What is Positive Behaviour Support?

PBS is a person-centred approach that focuses on improving a person’s quality of life. The primary goal is to enhance overall well-being and happiness whilst reducing behaviours of concern. Our clinicians use evidence-based strategies to achieve these outcomes. Learn more.

What is a behaviour support plan?

A behaviour support plan is a collaborative document that outlines tailored strategies to support the participant who displays behaviours of concern. Created in partnership with the participant, their family, carers, and other key supports, the plan includes evidence-informed approaches aimed at enhancing the person’s wellbeing, safety, and overall quality of life.

How is Positive Behaviour Support different from other Allied Health services?

Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) focuses on understanding and addressing the underlying causes of behaviours of concern to improve a participant’s quality of life and reduce the need for restrictive practices. Allied health professionals like Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, and Psychologists also support participants and their focus is typically on specific areas of functioning—such as sensory processing and daily living (OT), communication and language (SP), and psychosocial disability, cognition, and emotional regulation (Psychologists). PBS practitioners often collaborate with these disciplines to ensure behaviour support strategies are holistic, integrated, and tailored to the participant’s need

What does a Bloom Behaviour Support practitioner do?

To ensure meaningful and consistent support, Bloom Behaviour Support Practitioners prioritise frequent face-to-face engagement with the participant and their support network. We have streamlined documentation processes so that practitioners can focus more on direct observation, relationship-building, and hands-on implementation of supports. We aim to provide supports in accordance with the funding and clinical need of the participant.

Who is eligible for NDIS-funded Positive Behaviour Support services?

To access Bloom Behaviour Support Services – your NDIS plan will need to have Improved Relationships Funding outlined within the plan.

Bloom Healthcare proivdes NDIS Positive Behaviour Support services in Sydney  and the whole New South Wales region, Brisbane and other locations in South East Queensland, Melbourne and more places in Victoria, Perth and WA, Adelaide and South Australia, Canberra and Tasmania.

What are restrictive practices?

There are five categories of regulated restrictive practices that are monitored by the NDIS Commission. These are the following:

• Seclusion – the sole confinement of a person with disability in a room or a physical space at any hour of the day or night where voluntary exit is prevented, or not facilitated, or it is implied that voluntary exit is not permitted.
• Chemical restraint – the use of medication or chemical substance for the primary purpose of influencing a person’s behaviour. It does not include the use of medication prescribed by a medical practitioner for the treatment of, or to enable treatment of, a diagnosed mental disorder, a physical illness or a physical condition.
• Mechanical restraint – the use of a device to prevent, restrict, or subdue a person’s movement for the primary purpose of influencing a person’s behaviour but does not include the use of devices for therapeutic or non-behavioural purposes.
• Physical restraint – the use or action of physical force to prevent, restrict or subdue movement of a person’s body, or part of their body, for the primary purpose of influencing their behaviour. Physical restraint does not include the use of a hands-on technique in a reflexive way to guide or redirect a person away from potential harm/injury, consistent with what could reasonably be considered the exercise of care towards a person.
• Environmental restraint – Restricting a person’s free access to all parts of their environment, including items or activities.

The Regulated Restrictive Practices Guide outlines NDIS providers’ obligations when implementing regulated restrictive practices.