Careers

This role involves supporting NDIS participants with behaviours of concern, to improve their well-being and quality of life, and reduce their risk of harm to self and others (in the least restrictive way), through the development, review and maintenance of tailored, person-centred behaviour support plans.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with the participant and stakeholders, and utilise a range of clinical tools, to collect and integrate behavioural data and develop a comprehensive profile of a participant’s behaviour, their developmental history, relationships, care environment, and their underlying emotional, sensory, cognitive/neurodevelopmental and attachment needs.
• Develop clear evidence-based trauma-informed positive behaviour support strategies that:
  • mitigate the risk of harm to the participant and others in the least intrusive way;
  • support the provision of optimal therapeutic care from professionals/care-givers;
  • responds to the underlying needs of the participant and supports them to build critical relational and self-regulation skills.
  • ensure that the participant’s quality of life and well-being is central to the plan and prioritised over reducing behaviours of concern.
• Provide implementation training to the participant and their supports that is tailored to the audiences’ learning style and capacity, provides a deeper understanding of the participants underlying needs (depersonalises behaviours) and clear practical strategies for responding to their behaviours across different care environments and states of escalation.
• Monitor and review the participant’s behaviours/needs and the capacity of their care team, and evaluate the ongoing effectiveness of the plan, with the goal of
• continuously improving the participant’s capacity and quality of life, while phasing out any restrictive practices.
• Participate in monthly supervision with a senior practitioner or Director.

This role involves providing in-home counselling and therapeutic placement support to children, adults and families with complex support needs, including complex trauma and attachment issues, mental health and neurodevelopmental issues/cognitive disabilities. In addition to providing counselling to clients and their care-givers, this specialist role will involve providing specialist training/psychoeducation to parents, teachers and support workers.

Standard Therapeutic Interventions

Therapeutic Sessions with Clients

• Provide therapy to client’s in their home or in the community, with a strong relational and person-centred focus
• Sessions incorporate attachment focused practices, talk-based counselling, expressive therapies and psycho-education around the impact of trauma/disrupted attachment, disabilities and grief/loss on functioning
• Engage clients in activities that enhance their self-esteem, social functioning, capacity to self-regulate, problem-solving skills and assists with the development of support networks
• Support for Care-givers, Teachers and Support Workers
• Provide training to the client’s supports, to help them better understand and respond to the client’s behaviours in the context of their developmental history and current needs
• Model the use of evidence-based strategies to work with specific complex behaviours

Support for Stakeholders

• Coordinate and collaborate therapeutic interventions between with other professionals involved with the client/family;
• Link closely with key stakeholders to ensure avconsistent and shared approach to supporting the client;
• Provide ongoing verbal and written feedback to funding bodies and an overview report upon completion of the intervention

Additional Consultancy and Facilitation

• Family Group Meetings and Case-clinics.
• Specialist Behaviour Support under the NDIS and developing Positive Behaviour Support Plans
• Completing mental health, cognitive and parenting capacity assessments
• Delivering training to carers and professionals in trauma/attachment, therapeutic care and responding to complex behaviours and needs.