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Senior Psychologist - Individual Therapy and Positive Behaviour Support

Rubix Support
  • Work Type: Full Time (Part time of 4 days a week considered)
  • Classification: Health Professionals and Support Services Award (2010)
  • Location: Greensborough and Ivanhoe East
  • Wage range: $100,000 - $115,000 plus superannuation

Rubix Support

With significant experience in the disability sector within government and community organisations, Rubix Support is passionate about supporting people with cognitive impairments lead the life they want to live and to achieve their goals and aspirations. Rubix Support provide support to people aged between two years to sixty five years old. We are a registered provider under the NDIS and provide services across three main areas - positive behaviour support, support coordination and lifestyle support. We are focused on evidenced based best practise and are passionate about achieving positive outcomes for the people we support.

WHY WORK WITH US?

  • When you join our team you become one of us! We are committed to your personal growth and provide you with significant, on-going support including training opportunities. Rubix Support do not hire people in subcontracting arrangements, just like the good old days, you will have job security! This means that you will never be asked to provide your own ABN number/insurance etc. You are covered by, and paid above industry award classifications and receive all standard entitlements such as recreational and sick leave, travel allowance, and that all important 17.5% leave loading as you would expect.
  • You will be part of a team that has significant experience supporting people with cognitive impairments. We are a team that strives on positive team culture, are always happy to support each other and who enjoy a good laugh.
  • You are provided with all the necessary tools to complete your rewarding role including an Apple MacBook Pro and iPhone which provides you with the ability to work flexibly

Accountabilities

  • Develop, implement and lead the development of Rubix Support’s individual therapy service, providing therapy for people who have a cognitive impairment.
  • Oversee a passionate and energetic team of psychologists, providing individual therapy and positive behaviour support.
  • Provide individual and group supervision (all psychologists at Rubix Support receive both).
  • Develop and implement clinic schedules and oversee all intake referrals into the therapy service.
  • Conduct individual therapy within the clinic setting as well as complete comprehensive functional behaviour assessments that are centred on a person’s goals and aspirations.
  • Conduct observations, collect data and work directly with an individual to understand why they are displaying behaviour that others find challenging.
  • Develop visual aides that are reflective of the support needs of the individual and the targeted audience
  • Use your knowledge and skills to ensure that the persons goals are being achieved through advocacy and support
  • Work closely with a person’s family and support network
  • Provide training to staff and families around positive behaviour support and assist in the implementation of this practice
  • Maintain documented evidence that demonstrates your process and support your recommendations
  • Communicate professionally and be responsive when working with external providers within complex care teams
  • Able to work independently in remote settings but maintain contact
  • Have strong administration skills and record keeping, ensuring adherence to privacy and confidentially legislation
  • Write reports that address the referral purpose in user-friendly formats
  • Be able to work independently in remote settings but maintain effective communication with management

Key Selection Criteria & Personal Qualities

  • You will be a registered psychologist with a minimum of four years’ experience in therapy practice and experience in supporting people with a cognitive impairment who may display behaviours that challenge others.
  • Experience providing supervision to junior practitioners who maybe provisional psychologists.
  • Demonstrated knowledge, experience and understanding of the support needs of people with disability across home and community settings.
  • Well developed communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to work and communicate effectively with participants, their families, community agencies and other professionals.
  • Focused on supporting individuals to increase their quality of life through self-determined and person-centred thinking
  • Able to adapt and be flexible to changing Participant needs, while prioritising tasks in an efficient manner to the team that you lead.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Positive Behaviour Support frameworks
  • Experience and practical knowledge in evidence-based practices
  • Ability to utilise personal skills and experiences to support and manage difficult situations
  • Commitment to social justice and inclusion and valuing difference and diversity
  • High standard of personal integrity and commitment to the organisational values
  • Able to work independently and make calculated decisions based on training and knowledge and being accountable
  • Value and enjoy teamwork and ability to collaborate with others to achieve common goals
  • Ability to facilitate and adapt preferred style to influence others to achieve planned participant outcomes

Work Health and Safety

  • Undertake all your work with consideration to personal health and safety requirements and that of others.
  • Report all hazards and/or injuries promptly on appropriate form.
  • Carry out all duties with diligence and due care for personal safety and the safety of others.

Safety Screening

  • A current police check (less than six months).
  • Applicants who have lived overseas for 12 months or longer during the past 10 years are required to provide the results of an international police check. Applicants should contact the relevant overseas police force to obtain this and submit as part of their application. Details of overseas police agencies are available on the Department of Immigration website www.immi.gov.au and can be searched for under the phrase, ‘penal clearance certificate.’
  • A current Employee Working with Children’s Check (WWCC) card is required and will need to be provided prior to commencement of employment. Currency will need to be maintained by the employee for the period of employment.
  • Safety screening will include checking whether your name is on the Disability Worker Exclusion Scheme list (DWES) maintained by the Disability Worker Exclusion Scheme Unit (DWESU). The DWES includes names of persons unsuitable for employment as a disability support worker. A DWES form will be provided to applicants to complete at the time of their interview.
  • Two professional references will be required

Qualification & Training Requirement

  • Registered Psychologist with the Psychologist Board of Australia with a minimum of four years’ experience supporting people with a disability who may display behaviours that challenge others
  • Successful completion of the NDIA’s Worker Orientation Module ‘Quality, Safety and You’ (https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/workers/training-course). Applicants will need to provide this NDIA generated Certificate prior to commencement.
  • A driver’s license is required as you will be required to drive to participants and their family’s homes and locations.

Employment Conditions

  • Successful applicants will be employed on a Full Time (Part Time considered) basis
  • Rubix Support employs Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners under the Health Professionals and Support Services Award (2010).
  • Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner report to the Director, Positive Behaviour Support
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Opportunity for progression

A position description is attached.

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