Completing Functional Behavioural Assessments and PBS Plan Writing Skills
This course is designed for practitioners who have experience of working with individuals who engage in behaviours that pose risk to themselves or others.
It is expected that participants will have an established understanding of Positive Behaviour Support and are implementing their skills in an organisation that support a PBS culture and framework.
This course will prove participants with enhanced skills in how to involve supported people in their PBS planning, utilise assessment tools and how to analyse data collected to inform evidence-based PBS strategies.
Duration: 6 hours
Maximum Capacity: 8-16
Session Format: Classroom Based Learning
Learning Outcomes
Discover the range of skills and learning outcomes you can expect to learn during our course.
Introduction to Positive Behaviour Support, overview of foundations needed for good organisational PBS to be embedded.
Explain how you can ensure you imbed PBS into your practice each day by considering all elements of capable environments.
Explore how the PBS principles highlighted link to previous learning from the Timian programme.
Be able to describe the crisis cycle and how a PBS model can be implemented to support people at different stages of the cycle.
Describe functional assessments and the benefits of utilising this assessment framework when developing positive behavioural support.
Have the ability to describe the different functions of behaviour and behaviours that may be observed in relation to each function.
Discuss the different sources that information can be obtained from and how this can be incorporated into current organisational assessment tools to minimise duplication.
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of different functional assessment tools and when to complete these.
Have the ability to complete and accurately score two different functional assessment tools: Questions About Behaviour Function (QABF) and the Motivational Assessment Scale (MAS).
Explain the importance of accurate and detailed completion of behavioural observations (ABC chart, and other monitoring tools).
Describe how information gathered from assessments ad observations is analysed and applied in the development of pro-active strategies.
Describe how strategies can be developed to teach new functional behaviour / communication skills to reduce engagement in behaviours that pose risk to communicate unmet needs.
Develop and be able to explain to others a variety of evidence based proactive and reactive strategies to form a Positive Behaviour Support Plan for an individual receiving support.
Involving people in the development of their own PBS plans.
Discuss how to triangulate PBS strategies with other care plans, assessments, multi-disciplinary recommendations.
Discuss how strategies can be monitored and analysed to establish the effectiveness of them and how to create tools for effective monitoring.
Describe how to ensure PBS plans are implemented effectively in relation to ensuring staff teams are utilising them and recording behavioural observations to inform ongoing evidence-based strategies.
Discuss the development of an audit tool to capture qualitative and quantitative data in relation to PBS on an individual and organisational level.
Describe why it is important that data is collected and the benefits of providing evidence-based support.
This course is for practitioners who have an established understanding of Positive Behaviour Support and are implementing their skills in an organisation with experience of working with individuals who engage in behaviours that pose risk to themselves or others.
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With our name meaning "learning from experience," Empeiria Training draws on over a century of combined knowledge and expertise. We provide high-quality, tailored training that accommodates all learners' abilities. Our diverse and innovative delivery methods ensure effective learning experiences. We offer a wide range of regularly updated courses that align with sector-wide policy and best practices. We are passionate about involving individuals with lived experience in the development and delivery of our courses. Additionally, our consultancy services provide valuable advice and guidance to organisations supporting individuals with learning disabilities, autism, and mental health diagnoses. Contact us today via our contact form or phone to learn more about how we can benefit your business. We look forward to hearing from you!
What our happy clients said
Nicole was absolutely great she always makes sure we understand what we have been learning and makes it fun and easy!
1st Enabled Ltd
The PBS training will improve my practice by putting all that I have learned to improve the quality of life of the people I support I thoroughly enjoyed the training Keep it up!
The training was very interactive and educational, it will surely improve my practice. The training was perfect in my opinion.
Re-Enabled Support Services (Nantwich)
Excellent PBS and Mental Health First Aid Training 👍 highly recommend the training from Empeiria.
1st Enabled Ltd
Thank you very much Empeiria Training - the feedback from all who attended has been excellent across the team (and that is not always the case when I put training together!) so I'm really pleased that we've got this over the line. We're already reviewing some of our key cases where neurodiversity is a factor, looking at them with fresh eyes and assessing what we can do differently - which is exactly what I wanted. Please pass on my thanks to your expert by experience and your colleagues.
Manchester City Council
The training given was highly informative and will be put go great use within my role at 1st Enable. The trainer made us all feel at ease and encouraged us to use real scenarios and experiences that we feel that the training could be put to use and how it could be used to improve life for the people we support. It is training like this that really enables us to do the best for the people we support.
1st Enabled Ltd
We would like to thank Nicole Jones and Empeiria Training and Consulting for delivering our volunteers their first aid training. Also a big shout out to our volunteers who gave their precious time up to attend the course 😊
We would highly recommend Nicole, as the afternoon was informative, knowledgeable, hands-on, relaxed and easy to follow, whilst both straight to the point and reassuring.
Sleaford Laffletics (Lincoln)
We just completed our first week of training with Empeiria for 1st Enable and our trainer put us all at ease by making the days both informative and fun. Fab work from the trainer for passing on your experience and showing us all a person-centred approach 🙏
1st Enabled Ltd
The PBS training delivered was very insightful and very useful for all staff members. The class was well presented and entertaining. We were very invested and engaged at all the information presented as everyone gained a clearer understanding on the situations they face regarding challenging behaviour. I highly recommend PBS training.
Bonzai Living (Nottingham)
The Training will help me to improve the quality of the services that i provide to the people i support, during the training lots of examples were given which helped me to apply it to various situations. The trainer is an excellent facilitator which helped me to put things into context.
1st Enabled Ltd
I think the safeguarding training that Empeiria provide is brilliant, all other safeguarding training that i have attended has been the standard training, Empeiria's Training is really detailed which helps us to really understand why we do what we do, what has happened in the past and the importance of following the safeguarding process.
1st Enabled Ltd
The moving and handling training was very informative; the trainer went out of her way to ensure she went through any scenario's that we had and how we might be able to safely move people if these situations happen again in the future.
1st Enabled Ltd
Following the training I know that I would be confident to administer first aid efficiently and effectively. The people we support will feel safer knowing that I have the ability to help them if they ever need it. The trainer made the training fun and engaging, I enjoyed it, thank you.
1st Enabled Ltd
Great Manual Handling training by Empeiria the session was informative and fun which doesn’t happen often together, I would highly recommend.
Fantastic Training I usually dread moving and handling but the trainer made the training fun and interactive, the day flew by.
Excellent Training, the Trainer was personable, friendly articulate and funny this made the training enjoyable and educational.
Best most informative Moving and handling training I have attended in over 20+ years, The trainer was experienced and informative and I have learnt more on this moving and handling course that any I have done. I really enjoyed the training it was so informative but fun and interactive too. The trainer explained everything in detail and ensured I understood before moving on. she answered all the questions I had.
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