Permanent Position | 0.8–1.0 FTE (30.5–38 hours per week)
Are you passionate about Positive Behaviour Support and making a meaningful difference in the lives of children and young people with disabilities and their families?
Interchange Outer East (IOE) is seeking a Behaviour Support Practitioner to join our Allied Health and Behaviour Support team. This is a permanent position with flexibility to work either 0.8 FTE (30.5 hours per week) or 1.0 FTE (38 hours per week), depending on the successful applicant.
Based at our Ferntree Gully office, you'll work alongside a supportive multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, person-centred behaviour support that promotes human rights, inclusion and positive outcomes.
Why join IOE?
At IOE, we're passionate about people, creating opportunities and having fun.
We develop and deliver services to children and young people with disabilities and their families to:
As a Child Safe Organisation, we are committed to providing a safe, inclusive and respectful environment where children, young people and vulnerable people are protected from harm.
As a Behaviour Support Practitioner, you will:
This role is based in Ferntree Gully and may require occasional work outside standard business hours to meet participant, family and organisational needs.
You'll bring:
Interchange Outer East values diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
A Position Description is available through the link below or via our website.
https://www.ioe.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Standard-BS-Practitioner-Position-Description.pdf
Applications close on Friday 21st August, 2026. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may be conducted prior to the closing date, so early applications are encouraged.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
