Behaviour Support Practitioner

• Enjoy working school terms with paid term breaks!
• Ongoing, part-time position commencing Term 1 2025
• Competitive salary plus salary packaging benefits
• Supportive, inclusive and approachable team

The Role:

We are currently seeking an exceptional individual with a positive and proactive approach to join our dedicated Cheshire School team in this newly created position. 

Reporting to the Head of School, you will be part of a caring, dedicated and enthusiastic school team creating an environment that nurtures independence, resilience and a desire to learn.

Your primary goal will be to provide high quality services, integrating the developmental and therapeutic needs of children to help students gain the skills required to re-engage with learning and transition back into mainstream school with a key focus on building the capacity of children, families and the school community.

About you:

To be successful you will have experience working with children with complex behaviour needs, providing clinical and/or functional behaviour assessment, intervention and support ideally within a School setting.

Crucial to your success will be your ability to develop rapport and positive working relationships with students and families from a broad range of social and cultural backgrounds.  Your excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with a range of other professionals will enable you to achieve identified goals.

What we offer:

• Work within school terms and benefit from paid school term breaks
• Competitive annual salary with generous salary packaging of up to $15,900 each FBT year
• Flexible work options - create your ideal work-life balance
• Paid Parental Leave program for all on-going employees (after 12 months’ of service)
• Access to Employee Wellbeing Program

All bestchance staff are required to produce a WWCC, and in some circumstances other mandatory checks will be required, as well as providing a new National/International Criminal Background Check prior to employment.

About us:

bestchance Child Family Care is a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of building stronger communities, healthier families and happier childhoods.  We achieve this through our quality education, care and therapy services for children, our support programs for families, and our registered training organisation.

bestchance Child Family Care provides a supportive environment to grow, nurture and develop strong bonds with children and families.

For more information visit our website at https://www.bestchance.org.au/

Applications:

Applications for this position close on 3 January 2025.

If you have any questions regarding this position please contact the team at careers@bestchance.org.au

bestchance is a child safe and equal opportunity employer. We are committed to child safety and have zero tolerance of child abuse. Applicants should be aware that we carry out Working with Children, Police Records and reference checks to ensure that we are recruiting the right people.