The PO6 Principal Clinician has a lead role in providing effective, contemporary and evidence-based clinical advice about positive behaviour support and restrictive practices, to help adults with a cognitive or intellectual disability improve their lives and participate more actively in their communities.

Job details

As a Principal Clinician (PO6) you will:

• Undertake the delegations, statutory responsibilities and functions as set out under the Disability Services Act 2006.
• Improve the quality of behaviour support planning across the sector with the aim of reducing and eliminating the use of restrictive practices through general and targeted training and education sessions and the provision of relevant resources and materials.
• Maintain an active clinical case load of individuals with high and complex behaviour support needs where restrictive practices are used.
• Develop Positive Behaviour Support Plans (PBSP) for adults with intellectual or cognitive impairment, including those subject to containment and seclusion.
• Prioritise the team's clinical workload and coordinate, monitor and review multidisciplinary functional assessments.
• Monitor and report on client progress and efficacy of Positive Behaviour Support practice through the implementation of data collection and reporting strategies.
• Provide professional supervision for a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, including facilitating their professional development, and provide clinical advice about positive behaviour support and reducing and eliminating restrictive practices
• Improve sector understanding of, and compliance with the requirements of the Disability Services Act 2006, the Guardianship and Administration Act 2000 and the NDIS Act 2013, and associated Rules by monitoring, reporting, identifying instances of non-compliance and implementing appropriate strategies with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and service providers to achieve compliance.
• Maintain information securely in electronic and hard copy form and ensure the privacy of confidential and sensitive information.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Further information

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Documents

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• 664254 25 - Role Description (Word, 227KB)
  
  
  664254 25 - Candidate Info Pack (Word, 157KB)