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Disability and aged care

Hiring disability support workers

A disability support worker agency supplies NDIS-screened staff to registered and unregistered providers. The clearance that matters is the NDIS Worker Screening Check, which lasts five years. Ready & Cleared holds that clearance and its expiry date for every worker in the pool, and charges a flat $3,900 per permanent placement rather than a percentage.

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Key facts

What this costs, against what the market charges

Almost no agency publishes a placement fee. The number below is the published vendor benchmark for Australian permanent placement, and beside it is ours, which is simply the price.

Benchmark figures as published by vendor sources and recorded in our brief; our own figures are the current published price. Checked 2026-10-25.
Way of buying Typical market Ready & Cleared
Permanent placement $7,700 to $11,550 12–18% of a $64,200 salary $3,900 flat, published
Casual or temp placement An hourly margin rarely published $1,900 flat, published
Ongoing access Not usually offered fees are per placement $390 a month unlimited introductions
Cost to the worker $0 $0

On the benchmark figures that is a difference of $3,800 to $7,650 on a single permanent placement. The percentage band is a vendor benchmark rather than a regulated rate, so treat it as indicative. Our own figure is not indicative; it is published and it is the price.

What a support worker has to hold

These are the credentials the roles on this page require. We hold the document, record what it says, and track the expiry. Where a public register exists we confirm against it; where one does not, we say so rather than implying a check we did not make.

Exactly what each of those words means, including the ones we cannot verify.

Roles this covers

Rates shown are the SCHADS minimum from 1 July 2026. Where no rate is shown we have not verified one.

Why the pool is not just a list

Every worker is asked every 14 days whether they are still looking, and drops out of the pool at 28 days if they do not answer. That is the whole product. A database nobody maintains is the thing you already have.

What we will never do is tell you somebody is suitable. We have not met them. You get dated facts and the documents behind them, and you make the call.

Common questions

Do your disability support workers hold an NDIS Worker Screening Check?

Where the record says so, yes, and the page shows the date we confirmed it against the register. Where we have not confirmed it, the record says that instead. We publish the gap rather than fill it.

Is a police check enough instead?

Not for NDIS risk-assessed roles. A national police certificate has no formal expiry and most providers want one issued within the last 12 months, but it does not substitute for worker screening.

Can you confirm somebody is suitable to work with a participant?

No, and we will not imply it. This sector supports vulnerable people, and a confident guess dressed up as an assessment is worse than saying nothing. We pass on dated facts and the documents behind them.

Background worth reading

Wondering what everyone else charges? What recruitment agencies charge in Australia sets out the band, what it costs at each salary, and the one published figure that beats ours.

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What it costs, in full

Figures on this page were checked on 2026-10-25. Where a figure is a vendor benchmark rather than ours, it says so beside the number.