Self-assessment Resource Guide for the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework

The Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework focuses on the knowledge and skills that underpin contemporary evidence-based practice. It reflects the diversity and variation of the sector’s capability in delivering behaviour support, and provides a pathway for recognition and professional progression for behaviour support practitioners.

The aim of the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework is to strengthen the safeguards for people receiving behaviour support, and to demonstrate a commitment to the reduction and elimination of restrictive practices. It establishes clear expectations for behaviour support practitioners and assists them to move towards a higher standard of practice. The framework has four practitioner levels – core, proficient, advanced and specialist.

Assessment against the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework will form the basis for determining suitability as an NDIS behaviour support practitioner. Behaviour support practitioners who have been considered ‘provisionally suitable’ as NDIS behaviour support practitioners to deliver behaviour support services will be notified by the NDIS Commission when they are required to go through the assessment process.

For more information and resources associated with the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework, see 

• Easy Read resource about the framework for NDIS participants.
• The Self-assessment Resource Guide for the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework (2020) 
• The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS behaviour support practitioner application) Guidelines 2020
• Behaviour support practitioner suitability assessments and national implementation program

This Self-assessment Resource Guide complements the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Capability Framework. Its broad purpose is to provide guidance to behaviour support practitioners (whether they are registered providers, or employed or otherwise engaged by registered providers) on how to assess their own capabilities against the PBS Capability Framework.

The Guide aims to:

• build capability in the development of behaviour support
• encourage progressively higher standards in behaviour support services provided to people with disability.

The Guide also provides a toolkit of resources that behaviour support practitioners can use to:

• self-assess their capabilities against the PBS Capability Framework
• develop a Portfolio of Evidence that may be used when applying to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commissioner for a determination of their suitability to undertake activities that, under the NDIS Act, can only be undertaken by an NDIS behaviour support practitioner.

The NDIS Commission will contact behaviour support practitioners when they are required to undertake this process.