Description
Salary Packaging: Up to $15,900 salary packaging per financial year
Benefits: Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
Extra Leave: 4 weeks annual leave + additional 5 days leave
Career growth: Genuine career opportunities
Work life balance: Flexible work arrangements
Salary: Competitive remuneration
About us...
Royal Rehab LifeWorks is part of the Royal Rehab Group, Australia's leading provider of disability and rehabilitation services.
Representing a broad range of professions, our people are united by our values of honesty, respect, working together and innovative thinking. We are inspired by a commitment to clinical excellence and personalised care.
Royal Rehab LifeWorks provides rehabilitation and disability support services to people experiencing illness, injury, or disability to improve their overall wellbeing through individually tailored programs and world-leading technology. Our approach is informed by world-leading best practice and ultimately guided by the customer– their needs, their goals, their aspirations.
A career with Royal Rehab LifeWorks is an opportunity to collaborate, grow and make a difference with an iconic organisation recognised as a leader in rehabilitation and disability support.
About the role...
An exciting role exists for a highly motivated Behaviour Support Practitioner within our brand-new Royal Rehab LifeWorks service in Townsville. This role involves being a key member of our multidisciplinary team and facilitating high quality, efficient and person-centered services to our customers.
In this role you will work with a range of stakeholders to ensure customers from diverse backgrounds, with complex support requirements are provided with the support and skills they need to participate in their community. Outcomes are achieved by working with NDIS participants and their communities to ensure customers receive tailored services that are individualised, and outcomes focused.
Key responsibilities include:
Collaborating with a range of stakeholders within a positive behaviour support framework
Ensuring customers receive tailored services that are individualised, person centred & strength based in line with the values and principles of positive behaviour support.
Apply a customer centric model to develop, implement and review Individual Behaviour Support, plans and behaviour management strategies with customers, family, carers, and their service providers.
Conduct relevant therapeutic, functional assessment and data gathering with customers developing the resulting behaviour support plans.
Coach those implementing a behaviour support plan, involve the customer, carers and other relevant people in assessment and intervention.
Develops & implements new resources & activities to enhance the experience & outcomes of our customers.
Record accurate and timely notes & billing relating to activities & outcomes for customers.
Meet customer acquisition and clinical activity targets.
About you..
We seek a self-motivated, passionate, and energetic professional with the ability to engage with our customers. You will be confident in your abilities to deliver supports to a complex customer base whilst focusing on achieving quality outcomes for our customers.
Essential Criteria:
Tertiary Allied Health Qualification - Social Work, OT, Psychology, Speech Therapy
Current peak body registration- AHPRA, AASW
NDIS Practitioner Status – Core or Proficient
Current understanding of NDIS positive behaviour support capability framework and ability to apply for core practitioner status.
Experience working with people with a disability who may have a range of complex and challenging behaviours
Demonstrated knowledge in the development and implementation of behavioural intervention strategies, risk management strategies and skills development plans
Strong written & verbal communication skills including the ability to develop interim and comprehensive behaviour support plans.
Working with children check (or willing to obtain)
Criminal history checks (3mths since applying)
Current driver’s license
NDIS Worker Screen (or willing to obtain one is essential)
What we offer...
Salary Packaging: Up to $15,900 salary packaging per financial year
Benefits: Fitness Passport & HCF Private Health Insurance discounts
Career growth: Genuine career opportunities
Work life balance: Flexible work arrangements
Salary: Competitive remuneration
Supervision: Internal & external supervision
Targets: Below market KPI’s
Leadership: Supportive and experienced leadership team
Culture: Friendly and close-knit team environment
We are proud of our diverse and skilled team of passionate healthcare and support professionals committed to delivering the very best for the people we serve. A career at Royal Rehab is the opportunity to make a difference with a progressive and innovative organisation, built on a rich history of community care since 1899.
What’s next…
Address the essential criteria in your cover letter and APPLY NOW.
Please note, only applicants that address this criterion will be considered.
Visit our Royal Rehab careers page for the position description - www.royalrehab.com.au/about-us/careers.
The successful applicant may be required to undergo pre-employment checks including but not limited to a current criminal record check working with children check, employment history and referee checks.
*All final applicants for this position will be requested to provide evidence of their COVID-19 vaccination immunisation record or medical exemption certificate as part of the recruitment process* We do not provide sponsorship and no agencies please.
We know diversity makes Royal Rehab a great place to work and we are committed to building an inclusive workplace culture that reflects the people we serve. We encourage applications from diverse community groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, people with a disability and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
