This CPD-accredited Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Awareness course helps care staff understand behaviour as communication and respond in more proactive, person-centred, and least restrictive ways. Learners will explore the key principles of PBS, how to recognise patterns and triggers, how support plans help reduce distress, and how everyday practice can improve quality of life.
Coming Soon: This courses will be released on 1st May 2026.
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Explain what Positive Behaviour Support is and why it matters.
- Understand behaviour as communication and consider what may be driving distress.
- Recognise the core values and principles that underpin good PBS practice.
- Identify proactive, preventative, and least restrictive ways to reduce distress.
- Understand the purpose of behaviour support plans and how they guide consistent care.
- Respond more safely and confidently when behaviour begins to escalate.
- Record useful observations and contribute to review and learning.
- Recognise how good PBS supports dignity, rights, inclusion, and quality of life.
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Overview
This course is suitable for:
- Care Workers.
- Support Workers.
- Team Leaders.
- Senior Care Staff.
- Nurses.
- Staff working in care homes, supported living, and community services.
What Positive Behaviour Support is and how it helps improve quality of life.
Understanding behaviour as communication rather than simply something to manage.
Common reasons behaviour may occur, including communication needs, sensory factors, pain, anxiety, trauma, environmental mismatch, and lack of control or choice.
How to use ABC thinking to understand patterns, triggers, and what may be maintaining behaviour.
The core values of PBS, including co-production, person-centred practice, least restrictive practice, rights, dignity, and trauma-informed support.
- What good PBS looks like in everyday care settings.
- How behaviour support plans are developed and used in practice.
- Proactive strategies that help prevent distress, including environmental adjustments, predictability, communication support, choice, and skill-building.
- Reactive strategies that remain calm, respectful, proportionate, and least restrictive.
- Recognising stages of escalation and responding early to reduce distress.
- The importance of recording, review, debrief, and continuous improvement.
- How teams, leaders, and services can embed PBS into everyday practice.
- Short videos, interactive tasks, knowledge checks, and a final assessment.
Approx. 45 minutes, including videos, interactive tasks, and knowledge checks, though this may vary by learner.
Hugh Asher, BSc (Hons), MSc (Merit), PhD (Applied Social Science)
As a course consultant, Hugh brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to his role. His extensive background in working with individuals with diverse needs, combined with his passion for utilising nature as a therapeutic tool, allows him to provide valuable insights and guidance to learners.
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