Specialist Behaviour Support Practitioner - Position Description

Complex Care is a Brisbane based practice that provides therapy and consultancy services specifically tailored to children who have experienced trauma and the carers/professionals who support them. In addition to providing children and young people with counselling/clinical services, Complex Care trains and supports organisations, families, and carers, to provide our community's most vulnerable children and young people with evidence based therapeutic care.

The focus of this role is to support NDIS participants to reduce significantly harmful or persistent behaviours in the least restrictive way, while prioritising the participants quality of life, through the delivery of intensive person-centred intervention, and through the development, review and maintenance of positive behaviour support plans. In addition to those key functions/responsibilities required as a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, this role has also involved the following: -

• Utilise a range of clinical tools and sources to collect and integrate behavioural data and develop a comprehensive profile of a participant’s behaviour, their developmental history, relationships, care environment, and their underlying emotional, sensory, cognitive/neurodevelopmental and attachment needs.

• Develop clear evidence-based positive behaviour support strategies that: - mitigate the risk of harm to the participant and others in the least intrusive way; - support the provision of an optimal therapeutic care environment and response from professionals/care-givers; - responds to the underlying needs of the participant and supports them to build critical relational and self-regulation skills.

• Provide implementation training to the participant and their supports that is tailored to the audiences’ learning style and capacity, provides a deeper understanding of the participants underlying needs (depersonalises behaviours) 4 and clear practical strategies for responding to their behaviours across different care environments and states of escalation.

• Monitor and review the participant’s behaviours/needs and the capacity of their care team, and evaluate the ongoing effectiveness of the plan, with the goal of continuously improving the participant’s capacity and quality of life, while phasing out any restrictive practices.

Take a practice lead in supporting other Behaviour Support Practitioners within the organisation and assist our clinical director with reviewing behaviour support plans, policies, procedures and processes.

Requirements for this position Include:

Registration at a minimum core practitioner level, and previous experience drafting positive behaviour support plans or providing specialist behaviour support to children and young people.

Working with Children's Check

Experience/Interest in working with complex and at times high risk individuals who are engaged with forensic and mental health systems.

Benefits working with Complex Care:

As part of this role, training, mentoring and ongoing professional development opportunities will be provided.

Being part of a warm, supportive and leading team of allied health professionals.

Flexible working hours / written work and case co-ordination can be completed from your home office.

Regular social events and team functions.

Healthy renumeration including travel payments.

Work as a part time employee or contractor

If you feel you are the right fit for this job, please email CV and cover letter through to Brett Sceats. [email protected] - Applications close 27 April 2025 NB: Suitable candidates will need to be Brisbane based as this role requires client contact and stakeholder facilitation.