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Healthcare has run on contracted practitioners for decades. Locums, visiting specialists and contract nursing are normal, and the registration underpinning them is national and publicly checkable, which makes verification more straightforward here than in most sectors.

This page covers what gets subcontracted in this sector, the credentials worth confirming, and how a job runs on Workforce Marketplace. Early access is open.

What gets subcontracted

The engagements that most often run on a contract basis include:

GP locum cover for practices, including after-hours and rural placements
Specialist locum cover across medicine, surgery, anaesthetics, emergency and psychiatry
Agency and contract nursing, including nurse practitioners and midwives
Contract paramedicine for events and industrial sites
Visiting practitioner arrangements with practices and day facilities
Telehealth sessional work
Clinical governance, audit and accreditation support

Credentials that matter here

Registration is national through AHPRA and is searchable on the public register, so the check is genuinely quick:

AHPRA Registration, Medical, with the practitioner’s registration type and any conditions or undertakings recorded against it
AHPRA Registration, Nursing and Midwifery, including endorsements for nurse practitioners
AHPRA Registration, Paramedicine for contract paramedics
Professional indemnity insurance, which is a registration requirement in its own right and should be confirmed as current and adequate for the scope of practice
Working With Children Check or Blue Card where the work involves children
NDIS Worker Screening Check where services are delivered to participants
First aid and life support currency appropriate to the setting

The public register shows conditions, undertakings and reprimands as well as registration status. Checking that a practitioner is registered is not the same as checking whether their registration carries restrictions, and the second question is the one that matters.

What to confirm before work starts

An active ABN. Where a supplier does not quote one, you are generally required to withhold 47 per cent of the payment and remit it to the ATO. Their GST registration also tells you whether the price should carry it.

That the credential is held by the entity you are contracting with. A person can hold a qualification while the business you are paying holds nothing. Check the name on the document against the name on the invoice.

Insurance appropriate to the scope. Public liability is the common one. Depending on the work you may also need professional indemnity, and workers compensation if they carry their own staff.

That the engagement is genuinely a contract for services. Since the Fair Work amendments the test looks at the real substance of the relationship rather than the label on the paperwork, and getting it wrong creates back-pay, superannuation and payroll tax exposure. Contractor vs employee in Australia sets out how it now works.

Writing a scope that gets comparable quotes

Locum and sessional engagements go wrong on the terms around the clinical work rather than the work itself. Set out the sessions and hours, who bills and who retains the billings, what the indemnity arrangement is and who covers what, whether accommodation and travel are included on a rural placement, what happens with recalls and after-hours, and who holds responsibility for clinical handover and records.

How it works on Workforce Marketplace

Post the scope with the payment structure it actually uses, whether that is fixed price, hourly, daily, quoted or split into milestones for staged work. Subcontractors apply, and you compare them side by side rather than chasing callbacks.

Every account is ABN-verified at sign-up. Beyond that, subcontractors can submit licences, certifications and insurance for verification, which we review rather than grant automatically. Their profile shows the status against each credential without showing the document, the licence number or the ABN. Verification is opt-in, so a profile may hold credentials that have not been submitted, and it reflects the document as at the date it was reviewed rather than standing indefinitely.

Applying for work costs nothing and there are no leads to buy. Payment runs through Stripe, and Workforce Marketplace never stores your card or bank details.