Behaviour Support Practitioner

Company Description

Hanrahan Health offers multidisciplinary therapy services across the lifespan – toddlers through to aged care.  We work in a range of clinical settings including our beautiful clinic spaces, private hospital, residential aged care facilities, schools, homes and via telehealth.  We love our diverse client population and our mixed caseloads.

Our vision is to inspire, empower and support our team and our clients to reach their full potential.

We are passionate about creating opportunities and experiences for our team and our clients to make a difference in their lives.

Job Description

Hanrahan Health are excited to announce that we are expanding the range of supports we provide to our clients by adding positive behaviour support!

We are looking for an experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners of all experience and suitability levels in Bowral. Whether you are just starting your Behaviour Support career or have suitability levels Core, Proficient or Advanced, we want to hear from you! 

On a daily basis you will be:

• Assisting NDIS participants, along with their families and/or carers, to identify their needs through assessment and person-centred planning
• Evaluating, developing and delivering evidence-based support plans within a complex support space
• Developing meaningful goals and practical strategies utilising a positive behaviour support framework, and with a commitment to eliminate restrictive practices, in the home and community
• Ensuring individual plans reflect our NDIS participants' goals, passions and strengths
• Building the knowledge, capacity and strengths of those who support participants in their lives - family, carers, friends, etc
• Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including mentoring less experienced Behaviour Support Practitioners.

Qualifications

About you

• Proven experience supporting people with disabilities within the NDIS, including complex and challenging behaviours

• Qualifications as a Behaviour Support Practitioner or relevant disability sector experience, supported by a Degree or Diploma

• Strong report writing, time management, and organisational skills

• A proactive, solution-focused mindset with excellent people skills and a passion for supporting individuals with complex needs

• Hold a valid drivers licence and access to a reliable motor vehicle

Benefits for you

• PD opportunities (in-house) - regular and ongoing professional development sessions + in-house leadership development programs
• Supervision – paired with a dedicated supervisor for 1 hour of weekly 1:1 supervision
• Career progression – opportunities to ‘step up’ into supervisory and leadership roles
• Salary - above award rate of pay
• Flexibility – full-time or part-time position, varied work hours to suit different lifestyles, and flexible work environments
• Lifestyle and our beautiful surroundings – rural setting within easy access to Sydney, beaches, wineries, galleries, waterfalls, bush walking trails, country markets, camping… what more could you want!
• Vibrant team – passion for inspiring, empowering and supporting both participants and each other
• Diverse clinical caseloads – develop and expand upon your skills across all age groups in a range of settings
• Volunteering – giving back to local communities (i.e. ‘Clinic for Good’)
• Other perks as an employee of a company which belongs to the MedHealth group, discounts on private health insurance and travel, access to a FREE Employee Assistance Program (EAP), a 'Fitness Passport' program, salary packaging (including novated leasing) and much more!

To learn more! Click on the Apply button OR call me - Vanessa Dias- on 0448 374 024

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Additional Information

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 4,000 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.