Getting Ready to Implement Positive Behaviour Support

Positive Behaviour Support is an evidence-based approach for supporting people with a learning disability, autism, multiple complex diagnoses, and complex care and support needs.? The frameworks of Positive Behaviour Support can also be used in other settings such as Dementia Care, Forensic Settings, and education provisions.?

The aim of Positive Behaviour Support is to increase quality of care, quality of life, and through accommodations, environmental adaptations, and skills-based teaching, the barriers a person may face are reduced.?

Embedding and implementing Positive Behaviour Support is often a challenge for different settings.? Hospitals, schools, and even care provider organisations struggle to develop a unified approach that benefits the whole organisation.? Managers and other leaders within an organisation often comment that the biggest barrier to implementation is consistency.

Getting ready to implement Positive Behaviour Support across a setting requires a whole organisation wide approach.? The responsibility for implementing Positive Behaviour Support becomes an organisational responsibility, and not that of one or two people.? This requires:

• A leadership group responsible for developing the organisations strategy.
• This group should consist of people that have a position of seniority that can lead change.
• The group should also include other senior members of the organisation, representatives from service management, a Behaviour Analyst/PBS Practitioner, direct care staff, family members, service users.
• The development of a Positive Behaviour Support policy to inform practice.
• ·Systems and processes to monitor and evaluate implementation.
• Workforce development.
• PBS Lead/Coach to support service and team development plans.
• Training, role-play, modelling, coaching.
• Supervision.

It requires the expertise, within the organisation or through external consultancy, to utilise the frameworks of Organisational Behaviour Management, Capable Environments Framework, Active Support, Function-Based Interventions, and Skills-Based teaching to support the leadership. Expertise in these subject-specific areas is required to realise the organisational strategy, and to put policy into practice.

A Positive-Behaviour Support plan is not an effective person-centred tool without the systems to monitor its implementation and effectiveness. Implementation also requires the systems, supervision, and training plan to support a team. Getting a consistent and predictable approach, where a person feels safe within the support environment is the goal. This requires a whole organisation wide approach.?

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