A leadership role is only as good as the leader you get to work with.
We’re looking for a Proficient (or above) NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner ready to step into a genuine leadership role across South East Queensland.
And by leadership, we actually mean leadership.
Around 70–80% of your role will be focused on leading, mentoring and developing practitioners, with a reduced caseload so you can stay clinically connected without trying to squeeze leadership in around a full billable workload.
You’ll report directly to our Queensland State Manager, Kylie Riseley, a highly respected and well-known leader within the Queensland & Tasmanian disability sector. Kylie and the Queensland team have received a number of nominations and awards for excellence in Allied Health and Disability Support over the past 12 months — recognition that reflects the strength of the team and the work happening on the ground.
Kylie is also working alongside our Psychology team to develop Transform Life’s Complex Care service, supporting people with more complex presentations including significant mental health needs, forensic and justice-system involvement, high-risk behaviours and situations where existing supports may be at risk of breaking down. It’s an emerging area of the business and another opportunity for experienced practitioners to contribute to how we work with some of the more complex people we support.
This isn’t a role where you’ll be brought in to fix a dysfunctional team.
You’ll be joining a strong, established and high-performing Queensland team and working alongside Kylie to keep raising the bar.
Ideally, you’ll be based in Brisbane, Northern Gold Coast, Logan or Ipswich region although we’re flexible on this.
What you’ll actually be doing
Leadership & team development | approx. 70–80%
You’ll help lead a geographically spread team of Behaviour Support Practitioners who work remotely and in their local communities.
That means:
- Providing regular clinical supervision, mentoring and coaching
- Keeping a remote team connected, engaged and operating as one team
- Supporting practitioners through complex cases and clinical decision-making
- Reviewing Behaviour Support Plans and giving useful, practical feedback
- Supporting onboarding and the development of newer team members
- Identifying capability gaps and helping practitioners build confidence and competence
- Having the constructive conversations that good leadership sometimes requires
- Working closely with Kylie to maintain — and continue lifting — an already strong standard of practice
You won’t be expected to have all the answers yourself. You’ll be part of a broader national Behaviour Support leadership team, with experienced people around you to bounce things off when the complicated cases inevitably arrive.
Clinical practice | approx. 20–30%
You’ll maintain a reduced caseload so you remain connected to the realities of frontline practice.
You’ll continue to:
- Deliver high-quality, evidence-based behaviour support
- Work directly with participants, families and support teams
- Maintain the clinical credibility that matters when you’re leading other practitioners
The kind of leader we’re looking for
Qualifications and capability matter. So does how people experience working with you.
You’ll probably do well here if you:
- Take initiative and follow things through
- Are comfortable giving clear, constructive feedback
- Can have challenging conversations without making them unnecessarily difficult
- Stay calm when cases become complex and help others do the same
- Give people autonomy without disappearing when they need support
- Care about developing good clinicians rather than simply managing their KPIs
- Understand the place and importance of process and documentation both in participant support but also people management
- Enjoy being part of a team while still being comfortable working independently from home
- Enjoy travel to support your team or attend events from time to time
What you’ll need
- Proficient, Advanced or Specialist registration as an NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner
- Demonstrated experience mentoring, supervising or leading others
- Strong capability in Behaviour Support assessment, planning and implementation
- Experience across disability, mental health, education, corrections or another relevant setting
- Relevant tertiary qualifications; AASW membership is highly regarded but not essential
You don’t need to be looking for a new role to have a conversation.
If you’re an experienced Behaviour Support Practitioner who has been thinking about leadership — or you’re already leading people and want to do it somewhere that genuinely gives you the time to lead — we’d be interested in talking.
Express your interest today, or for a confidential conversation contact Sally on 0405 738 220.