Team Teach Behaviour Support Training For Disability Services
Our Person-Centred Approach Offers Holistic De-escalation and Crisis Intervention Strategies to Reduce Restrictive Practices and Ensure Staff Safety
Why Choose Team Teach Training
We work with you to keep the individuals you support at the heart of everything we do!
Our person-centred approach provides a toolkit of holistic strategies on de-escalation and crisis intervention, both verbal and non-verbal for supporting behaviours of concern with a focus on both reducing and eliminating restrictive practices and keeping staff safe.
practical de-escalation and crisis intervention strategies to develop your team dynamic and shared vision
Our positive toolkit approach gives practical de-escalation and crisis intervention strategies you can use to minimise risk and manage conflict safely and respectfully in your setting. Build individual confidence and expertise so everyone knows how to support behaviours of concern appropriately and consistently.
Use Team Teach training to develop your team dynamic and shared vision of how to support distressed individuals to create, maintain and build strong, positive relationships between staff and individuals.
Available at multiple levels and tailored to your organisation to meet different needs.
All About Team Teach Training for Disability Care Settings
Who is Team Teach Training For?
Everyone in your organisation can benefit from behaviour support training. We carefully design each program to deliver proven, safe strategies suitable for anyone supporting behaviours of concern
Our courses equip individuals with a range of de-escalation and positive behaviour strategies delivered by expert trainers with extensive experience in both education and health and social care settings.
We offer a range of training options suitable for low to high-risk settings, including:
- Disability Services
- Behaviour Support Practitioners
- Behaviour Plan Writers
- Community Services
- Day Care
- School Holiday Programs
- After School Support
- Early Intervention Teams – Early Childhood
- Activity Centres
With our training, all the professionals in your organisation will have the skills and strategies they need to support distressed individuals, from front-line staff to admin and support employees.
What courses do we offer:
Direct Delivery by a Team Teach Trainer:
Level 1 Training: This one-day course explores positive behaviour strategies that you can use in your setting to de-escalate situations, reduce risk, and build stronger relationships with the individuals you support. This course is available both in-person, blended and online. If in person can include safety supports – personal safety and disengagement techniques.
Level 2 Training (9-12 hours): This 1.5/2-day course covers all our level 1 content and has additional time to include a wider range of physical restrictive practices for organisations which have a risk-assessed need for training in these techniques. The emphasis of this course remains on positive behaviour strategies and ways to reduce risk and restraint in your setting. This course is available both in-person and as a blended learning option with a mix of online and in-person training.
Advanced Modules: Subject to training needs analysis, all participants must have a current Level 2 valid certificate in place.
Become a Team Teach Trainer and cascade our training to your organisation:
Foundation Trainer: This online course is delivered over two and a half days, with 3-hours of online learning to be completed before the two full days. Each session is usually a week apart. This course qualifies you to deliver Team Teach Level 1 (theory only) training for your organisation.
Foundation Trainer Plus: This course is delivered over 3 days of in-person training and includes all the Team Teach theory plus safety supports – personal safety and disengagement techniques. This course qualifies you to deliver Team Teach Level 1 training for your organisation.
Intermediate Trainer: This in-person course is delivered over five days. This course qualifies you to deliver Team Teach Level 1 and 2 training for your organisation. You must already hold a minimum of Level 1 training to take this course.
Advanced Trainer: This in-person course is delivered over four days. This course qualifies you to deliver Team Teach Advanced Modules for your organisation. You must already hold an Intermediate Trainer certificate to take this course.
We believe that all behaviour is a form of communication influenced by personal experiences and emotions. Through our training programs, we aim to enhance your understanding of the underlying drivers and motivations behind the behaviours exhibited by distressed individuals, while also providing you with constructive methods to effectively support behaviour.
Build staff confidence
Our positive toolkit approach gives practical de-escalation and crisis intervention strategies you can use to minimise risk and manage conflict safely and respectfully in your setting. Build individual confidence and expertise so everyone knows how to deal with challenging behaviour appropriately and consistently.
Use Team Teach training to develop your team dynamic and shared vision of how to support distressed individuals to create strong, positive relationships between staff and service users.
A toolkit of strategies
Team Teach training helps every individual in your organisation respond in a way that is reasonable, proportionate, and necessary.
Our techniques promote a respectful, supportive approach. You will learn strategies that maintain positive relationships and encourage de-escalation together with a thorough needs analysis. For lower-risk settings, this may include low-level physical intervention techniques, including personal safety, guiding and prompts appropriate for the environment.
For higher-risk settings, our behaviour support training teaches strategies that ensure personal safety and the reduction of risk and reduction of physical intervention. Participants learn a framework of authorised physical intervention techniques specifically designed to support and respond to distressed behaviour safely. This training includes relevant legal standards and expectations related to the use of force, and reporting, recording, monitoring, and evaluating requirements.
We offer a range of delivery options so you can choose the method that suits your needs. Our training is designed to be flexible and meet the needs of a variety of learners. We provide public courses throughout the year all year round across Australia and New Zealand, and private courses are available for organisations at a venue of your choice.
In-person training: Face-to-face sessions are offered specifically for your organisation across Australia and New Zealand, delivered in-house at a venue provided by your organisation. Trainer courses are delivered in a variety of states or can be delivered on-site as a private course for your organisation.
Blended learning: Available for Level 1 and Level 2 courses, reducing the amount of face-to-face time required. Our online modules are self-paced independent learning that can be completed at a time that suits you.
Virtual training: Where there is not a need for physical intervention techniques you can learn from the comfort of your home or workplace with our online learning options. *
Participant Network Agreement
We can work with you to support the wider network around an individual.
The Participant Network Agreement extends to any stakeholders directly involved with the support of the individual, this includes, but not limited to, Carers, Support Workers, Family Members and Appointed Guardians.
If you are working with an individual with a Behaviour Support Plan (BSP) in place, get in touch to discuss bespoke options with us. We build programs to support an individuals’ network, in line with the BSP and ensuring there is time to puzzle solve, continuing to focus on preventative and de-escalation based strategies to reduce risk behaviour and the use of restrictive practices.
