Get more out of life today with Positive Behaviour Support

At Real Therapy Solutions, we understand that every behaviour serves a purpose. If you or a loved one is experiencing behaviours of concern, we can provide supports that enable them to live their best lives.

Behaviour Support in Sydney & Wollongong

Our goal is to empower you by developing personalised strategies that foster independence and enhance wellbeing. We will work closely with you and your support people to develop tailored strategies that meet your specific needs, while also creating a supportive environment.

Our highly skilled team of Behaviour Support Practitioners is here to support you every step of the way.

What does a Behaviour Support Practitioner do?

Understand the reasons behind behaviours of concern

Develop a behaviour support plan that addresses behaviours of concern

Teaching new skills to communicate, manage emotions and interact with others

Make your environment more supportive like changes to daily routines or communication systems

Collaborate with your support people to create a consistent and positive environment

Support you and your support people to be safe

What are the responsibilities of a Behaviour Support Practitioner?

Behaviour Support Practitioners have an important role in helping Participants with behaviours of concern stay safe. They need to complete various reports to show how they manage the behaviour and meet the requirements of the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.

Services provided

Initial assessment

Understand Behaviour of Concern

Discuss and set client goals

Identifying and assessing restrictive practices

Functional Behaviour assessment

Formulation (providing a better understanding of the person)

Observations of the person and interviews with support system

Data collection and feedback

Behaviour support plans

Developing interim and/or comprehensive behaviour support plan

Information / Support letters to NDIS

Intervention

Implementation

Resource development

Travel out to your/client environments

Positive Behaviour Support Plans / Reports

Report	Hours *	Due
Interim Behaviour Support Plan	10 - 12	Within 1 month of services starting
Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan	30 - 50	Within 6 months of services starting
Review behaviour support Plan	15 - 30	Once a year
Plan reassessment report	2 - 3	6-12 weeks before the participant's NDIS plan ends

*Hours are an approximation. Actual hours are dependent on the complexity of the case.

Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners engage in both face-to-face and non-face-to-face work to fulfill these requirements.

Face-to-face work includes:

Interviews with the participant or their supports

Observing the participant in various environments

Training support people how to manage behaviours of concern

Non-face-to-face includes:

Reviewing past reports to learn about the participant’s behaviours of concern

Collecting, analysing and interpreting data on the participant’s behaviours of concern

Developing an understanding of the behaviour’s causes

Researching evidence-based strategies that will support the participant

Creating training resources for skill building

Quality assurance which involves a senior member of the clinical team reviewing and updating Behaviour Support Plans to ensure restrictive practices are used safely, and behaviour management strategies are based on your wants and needs.

What are restrictive practices?

Positive Behaviour Support also aims to reduce and eliminate the use of Restrictive Practices. Restrictive Practices are ways of stopping or changing challenging behaviour to keep NDIS Participants and the people that support them safe. Restrictive Practices can remove a NDIS Participants’ rights and stop them from doing what they want to do or going where they want to go.

Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners will make sure that Restrictive Practices are only used:

After trying other ways of stopping or changing behaviours of concern

In a way that has the least impact on the Participants’ rights

Alongside other behaviour management strategies, including skill building

For the shortest time possible

Why choose Real Therapy Solutions?

We have over 20 years of experience providing behaviour support.

Plans are easy to read and follow, with practical and realistic strategies – NO TECHNICAL JARGON.

No two plans are the same. They are not generalised behaviour management strategies.

We have extensive experience in understanding and documenting restrictive practices.

All our practitioners are supervised by practitioners who have years of experience.

All our practitioners undergo our own competency-based training program in addition to the NDIS Commission self-assessment process.

Other organisations come to us to train their practitioners in behaviour support.