Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner (Nurses)

If you have experience as a nurse supporting children, young people, or adults with disability or complex support needs, much of Positive Behaviour Support will already feel familiar. You understand that behind behaviour there is often a reason, whether it is pain, anxiety, frustration, trauma, or an unmet need. Your experience in building relationships, understanding risk, and providing compassionate care provides a strong foundation for PBS work.

Nursing can be deeply meaningful, but it can also be demanding. Shift work, high-pressure environments, competing priorities and the emotional load of caring for others can leave many experienced nurses wondering what else they could do with their skills.

As a Nurse, you look beyond symptoms to understand people. Positive Behaviour Support takes that same skill and applies it in a new way. The difference is what comes next: in nursing you often have minutes, and in PBS you have time to find out why and follow it through.

PBS starts from something you already know: behaviour is communication. When someone does not have the words, skills or tools to say what they need, the need shows up another way. PBS is the work of understanding why, changing what is around the person rather than the person, and teaching the skills that meet that need another way.

It is a discipline, not a knack: backed by international research and practised in group homes, schools, workplaces, family homes and the community.

Register for one of our information sessions to find out how your nursing experience could translate.

Come along to learn:

• What a PBS Practitioner actually does day-to-day
• How your experience would transfer to the role
• What makes Melior’s people-first culture special
• The comprehensive induction, training, and supervision we provide

You’ll also hear from our Co-Managing Directors, our current PBS Practitioners and People & Culture team, with time for questions over refreshments. If you’d like to, you can also have an informal chat with us about future opportunities.

www.melior.org.au/pbs-careers-information-sessions

Already know about PBS and are ready to make a change?  We welcome your application via SEEK if you:

• Have enthusiasm for working with people with disability or with complex behavioural needs
• Hold a relevant tertiary qualification, such as nursing, speech pathology, occupational therapy, education, counselling, psychology or social work.
• Are curious, creative and put people-first; and like finding practical ways to support positive change.

Bring your unique self. Melior is an advocate for diversity and inclusion.

We understand that everyone has a preferred way of applying. If you require accommodations, alternative application formats, or adjustments, please reach out to our People and Culture team at [email protected]

Your request will be kept confidential, and your preferred method of applying will not impact our consideration of your application.