Person-Centred Practice

Valued status is easier to maintain when community, organisational and individual supports are in place to enable more participants to have a good quality of life, greater ability to manage their own lives, stronger social relationships, a greater sense of purpose, skills for living and working, improved chances in education, better employment rates, and a suitable and stable place to live.

I will value all participants and support a person-centred approach in which the needs and desires of the participant form the basis of the support and services provided to them. I will:

Promote that every participant has the inherent right of worth, dignity and respect

Promote the right of freedom from judgement in all aspects of their lifestyle

Respect the rights and dignity of worth of every participant

Acknowledge the individuality of each participant in considering their needs and goals, responding to a diversity of individual needs, methods of communication, learning and lifestyles

Acknowledge the autonomy of each person and their need to make their own decisions

Seek to empower the participant so that they are in a position to exercise control

Engage and involve people with a disability in meaningful ways in all issues concerning them, involve them from the start in identifying what matters, and work with them to find the best ways of providing support either directly or indirectly

Seek to design and provide support only to the extent that it is needed, to enable the person’s participation

Value, facilitate and promote the person’s right to dignity of risk with appropriate support and within legislative requirements and statutory guidelines

That individuals have the right to express their feelings, ideas and beliefs and will be listened to and respected

Support trans-disciplinary team approaches where I may work directly or indirectly with the person and significant others throughout the community both internal and external to my organisation or my field of endeavour to achieve person centred outcomes

Report immediately any breeches of this principle to my immediate coordinator