As a Behaviour Support Practitioner / Social Worker, your role would require you to assess the needs of our clients to develop and deliver clinic and community-based interventions for a wide range of client groups.

Core Competencies of the Role:

· Develop and implement individually designed customer related support plans within specified timeframes

· Plan, deliver and evaluate behaviour supports relating to the individual’s needs in line with relevant legislative and ethical requirements

· Have the ability to remain calm throughout challenging behaviour.

· Sensitive to challenges faced by families.

· Open to feedback and committed to continuous improvement.

· Have a strong work ethic underpinned by punctuality, excellent organisational skills and professionalism.

· Work independently where required.

Roles & Responsibilities:

· Provide Behaviour Support intervention to eligible clients including National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants and privately funded clients.

· Complete comprehensive functional behavioural assessments of the client’s behaviour support needs.

· Conduct person-centred behavioural assessments and interviews within a comprehensive bio-psycho-social formulation of the participant’s clinical and other support needs.

· Actively engage input from the participant, their family, carers, guardian or other relevant persons.

· Liaise and cooperate with relevant community and government groups to implement and review services;

· Identify all behaviours of concern in observable and measurable terms- frequency, duration, and intensity- so that progress can be measured. Maintain detailed case reports, notes and progress.

· Identify and develop a timely interim behaviour support plan that provides short-term strategies while a comprehensive assessment of the participant’s needs is being undertaken and a behaviour support plan developed.

· Establish behavioural goals and objectives with a clear connection to how the goal achieves similar functional outcomes to the behaviours of concern under similar conditions.

· Develop a multicomponent behaviour support plan, based on the assessments, that contains evidence-based, person-centred and proactive strategies (to support behaviour change) and non-aversive reactive strategies (to manage behaviour) that will reduce behaviours of concern, improve quality of life and eliminate the need for restrictive practices.

· Design function-based antecedent strategies.

· Design consequence-based strategies that promote desired behaviours and reduce behaviours of concern.

· When developing a behaviour support plan, take into consideration diversity, including diversity of race, ethnicity, disability, age, sexuality, gender identity, intersex status and relationship status.

· Interact with other health professionals, NDIA- related entities, family members, educational staff, and community members, when providing individualised support plans

· Provide accurate, timely and high-quality reports

· Keeping detailed records relating to patient conditions, care plans, therapies, and progress.

· Reporting progress and current status to appropriate parties, which may include family members, teachers, or medical professionals.

· Engaging in in-services and professional development

Qualifications Requirements:

Registered under NDIS

A Bachelor Degree in Social Work or related field;

At least one year full-time (or equivalent) relevant work experience.

Demonstrated experience working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team

· Proficiency with computers, especially patient and healthcare databases.

· Attentive and caring with the ability to develop individualised therapy plans