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Aged care and disability support carry a screening regime that is stricter than a police check and is not interchangeable with one. A worker screening clearance is an ongoing status that can be revoked, not a certificate issued once.

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 work most often subcontracted covers:

Support work delivered in participants’ homes and in the community
Overnight and sleepover shifts, and short notice cover
Specialist disability accommodation support
Allied health and therapy supports delivered under a plan
Support coordination and plan management
Transport and community access supports
Clinical and personal care in residential aged care

Credentials that matter here

The screening and qualification requirements are set by the scheme rather than by a trade authority:

NDIS Worker Screening Check, issued by the state screening unit and monitored continuously. It is not satisfied by a police check
Working With Children Check or Blue Card where supports are delivered to children
Certificate III in Individual Support (CHC33015) or equivalent for personal care work
First aid and CPR currency, and Mental Health First Aid where the cohort warrants it
AHPRA Registration where the support is a registered health service rather than a support service
Provider registration where the subcontractor delivers registered supports in their own right

Where a registered provider subcontracts to an unregistered one, the registered provider retains the obligations under the Practice Standards. Subcontracting the work does not subcontract the accountability, and that is the single most important thing to understand before setting one of these arrangements up.

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

These engagements fail on the operational detail. Set out who holds the participant relationship, how rosters and cancellations work and who wears the cost of a short-notice cancellation, what the incident reporting obligation is and who reports to the Commission, how notes and records are kept and who owns them, what the escalation path is out of hours, and what happens if a screening clearance is suspended mid-engagement.

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.

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