Any role that directly delivers a set of ‘ specified supports or services’

a board member of a registered NDIS provider.Ģ.

a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a registered NDIS provider.

Please seek your own independent legal advice on your specific circumstances. There are 3 types of risk assessed roles outlined in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Practice Standards-Worker Screening) Rules 2018.īelow are examples of roles that may be considered risk assessed roles. To contact the NDIS Worker Screening Helpdesk: Providers can contact the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission's Worker Screening Helpdesk for more information on risk assessed roles and compliance requirements.

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.

building a rapport with a person with disability as an integral and ordinary part of the performance of normal duties.

physically touching a person with disability.

is likely to require ‘more than incidental contact’ with people with disability, which includes:.

involves the direct delivery of specified supports or services to a person with disability.is a key personnel role of a person or an entity as defined in s 11A of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (for example, a CEO or a Board Member).keep a written list of all of the organisation's risk assessed roles.assess all roles and identify risk assessed roles.Registered NDIS providers have a requirement to: Registered NDIS providers must comply, amongst other requirements, with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Practice Standards - Worker Screening) Rules 2018 (NDIS Practice Standards). sole traders who, for the NDIS Check, are both the provider and the worker.Ī volunteer must be in a risk assessed role to be eligible for the volunteer fee waiver.workers engaged through third parties such as labour-hire agencies.Who needs to have an NDIS ClearanceĪll individuals starting work for registered NDIS providers in certain types of roles called risk assessed roles will need an NDIS Clearance before they can start work. Thank you for your continued understanding. You can help reduce any unnecessary referrals to our police partners by ensuring that application data is submitted accurately and in full. When responding to concerns about timeframes, the NPCS team escalates concerns to the relevant police jurisdiction, however as there is no definitive amount of time it takes to process a police check, it is always advisable to allow as much time as possible. The remaining 30% of checks are referred to one or more police agencies for manual processing. The NPCS completes around 70% of police checks within minutes, providing a result back to the submitting agency. Resourcing constraints within an affected agency will also likely impact upon the ability to turn around these check results more quickly, particularly during peak periods. The NPCS facilitates over 5 million checks each year, which may result in over 7,000 referrals to police each day. transferring information between the various state and territory police agencies before the information can be vetted and/or released, and.the relevant police agency having inaccurate or incomplete records which need to be investigated properly before the check can be finalised.the check subject having old police information that requires manual collection and processing of hard copy records.the check subject having a common name, or a name that matches with many potential Persons of Interest on policing systems.

There are many reasons as to why some checks take longer than others to process, including:

The NPCS aims to return checks as quickly as possible, however turnaround times are not guaranteed. Police checking in Australia is a partially manual, name-based process, involving many stakeholders.

The National Police Checking Service (NPCS) is currently experiencing an unprecedented use of the system, and due to a number of factors outside of their control there may be significant delays in processing of checks. If you make an offline application instead, due to the unexpectedly large volume of applications currently being received, offline application processing is up to 8 weeks. In most cases, this will be a much shorter period (for example, if there is no criminal history to assess). Applying online through Service Victoria is the fastest way to get your NDIS Check.Īfter your application has been verified it can take up to 3 weeks for us to assess your application.

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