Allied Health Practitioners & External Contractors | NDIS

About the role

Banksia Care is a registered NDIS provider seeking expressions of interest from experienced Allied Health Practitioners, Behaviour Support Practitioners and external clinical professionals interested in working with or alongside Banksia Care. The nature of the engagement will depend on your discipline, professional registration, experience, availability and preferred working arrangement. Opportunities include providing services directly through Banksia Care as an independent contractor, working within a multidisciplinary allied health model, accepting referrals as an external practitioner, developing ongoing professional referral relationships, and providing in-person, hybrid or telehealth services where clinically appropriate.

Key responsibilities

Responsibilities vary by discipline and may include:

• Speech Pathology: speech, language and communication; AAC assessment and implementation; high-tech AAC devices; PECS and low-tech communication systems; key word sign and other supported communication approaches; social communication; early communication development; gestalt language processing; echolalia-informed practice; feeding and swallowing within professional scope; parent, carer and support-worker education; functional communication assessment; NDIS reports and progress documentation

• Occupational Therapy: functional capacity assessments; sensory processing and regulation; daily living skills; fine and gross motor development; assistive technology; home modifications; school participation; community participation; work and employment participation; executive functioning; capacity building; equipment assessment and recommendations; NDIS reports and reassessments

• Behaviour Support: functional behaviour assessments; positive behaviour support plans; interim and comprehensive behaviour support plans; participant and family consultation; environmental and sensory assessment; staff and carer training; behaviour data review; regulated restrictive practice oversight; restrictive practice reduction and elimination planning; NDIS reporting and documentation; multidisciplinary case collaboration

• Allied Health Assistants: supporting implementation of therapy programs; practising functional communication strategies; AAC implementation; daily living and capacity-building activities; supporting therapy goals within everyday environments; preparing therapy resources; recording observations and progress; liaising with supervising clinicians; supporting participants across home, community and other appropriate settings

About you

• Appropriately qualified and registered for your profession

• Practise within your professional scope

• Deliver person-centred and evidence-informed services

• Value neuro-affirming and strengths-based practice

• Understand disability beyond a diagnostic label

• Respect AAC and alternative forms of communication

• Comfortable collaborating across disciplines

• Communicate clearly with participants, families and other professionals

• Produce high-quality clinical documentation and reports

• Understand NDIS-funded allied health services and functional reporting

• Maintain clear professional and ethical boundaries

• Reliable and responsive

• Value transparency when a service is not the right fit

• Experience supporting complex, intersecting or neurodivergent presentations particularly welcomed

• Relevant recognised tertiary qualification

• Current professional registration or accreditation where applicable

• AHPRA registration where required by the profession

• Relevant professional association membership where applicable

• NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner suitability where required

• Current NDIS Worker Screening Check

• NSW Working With Children Check for work involving children and young people

• National Police Check where required

• Current professional indemnity insurance

• Current public liability insurance for independent contractors

• Current ABN for contractor arrangements

• Appropriate working rights in Australia

• Compliance with applicable NDIS Practice Standards, professional standards and Codes of Conduct

About us

Banksia Care is an NDIS registered provider based in Macarthur and supporting participants across Campbelltown, Camden, Liverpool, surrounding suburbs and wider Sydney, with selected remote and interstate services available. Broader services include Allied Health, Behaviour Support, Support Coordination, NDIS & Centrelink Navigation, Supported Independent Living, In-Home Support, Community Access & Participation, Respite and Short Term Accommodation, Youth & Teen Support, School Holiday Programs, Career Launch and SLES, Transport, Meals and Nutrition, and Aged Care and Support at Home. Practice is grounded in dignity, honesty, safety, inclusion and growth. Banksia Care is an equal opportunity organisation welcoming professionals from diverse cultural backgrounds, identities, neurotypes and lived experiences.

https://banskiacare.com.au/work-with-us