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NDIS Worker Screening

Verify a worker's NDIS Worker Screening clearance against the national screening database — and keep watching it across its five-year life.

Who it's for: Compliance admins at NDIS providers and in disability services

Availability: Available — one national clearance, recognised in every state and territory

What you get​

  • Confirm a clearance against the NDIS Worker Screening Database, not a number typed into a spreadsheet
  • Read the same colour-coded outcome vocabulary Oho uses for every other check
  • Have Oho monitor the clearance for suspension or revocation across its five-year term
  • Cover workers anywhere in Australia with one clearance per person, rather than one per jurisdiction
  • Set the source up without handing over a username or password — Oho signs in from a managed service account

Turn it on​

→ Add a credential — choose NDIS Worker Screening, enter the clearance or application number, and Oho checks it against the screening source.

How it works​

The check itself is risk-assessed by the authorised state or territory screening unit; Oho verifies the clearance that results and then re-checks it on the schedule you set. The source works by signing in to the NDIS Worker Screening Database on your behalf, exporting the worker list for the provider organisation it covers, and reconciling that against the clearances your workers hold in Oho.

→ NDIS Worker Screening Check — who needs it, what Oho needs, and how to read the result → NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission — NDIS Worker Screening — the source and how it's set up → Ongoing checks — how re-checking on a schedule works

For developers

Create the credential over the REST API and receive the outcome on the credential.verified event rather than polling for it.

→ Workers & credentials → Webhooks & event delivery

Good to know​

  • An NDIS Worker Screening Check is more comprehensive than a standard police check, and applies to workers in risk-assessed roles delivering NDIS supports or services.
  • Setting the source up needs nothing from you — it's an Oho-managed login, and even the sign-in security code is handled centrally.
  • When you add the source you pair the provider organisation it covers with one of your Oho organisations. One source covers one provider organisation, so add a separate source for each.
  • A clearance is valid for five years, which is why monitoring matters more here than tracking an expiry date alone.
  • To ask a worker for a clearance number you don't hold, send a fetch request.
  • To have NDIS screening requested every time you screen for a role, bundle it into a screening package.