• Permanent Full Time

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 7,000 employees working in more than 440 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical knowledge, expertise and support to clients within aged care and disability programs including children and young people with disabilities
• Complete assessment of behaviours
• Develop, deliver and monitor interventions and strategies around behaviours including training of staff and families, skill development programs and therapies
• Provide behaviour support services that are timely and effective ensuring they meet the goals identified by the client and their families/carers in line with their NDIA plans or Care Plans

Skills & Experience  

• Tertiary qualification in allied health professions such as Psychology, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Social Work or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience in the delivery of behaviour support services to people with disability
• Demonstrated understanding and experience working in positive behaviour support approaches including the use of authorised restrictive practices
• Demonstrated understanding and experience working in a billable hours environment such as the NDIS

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)