Behaviour Support Planning

Who should attend:

Aged Care Services – Staff responsible for completing behaviour assessments, plans and reviews in aged care residential and home care services

NDIS Services – Staff who work with Behaviour Support Practitioners to inform behaviour assessments and plans. Staff responsible for implementing plans, behaviour monitoring and identifying when plans need reviewing

This combination of e-learning and live online training will ensure you have the foundational knowledge about why challenging behaviour happens and how to respond. In addition, it will step you through completing best practice behaviour support planning using a risk management approach to ensure legal compliance, risk reduction and plans that are useful to staff

You will receive the eLearning invite approx. 1 week prior to the workshop. The 2 modules must be completed to receive the Zoom link for the live online training.

Part 1: eLearning – 90 minutes

Behaviour Support: Module 1

Completion of this module is to ensure attendees have foundational knowledge on:

• What behaviour support means and its benefits
• How to use a behaviour support plan in practice
• Reasons behaviours of concern happen
• How to respond to challenging behaviours and monitor behaviours
• The role of care and support staff in meeting the persons needs

 Behaviour Support: Module 2

Completion of this module is to ensure attendees have knowledge on:

• Risk management role of behaviour support planning in preventing harm and minimising the use of restrictive practice
• Best practice elements to apply to behaviour support planning
• Aged Care and NDIS legal requirements for behaviour support and restrictive practice use
• Aged Care services – who to involve in a behaviour assessment, what to cover and how to document it
• NDIS services – how to participate and understand the assessment process
• What to include in an Aged Care behaviour support plan
• How to use an NDIS Behaviour support plan
• Role of behaviour monitoring and the useful information to collect
• Defensible documentation of a behaviour plan review and the process to demonstrate restrictive practice use is minimised, quality of life is supported, and risks are identified and actioned

Part 2: Live Online Training via Zoom – 2 hours

Translate knowledge into practice, receive feedback, build and consolidate skills

• Refreshing the key points to achieve best practice and legal compliance
• Case study practice of behaviour assessment and planning to turn knowledge into practice
• Discussion on decision making in support plan reviews