Join our Adelaide team, a vibrant and collaborative group of more than 25 Allied Health professionals, our team brings together Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, and Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners united by one shared purpose: delivering high-quality, meaningful support to NDIS participants across South Australia.
We're not your average allied health team. We combine genuine clinical excellence with a positive workplace culture.
This role offers the opportunity to work with a diverse caseload across Adelaide, providing person-centred Positive Behaviour Support services while collaborating with a highly supportive multidisciplinary team.
Why Join Ability Action Australia?
Our leaders are genuinely invested in your success, wellbeing, and career progression. We understand that to deliver exceptional outcomes for participants, we first need to create an environment where our clinicians can thrive.
What You Can Expect
✔ Flexible hybrid working arrangements that support work-life balance
✔ A collaborative multidisciplinary team that values knowledge-sharing and professional growth
✔ Career development opportunities with clear pathways into senior and leadership positions
✔ Meaningful community-based work with varied and rewarding caseloads
✔ Regular supervision, mentoring and professional support
✔ A pet-friendly office environment
✔ A connected team culture with regular coffees, lunches, social events and celebrations that make the office somewhere you actually want to be.
Key Responsibilities
As a Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner, you will:
- Conduct functional behavioural assessments and develop person-centred behaviour support plans
- Deliver evidence-based Positive Behaviour Support services to NDIS participants and their support networks
- Develop, implement and review behaviour support plans within complex support environments
- Work collaboratively to reduce and eliminate restrictive practices in line with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission framework
- Set meaningful goals and develop practical strategies that build participant capacity and independence
- Support families, carers and support teams to confidently implement behaviour support strategies
- Collaborate closely with Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists and other stakeholders to achieve positive participant outcomes
- Mentor and support junior Behaviour Support Practitioners where appropriate
About You
We're looking for someone who is passionate about improving outcomes for people with disability and enjoys working as part of a collaborative team.
You will bring:
- Qualifications in an allied health discipline (desirable)
- Experience delivering Positive Behaviour Support services within the NDIS environment
- Strong report writing, assessment and documentation skills
- Excellent time management and organisational abilities
- The ability to manage a varied caseload while maintaining high-quality participant outcomes
- A proactive approach to learning, growth and continuous improvement
- A genuine commitment to person-centred practice and participant empowerment
I'm Charlotte, Talent Acquisition Advisor at Ability Action Australia, and I'd love to discuss how this role could be the next step in your Positive Behaviour Support career.
📞 0448 947 019
✉️ c.west@abilityactionaustralia.com.au
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.