current Victorian Drivers Licence

To APPLY If this sounds like the ideal role for you and you have the skills and experience we’re looking for, we’d love to hear from you. To apply online, please click on the appropriate link below. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Joanne Thomson at quoting Ref No. 1186073. #J-18808-Ljbffr