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other requirements prescribed by the NDIS Practice Standards, most of which are in the Provider Registration Rules. Once registered the provider must then be able to demonstrate ongoing compliance with those standards.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (Quality Indicators) Guidelines 2018 issued by the Commissioner are to be taken into account in assessing compliance with the standards. The guidelines list indicators that help to demonstrate providers' compliance with the standards.
The quality indicators relating to standards that apply to specialist behaviour support service providers refer to NDIS behaviour support practitioners. For example, the indicators in section 38 (Behaviour Support in the NDIS) include that:
            All NDIS behaviour support practitioners have been assessed as suitable to deliver specialised positive behaviour support, including assessments and development of behaviour support plans;
            Each NDIS behaviour support practitioner undertakes ongoing professional development to remain current with evidence-informed practice and approaches to behaviour support, including positive behaviour support; and
            A specialist behaviour support clinical supervisor provides clinical supervision of each work practice of the NDIS behaviour support practitioner.

There are connections between the application process set out in these guidelines and the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework for NDIS providers and behaviour support practitioners and the Self-Assessment Resource Guide for the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework (published by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and accessible on the Commission's website: www.ndiscommission.gov.au.) The Self-Assessment Resource Guide provides tools that a behaviour support practitioner can use to assess his or her capability against the capability levels in the Positive Behaviour Support Capability Framework.

The guidelines in this instrument set out how a practitioner can use these tools to support an application to be considered an 'NDIS behaviour support practitioner'. The application process in the guidelines does not mandate the use of the tools. Practitioners are however encouraged to use them because they may:

            Assist practitioners to build their capability in behaviour support services on an ongoing basis and to demonstrate this to NDIS participants and NDIS providers;

            Assist the Commissioner's consideration of practitioners' applications to be considered a 'NDIS behaviour support practitioner'; and

            Assist practitioners (if registered NDIS providers), and any registered NDIS providers that may engage practitioners, to demonstrate the quality indicators concerning NDIS behaviour support practitioners in their provision of behaviour support services.

Part 1 – Preliminary

   1. Name
  This instrument is the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS Behaviour Support Practitioner Application) Guidelines 2020.

3.   Authority
  This instrument is made under subsection 181D(2) of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013.
Note: Subsection 181D(1) lists the functions of the Commissioner for the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission. They include the behaviour support function in section 181H. Subsection 181D(2) allows the