Proficient Behaviour Support Practitioner
About Neurobloom
Neurobloom works at the intersection of disability, trauma, and systems harm. We understand neurodivergence, developmental trauma, and complex trauma, including experiences commonly described as C-PTSD, as integral to lived experience and shaped by environments, relationships, and power structures. Distress is not viewed as a behavioural deficit, but as a meaningful and embodied response to unmet needs, unsafety, and relational rupture.
Our work is grounded in the CAREA framework, which centres Care, Autonomy, Reciprocity, Equity, and Accountability as ethical and practical foundations. Neurobloom provides connected, trauma informed support to neurodivergent people across all ages and stages of life, and to families and relational systems navigating developmental trauma, complex trauma, disrupted attachment, and systemic harm.
We prioritise predictability, consent, dignity, and safety over compliance or behaviour suppression. Our approach is ecological and relational. We work alongside families, schools, workplaces, and communities to reduce harm at the systems level and to support sustainable change that does not rely on masking, control, or crisis driven intervention.
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Role Description
This is a full time role for a Proficient Behaviour Support Practitioner based in Wollongong, NSW.
The role is suited to a practitioner who understands behaviour as shaped by nervous system state, relational context, lived experience, and environmental conditions, and who approaches support as a shared, relational responsibility rather than an act of correction.
Practice at Neurobloom is trauma informed, rights based, and aligned with the CAREA framework. Responsibilities include collaborative and consent based assessment, development of behaviour support plans that prioritise autonomy, dignity, and least restrictive practice, and ongoing support to individuals, families, and other stakeholders to deepen understanding of neurodivergence, developmental trauma, and complex trauma.
The role involves contributing to capacity building across home, education, workplace, and community contexts, with a strong emphasis on ethical decision making, reflective practice, and systems accountability. Practitioners are expected to engage critically with power, risk, and restrictive practices, and to actively avoid approaches that reproduce harm through coercion or control.
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Who We Are Seeking
We are seeking a practitioner who brings depth, humility, and ethical clarity to their work. This role requires comfort with complexity, a willingness to examine power and risk, and a commitment to practices that uphold human rights and do not reproduce systemic harm.
Essential capabilities include experience in behaviour support assessment and planning, a strong grounding in trauma informed and attachment aware practice, the ability to build trusting and respectful relationships with neurodivergent people and their families, and confidence working collaboratively within multidisciplinary and community systems.
Applicants must be able to meet documentation and compliance requirements while maintaining a clear human rights orientation. Strong organisational skills, reflective capacity, and alignment with Neurobloom's values are essential.
A Bachelor's or Master's degree in psychology, social work, or a related field is required. Experience working alongside neurodivergent people and families navigating developmental and complex trauma across the lifespan is highly valued. Registration, certification, or endorsement as a behaviour support practitioner is desirable.
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Neurodivergent Affirmation
Neurobloom is a neurodivergent affirming organisation. We explicitly welcome and encourage applications from neurodivergent practitioners. We are committed to working conditions that respect difference, autonomy, and nervous system safety, while maintaining clear professional, ethical, and regulatory boundaries.
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Supervision at Neurobloom
Supervision at Neurobloom is grounded in the CAREA framework of Care, Autonomy, Reciprocity, Equity, and Accountability. It is a structured, ethical process that supports safe, reflective, and accountable practice, rather than a mechanism of surveillance, correction, or performance management.
Supervision prioritises practitioner wellbeing, reflective capacity, and clinical integrity. It provides a space to examine complexity, uncertainty, ethical tension, and systems level risk, with a clear focus on reducing harm and upholding the rights and dignity of the people we support.
Autonomy is respected through collaborative supervision agendas, recognition of professional scope, and support for independent clinical judgment. Reciprocity is reflected in supervision as a respectful, dialogical process where challenge and support coexist. Equity is actively considered in supervision through attention to power, workload, access needs, and the impact of systems on both practitioners and the people they support. Accountability is held clearly and consistently, with supervision supporting adherence to professional standards, regulatory requirements, and least restrictive practice.
Supervision at Neurobloom is not therapy. It does not replace external clinical supervision where required, nor does it blur professional boundaries. It is designed to sustain ethical practice over time, support reflective decision making, and ensure alignment with CAREA, human rights, and organisational responsibility.