WWVP and the NDIS

If you work or volunteer for a registered National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) provider you may need an NDIS Worker clearance in addition to your Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP) registration.

An NDIS activity is a regulated activity in the ACT, as defined by the WWVP legislation.

The NDIS Worker Screening Database holds the screening status of NDIS workers.

Visit the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (NDIS Commission) website.

Registered NDIS providers

Registered NDIS providers must:

• identify which roles in their organisation are risk-assessed
• ensure the people in those roles have an NDIS clearance. That includes paid workers, volunteers, third-party labour hire and sole traders.

Risk-assessed roles include those that:

• involve direct delivery of specified supports or services to a person with disability
• are likely to need ‘more than incidental contact’ with people with disability
• are key personnel roles such as CEO or a Board Member

Read about identifying risk-assessed roles on the NDIS Commission website.

If you’re not engaged in a risk-assessed role you don’t need an NDIS clearance.

Your employer may still ask you to apply for an NDIS worker check to get a clearance.

Unregistered NDIS providers and self-managed participants

Unregistered NDIS providers can ask workers to have an NDIS worker check, but it’s not mandatory.

Self-managed participants can also ask their NDIS workers to have an NDIS worker check.

Apply for an NDIS worker clearance

The application for a WWVP registration with NDIS clearance uses the same forms and processes.

Read about applying for a Working with Vulnerable People registration.

When you apply for WWVP registration including NDIS clearance you need to nominate at least one employer to endorse your NDIS application.

The employer needs to have access to and be listed as an employer on the NDIS Worker Screening Database (NWSD). You will need to ask your employer for their NDIS employer ID so you can select them from the list.

You can nominate:

• a registered NDIS provider
• an unregistered NDIS provider
• a self-managed participant
• yourself if you are self-employed and have access to the NWSD.

Read about requesting access to the database on the NDIS Commission website.

If your NDIS clearance is granted your WWVP registration card will indicate ‘NDIS ACTIVITIES – Yes’.

Cards with ‘NDIS ACTIVITIES – No’ don’t prevent the holder from working for NDIS providers if:

• holding NDIS clearance isn’t mandatory, or
• you’re not in a risk-assessed role.

WWVP registration issued before February 2021

You can work with your WWVP (unrestricted) general registration in NDIS activities if it was either:

• issued before 1 February 2021, or
• an existing registration that was extended from 3 to 5 years (you received a letter from Access Canberra).

Your current registration is considered a registration to work in NDIS activities.