PBS Plan Writing and Completing Functional Behaviour Assessments

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.

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Duration: 6 hours

Max Capacity: 8-16

Session Format: Classroom Based Learning

PBS Plan Writing and Completing Functional Behaviour Assessments Course Overview

Over a 6‑hour classroom session with 8–16 participants, you will learn how to involve supported individuals in Positive Behaviour Support planning, use assessment tools, and analyse data to inform evidence‑based behaviour support strategies.

What's Involved?

This training session provides a practical and in-depth exploration of how to carry out functional behavioural assessments (FBA) and use the findings to create positive, person-centred PBS plans. You’ll gain the knowledge and tools to identify the reasons behind challenging behaviours and design effective support strategies tailored to individual needs.

Delivered in a classroom-based setting, this course encourages active participation through group discussions. The environment is designed to help learners build confidence, and develop the practical skills required to embed PBS principles into their roles.

By the end of the session, learners will be equipped with a practical framework for using evidence-based strategies to promote safer, more consistent, and person-centred behavioural support.

Our training covers several key areas, including:

Understanding the foundations and values of Positive Behaviour Support

How to use the crisis cycle to apply the right PBS strategies at the right time

Using tools like ABC charts, QABF, and MAS to collect and analyse behavioural data

Identifying behavioural functions and translating this into meaningful, proactive support

Designing PBS plans that include teaching new functional and communication skills

Aligning behavioural support with wider care plans and multi-disciplinary input

Implementing plans effectively across teams and evaluating their success in practice

Learning Outcomes

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.

PBS Plan Writing and Completing Functional Behaviour Assessments Course Benefits

Enhance evidence‑based practice

You will gain confidence using standardised assessment tools, enabling you to base behavioural support plans on analysed data rather than guesswork.

Improve consistency across your service

With shared tools, language, and methodologies, your team can work more coherently, reducing contradictory interventions.

Empower supported individuals

By involving people in their own behaviour planning, you increase ownership, dignity, and the likelihood that plans succeed.

Better risk management

The training helps you identify and respond proactively to behaviours that pose risk, reducing crises and ensuring safer care environments.

Foster professional development

Attending the course deepens staff expertise in behavioural assessment and supports professional development for your organisation.

Develop confidence in complex casework

This course equips staff to handle more complex behavioural challenges by providing a structured approach to assessment and planning. This helps teams feel more confident when supporting individuals whose behaviour poses risk or distress.

Who is this course suitable for?

This course is ideal for professionals already familiar with PBS who want to deepen their skills in functional assessment and plan development.

If you work in settings with people who display challenging or risky behaviours, such as supported living, residential care, education, or specialist services, this course supports your capacity to deliver safer, more person‑centred support.

By attending, you and your team will gain confidence in using assessment tools and interpreting behavioural data, improving the quality of behavioural support plans in your service, and ensuring practices are evidence‑based, consistent, and responsive to individual needs.

A Special Mention

"I wanted to say a huge thank you for the 2 day restraint training you provided. As a parent I found it so comforting and reassuring to be trained with my son’s new staff team. Hearing how much emphasis was placed on values really impressed me. As did the training which really looked at avoiding having to use restraint. The training was really able to be tailored to the individual needs of my son which was incredibly helpful for all his new staff who I believe came away with a really deep knowledge of his triggers and how to de-escalate him.

I would recommend it to any parent in the position of their young person moving into supported living. Not only was it a great way to start building relationships with his staff but it was incredibly reassuring to know that the care company are really invested in finding the right training which focuses on treating their service users as people and want staff with the right values working with him. I can’t thank you enough for letting me attend. I know that some trainers would find it difficult training parents along side staff because it could have the potential to alter the dynamics so I’m really delighted you allowed me the opportunity.

A huge thank you from a very reassured mum!"

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