Professional Behaviour Therapist

We are committed to living our values of teamwork, respect, dignity, justice, advocacy, and quality. With over 70 years of experience in providing services and support for people with disabilities and their families, our work positively impacts the lives of thousands of individuals.

• To maximize the quality of life outcomes of people who present with challenging behaviours via evidence-based behaviour analytic casework.
• To help staff adopt evidence-based support approaches and effectively support service users with challenging behaviours.
• To increase the capacity of our services to effectively support people with behaviour support needs via a range of ongoing service development activities.
• To help our organisation adopt an evidence-based practice framework in the support of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

• Functional Assessment: To take a lead role in identifying function-based interventions and supports for people who present with challenging behaviours via comprehensive functional behavioural assessments in line with best practice.
• Implementation Support: To take a lead role in the design of function-based interventions which are evidence-based and have good contextual fit with the target environment(s). To support the implementation of these interventions via evidence-based training and organisational behaviour management strategies.
• Collaborative Working & Stakeholder Involvement: To work collaboratively with service users, service staff and multi-agency inter-disciplinary teams throughout the behaviour support process.

• A Master's degree in Applied Behaviour Analysis or equivalent is required.
• Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) certification is desirable.
• At least three years' experience working in behaviour support roles, carrying out functional assessments and supporting social care or educational staff teams to implement behaviour-analytic interventions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, cognitive disabilities, and / or dual mental health diagnoses is essential.

We offer a range of benefits including a company pension scheme, paid maternity/paternity/adoption leave, educational leave and 27 days annual leave.