CHCCCS044 - Follow established person-centred behaviour supports

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each units learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

• provide positive support in accordance with an individualised behaviour support plan in response to at least three different presentations of behaviours of concern
• respond to at least one critical incident relating to a behaviour of concern in accordance with an individualised behaviour support plan and organisational policies and procedures.

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.