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INNDIS Worker Screening Check
The NDIS Worker Screening Check is the national clearance that assesses whether a person poses an unacceptable risk to people with disability. Registered NDIS providers must ensure that workers in risk-assessed roles — key personnel, anyone delivering specified supports, or roles with more than incidental contact with participants — hold a clearance before they start.
How the system works
- Applied for through state and territory screening units, but recognised nationally — one clearance works across borders and employers.
- Valid for five years, with ongoing monitoring in between: new charges or findings can see a clearance suspended or revoked mid-term.
- Tracked in the national database: providers link each cleared worker to their organisation in the NDIS Commission's Worker Screening Database, which is also how they learn of status changes.
- Providers must verify, not assume — sighting the outcome in the database and keeping records of who holds what, and for which roles.
Unregistered providers and self-managing participants can also ask workers to get the check, and many do as a matter of good practice.
The rostering connection
Screening is ultimately a rostering control: the rule is breached the moment an uncleared worker is put on a risk-assessed shift. Knowing each worker's clearance status — and expiry date — at the point you build the roster is what makes compliance real rather than paperwork.
National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cth) and the NDIS (Practice Standards — Worker Screening) Rules 2018 — overseen by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
Tommy keeps team details and rosters together, so checking that everyone on tomorrow's care shifts is cleared for them takes a glance, not a spreadsheet hunt.