Registered NDIS providers must make sure that key personnel and other workers in certain types of roles have a NDIS Worker Check clearance.
Risk-assessed roles
Workers who are engaged in risk-assessed roles must have an NDIS Worker Check clearance.
A risk-assessed role is one that:
- involves the direct delivery of specified supports or services to a person with disability
- is likely to require ‘more than incidental contact’ with people with disability, which includes:
- physically touching a person with disability, or
- building a rapport with a person with disability as an integral and ordinary part of the performance of normal duties, or
- having contact with multiple people with disability as part of the direct delivery of a specialist disability support or service, or in a specialist disability accommodation setting.
- is a key personnel role, for example a CEO or a board member.
Registered NDIS providers are responsible for identifying which roles are risk-assessed roles.
For more information see worker screening for registered providers, NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
Who does not need an NDIS Worker Check
Secondary school students on a formal work experience placement engaged in a risk-assessed role do not need an NDIS Worker Check if they are directly supervised by another worker who has an NDIS Worker Check.
Workers of registered NDIS providers who are not engaged in a risk-assessed role do not need an NDIS Worker Check. However, registered NDIS providers may choose to ask those workers to apply for an NDIS Worker Check and obtain a clearance.
Workers of unregistered NDIS providers and self-managed participants do not need a check. However, they may choose to ask those workers to apply for an NDIS Worker Check and get a clearance.
Contact
enquiries@workerscreening.sa.gov.au
Contact the Screening Unit
Phone
1300 321 592
Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm.
In person
You can only contact the Screening Unit by phone or email.
