Reflecting on the current fluid NDIS landscape: Where is the PBS leadership?

Jeff has more than 20-years Senior Executive experience in both not-for-profit and Government settings in operational and practice leadership roles. Including an inaugural statutory in the protection of the rights of people with disability and compulsory treatment in Victoria, and as an inaugural Governor-in-Council appointment as Director of Forensic Disability and Chief Practitioner to protect the rights of people with cognitive disability in the disability forensic system. More recently, he was the Deputy Commissioner, Practice Quality division at the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission where he was part of the ‘foundation’ team.

Jeff has extensive experience in resolving sensitive and complex disability matters, and provides sound authoritative advice at Department Secretary level, to Disability Ministers, State/Territory senior officers, statutory officers, CEO and Boards. He has led organisational, State and national transformation initiatives, and reform programmes (abuse prevention) in quality and safeguarding, clinical governance, application of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in practice and organisational systems, and regulatory compliance. Together with Australian colleagues, Jeff has led influential research on the quality of BSPs, rights-based legislation, PBS and the elimination of restrictive practices for more than 17 years. He is an Adjunct Professor, University of Queensland and former Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney. He combines practice insight into research rigour, pragmatic policy and rights-based legislation.