PBS: Models and Legislation - micro-credential

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.

Developing a responsive and highly skilled care and support workforce is crucial to meeting the current and future needs of people with disabilities.

This online course is designed for NDIS-registered behaviour support practitioners or other allied health professionals who want to broaden their knowledge of positive behaviour support approaches. Its development has been supported by the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH) Victoria.

Taught by leading experts, this course provides essential practitioner training that's aligned to capability skills outlined within the NDIS Positive Behavior Support Capability Framework.

Examine core factors that contribute to behaviours of concern

Broaden your understanding of behaviours of concern as a social construct and their underlying factors. Explore the biopsychosocial model for key insights into what shapes these behaviours and develop the analytical skills needed to discern when intervention is necessary.

Delve deeper into the PBS Capability Framework

Gain a valuable overview of positive behaviour support and understand its context within the human rights framework. Learn to implement contemporary positive behaviour support approaches for people with disabilities and identify ways the PBS Capability Framework can be used to monitor and promote human rights, quality of life, and capable environments.

Analyse fundamental concepts and theories for addressing behaviours of concern

Develop a deeper understanding of social constructs like quality of life, wellbeing, and their relationship to behaviours of concern and positive behaviour support. Examine the capable environments concept and the roles played by different aspects of the social, physical, and organisational environment in preventing behaviours of concern.

Gain valuable practical skills you can apply to your career

Apply your new knowledge to an evidence-based case study that draws on the positive behaviour support framework and prioritises human rights, quality of life, and the creation of capable environments to improve the support offered to individuals with disabilities.

PBS: Models and Legislation is ideal for behaviour support practitioners who intend to register, or are registered, with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) as sole practitioners or who will be engaged by a service provider registered with the NDIS.

Practitioners must deliver specialist positive behaviour support to people with disabilities, as outlined in the NDIS (Quality Indicators) Guidelines 2018. This requires practitioners to meet, or work towards, the capability requirements in the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Capability Framework.

Learning in this course is equivalent to Level 8 of the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF).

Please note, this course is for group bookings only.

PBS: Models and Legislation is aligned with the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework, which aims to embed a stronger learning system and culture for NDIS-registered behaviour support practitioners

This encourages positive behaviour support practitioners or other allied health professionals who intend to register with the NDIS to undertake flexible and requirements-based training and development that enables rapid professional development.

By the end of this course, you'll have a stronger understanding of positive behaviour support approaches. You'll be able to:

• Analyse factors that precipitate and maintain behaviours of concern using knowledge of the biopsychosocial model, human rights, and capable environments (KC1, KC3)
• Suggest appropriate ways to monitor and promote human rights, quality of life, and capable environments using the positive behaviour support framework and knowledge of relationship between behaviours of concern and quality of life (KC2, KC3, KC4)
• Analyse regulated restrictive practices and recommend appropriate uses that promote human rights and are within legislative requirements (KC5, KC4)

This course runs over 8 weeks.

Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:

• 15 hours self-study, including peer learning
• 7 hours guided learning, including participation in webinars
• 20 hours for assessment activities, including 5 hours guided learning.

Assessment:

• Case study: apply an evidence-informed Positive Behaviour Support approach promoting human rights, quality of life, and capable environments (60%)
• Case analysis: Analyse, recommend and report regulated restrictive practices within ethical, legal and policy requirements (40%).

Upon completion of this course, you will receive the PBS: Models and Legislation Melbourne MicroCert - The University of Melbourne's unique micro-credential digital certificate. This certificate demonstrates that you have acquired the knowledge, skills, and abilities outlined in the course's learning outcomes. The certificate may also include artefacts such as videos and written materials related to both experimental and work-integrated learning, as well as relevant assessments applicable to your professional life. You can add your Melbourne MicroCert to your social media platforms, such as LinkedIn, and share it with others. Please see example certificate.

PBS: Models and Legislation can be taken as a stand-alone micro-credential or complemented with any other course in the Positive Behaviour Support suite to deepen your knowledge and skills.

This series includes:

• PBS: Models and Legislation
• PBS: Assessment and Planning
• PBS: Specialist Forensic Disability Practice
• PBS: Autism Affirming Practice
• Authorised Program Officer Professional Development

In our digital learning environment, you'll learn alongside other engaged professionals and participate in live, interactive webinars with leading experts. You'll explore real-world case studies and have access to tailored multimedia recordings and resources, and have time for independent study and learning tasks, so you can begin putting your new knowledge into practice in your everyday work as an APO.

There is no set expiry date.