Code Black Psychology is a well-established provider of clinical and forensic psychological services to offenders and victim-survivors of interpersonal violence. Our team provide comprehensive risk and diagnostic assessments and cross-sector case planning. We also provide a range of coordination services to clients with multiple and complex needs with involvement in the health, justice and disability sectors.

Code Black provide behaviour support services for complex cases where the participant has multiple behaviours of concerns, complex needs, and often severe functional impairments. Our behaviour support team is creating a service that utilises behavioural science to create positive behavioural change in situations where participants are typically subject to various legal orders, such as compulsory treatment orders, that would benefit from a deliberate focus on the will and preference of the participant as the change mechanism.

About Code Black Psychology

Code Black Psychology takes an interdisciplinary approach to specialist assessments and care team support services in highly complex cases of interpersonal violence. Our team are qualified in psychology, social work, and law. We specialise in cases of complex psychosocial disabilities and persistent risk of harm to self and others.

About the Role

We are seeking behaviour support practitioners who are endorsed within the NDIS PBS Capability Framework. Practitioners will be undertaking behavioural assessments and functional behavioural analyses for complex clients where there are multiple behaviours of concern, psychosocial disability arising from severe mental illness, extreme functional impairment, and very high support needs.

Main Duties

• Undertake behavioural assessments and functional behavioural analyses
• Develop behaviour support plans that are evidence-based and person-centred where the will and preference of the participant defines the aims of behavioural change
• Provide training and reflective practice to care teams/outreach support services of complex clients after a behaviour support plan is developed

Skills and experience

• Endorsed as a behaviour support practitioner within the NDIS Capability Framework
• Experience within the criminal justice sector and in forensic behavioural science will be highly regarded
• Registration with a relevant regulatory or professional agency, such as AHPRA or AASW, are strongly encouraged to apply, although, those with outstanding experience in a relevant field will also be preferred candidate
• Experience and demonstrable strength in report writing is an inherent requirement of all positions at Code Black Psychology

SUPPORT FOR YOU

You will be part of a psychologically safe team that support each other in complex, high demand work. Code Black is an equal opportunity employer, we encourage flexibility for our team members balancing life’s demands, with time and support to undertake ongoing professional development through an engaging career. We encourage a balance of working from home with being at our office in the Malvern area, including facilitating flexible hours.

We will be provided a generous salary, flexible working arrangements, professional development support and ongoing supervision.

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CODE BLACK

Visit our website at https://www.codeblackpsychology.au/

For general enquiries, please contact in the first instance Ruby Basocak via email [email protected] using the subject line: Behaviour Support Practitioners x2 enquiry via EthicalJobs.