Positive Behaviour Support

NDIS participants with Improved Relationships or Behaviour Support funding can access our Positive Behaviour Supports.

The journey to enjoying more everyday life activities begins with creating a personalised Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) plan. We’ll collaborate with you and your trusted support team to ensure we’re all working towards a unified purpose, focusing on building capacity. It becomes a central resource filled with proactive strategies and instructions to keep everyone safe.

An Interim Behaviour Support Plan will be developed (within 30 days of your assessment if unauthorised restrictive practices are used or if there’s risk of a restrictive practice being used) to share, review, and regularly update with your support team. The interim plan is a clear action plan on what preventative, or environmental strategies are needed, and also ensures that every support is providing a consistency and predictability for you.

This is followed by the development of a Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan within six months of seeing you. This plan has the benefit of time, further assessments, and trialed strategies to determine what the behaviours mean and what you’re trying to communicate.

On occasions where a restrictive practice is in place, the plan will be sent to the relevant states and territories’ Office of the Senior Practitioner for authorisation and the NDIS commission for monitoring the use of the restrictive practice.

We’ll help everyone involved understand the plan and how to use it in everyday life.

These are behaviours that are unexpected and may lead to others around you feeling frustrated, distressed or fearful. This can look like the person damaging things, behaving in ways that others view as socially inappropriate, and hurting themselves or others.

All behaviours happen for a reason, and by working directly with you, your,  family and your supports, we can find ways to assist and reduce behaviours of concern. By using ethical approaches that focus on human rights, community inclusion and equal opportunities, we aim to eliminate the need for restrictive practices wherever possible.

Restrictive practices are any interventions or practices that restrict the rights or freedom of movement of a person. They’re used in response to a behaviour of concern and should always be considered as a last resort. Sadly, they are being used to manage the behaviour of people with disabilities, and can be extremely distressing. Our highly trained team of behaviour support practitioners are committed to reducing and eliminating the use of restrictive practices, so that people’s dignity and independence is regained, and quality of life is improved.

Under the NDIS, certain restrictive practices are regulated, which means they must be authorised by the State or Territory in which the person lives and monitored/ reported to the NDIS Commission of Quality and Safeguards. Restrictive practices include chemical, physical, environmental, and mechanical restraints, and seclusion.

Our behaviour support practitioners are specially trained occupational therapists, mental health nurses, social workers and developmental educators who are passionate about supporting children and adults who use challenging behaviours.

They have been carefully selected to have the skills and attributes that will deliver exceptional therapy support and who approach their work with compassion and open mind.

All behaviour support practitioners at Everyday Independence receive ongoing training, professional development and support to provide evidence-based and person-centred positive behaviour support to people of all ages.

Behaviour support services should be considered if you or someone you care for uses challenging behaviours. These are behaviours that are unexpected and may lead to others around the person feeling frustrated, distressed or fearful.

We promise to help improve the person’s quality of life and those who support them. This includes developing the skills of those supports so that the person’s needs are met and they have the opportunities to make meaningful social connections and participate in the activities they enjoy.