Are you ready to make a difference with your positive attitude and collaborative spirit? At Multicap, we’re looking for a dedicated Specialist Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner to join our dynamic team in Canterbury, VIC.

We offer competitive salary packages and full salary sacrifice options to boost your take-home pay. Join us and be part of a team that believes everyone deserves to live life to the fullest!

What You'll Be Doing:

As a specialist positive behaviour support practitioner you will supervise and mentor practitioners include those seeking CBA/BCBA registration through reflective and ethical practice, individual and group supervision. Additionally, you will provide expert, evidence-based clinical advice to individuals with disabilities, their families, and support teams. You’ll play a key role in reducing the impact of challenging behaviours through innovative strategies and a deep understanding of contemporary behaviour support literature.

In This Role, You'll:

• Lead and supervise the Positive Behaviour Support team, ensuring professional development and high-quality support.
• Provide CBA/BCBA supervision in line with the certification requirements.
• Offer discipline-specific guidance and quality assurance to our Multicap Clinical Practice and Behaviour Support teams.
• Conduct thorough assessments to pinpoint the root causes of challenging behaviours and develop effective, individualized strategies.
• Coach and support families, support workers, and managers to enhance their skills in implementing behaviour support plans.
• Offer supervision and support to core and proficient practitioners
• Monitor and analyse data to assess and adjust behaviour support plans as needed.
• Achieve operational, clinical, legal, and financial performance targets

You will have the below:

• Be assessed against the NDIS capability framework as either a Specialist or Advanced practitioner
• Have high-level interpersonal skills and experience supporting people in situations of high emotions
• Demonstrate high-level communication skills to develop relationships with team members and stakeholders and deal with issues of a sensitive nature
• Demonstrate problem-solving skills to successfully identify problems, develop solutions and implement these using a logical and systematic approach in alignment with the PBS framework

What you will have to get started:

• Master's Degree in behavioural sciences
• A minimum of 2.5 years' experience in the discipline of providing Positive Behaviour Support
• Experience and knowledge of challenging behaviour and intellectual disability
• Demonstrated experience in coordinating the provision of support to people living with a disability and their families and support networks
• Current VIC Drivers Licence
• Current "Paid" Working with Children Check or ability to obtain
• Current "Paid" NDIS Worker Screening Clearance or ability to obtain
• NDIS Practitioner registration

Highly desirable

· Experience working with people with intellectual disability with high and complex needs

About Multicap:

Multicap are leaders in disability support and mental health services, providing individualised support, experiences, and opportunities for more than 8000 customers and clients across Queensland, northern New South Wales, and Victoria. What sets us apart is the unwavering quality of care that we provide.

We value diversity and encourage applications from all people. Our vision is to see happy inclusive communities work together in collaborative and inclusive ways to create opportunity and improve quality of life. Our workforce proudly reflects the local communities we connect with and support.

“Multicap acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we all work, live and play. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations Peoples. We reflect upon the millions of footprints that are embedded into the earth from our Ancestors, the pathways that were forged, the meaning they leave behind and the continuation of the traditions through the next generations.”

For any queries about this role contact [email protected].