Positive Behaviour Support
Julie-Anne Waitman supports services to manage challenging behaviours. She delivers PBS training to all of our staff, which coaches support workers and supports staff teams to write and follow PBS care plans.
All behaviour happens for a reason!
What is PBS (Positive Behaviour Support)?
Positive Behavioural Support is a multifunctional way of supporting our Service Users that has two main focuses; the first is to improve the individual’s quality of life, and the second is to reduce the behaviours that challenge.
Currently, we have three levels of staff who are qualified through Northumbria University, Health Education England and the PBS Framework – these levels are PBS Lead, PBS Facilitators, and PBS support workers.
We are continuously developing our competent PBS team within New Beginnings North East Ltd, enabling us to support our Service Users by providing safe, consistent, and predictable environments to encourage a good quality of life through a functional assessment and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
How do we do this?
Prevent
We Start BEFORE there is a problem by:
Providing a safe, consistent and predictable environment – encouraging participation in meaningful activities for each individual and having a detailed person centred support plan available for everyone we care for.
All behaviour happens for a reason so when someone behaves in a way that challenges others they are probably trying to met an important need.
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Connecting with others (social interaction)
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How to leave difficult situation (escape/avoidance)
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Prevent being bored (sensory stimulation)
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Access to things they like (tangibles)
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Prevent being in pain (pain relief)
The Plan to Improve quality of life and reduce behaviours that challenge
To do this we need to do a functional behaviour assessment and work together as a team so the individual no longer needs to show behaviours that challenge to meet their needs.
Step 1.
Find out why the behaviour occurs. Collect information and involve everyone around the individual.
Step 2.
Start the PBS plan from step 1. Help the individual learn better ways to meet their need and help them change the environment around them.
Step 3.
Use the plan to promote quality of life so that everyone understands and everyone can use it.
Step 4.
Record data and use this to review the plan – making sure it is working well for the individual.
Step 5.
Its effective when quality of life is improved – promote social interaction, impudence, well-being, equality and happiness.
Step 6.
PBS is long term! PBS plans are individually reviewed by Julie-Anne as the person develops new interests, aims or behaviours.