CHCCCS044 - Follow established person-centred behaviour supports

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• principles and practices of positive behaviour support which focuses on the individual person
• a human rights framework of service delivery
• National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Code of Conduct
• the impact of social devaluation on an individual's quality of life
• roles and responsibilities of people involved in provision of care or support:

• support worker
• supervisor
• carer
• family
• health professionals

• positive lifestyle enhancement strategies:

• positive reinforcement
• motivation
• stress management
• engagement in meaningful activities
• support relationships
• nutrition
• environmental and systems improvement
• structural issues including discrimination

• organisational policies and procedures for:

• work health and safety
• intervention and notification
• referral
• reporting
• completing, maintaining and storing documentation
• behaviour management, including:

  critical incidents
  accident and incident reporting

• restrictive practice:

• types of regulated restrictive practices:

  seclusion
  chemical restraint
  mechanical restraint
  physical restraint
  environmental restraint

• unregulated restrictive practices
• human rights considerations for use of restrictive practices
• principles of the National Framework for Reducing and Eliminating the Use of Restrictive Practices in the Disability Service Sector
• role of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission in regulating use of restrictive practices
• when it is acceptable to use restrictive practices
• role of behaviour support practitioner in developing behaviour support plan that includes restrictive practices
• consequences of unauthorised use of restrictive practices
• positive proactive approaches to support that eliminate the need to use restrictive practices
• physical, psychological and emotional risks related to the use of restrictive practices
• processes for reporting changes in behaviour that may require review of the restrictive practices in the behaviour support plan
• documentation of use of restrictive practices:

  organisational policies and procedures
  regulatory and legislative requirements for documentation

• principles of effective communication and ways to implement these to work with the person to minimise behaviours of concern
• indicators that people have unmet needs which may be:

• systemic
• structural
• individual
• relational
• cultural

• factors that may contribute to behaviours of concern:

• physical
• emotional
• environmental
• medications
• structural
• systemic
• relational

• specialist services and referral options
• legal and ethical considerations for working with people with receiving care or support:

• codes of conduct
• dignity of risk
• duty of care
• human rights, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
• constraint
• imprisonment
• abuse, neglect and exploitation
• practice standards
• work health and safety
• structural and systemic issues:

  poverty
  housing
  lack of access to resources.