The Labour Care Health Check for NDIS providers

Preparing for an NDIS audit? Find out exactly where you stand first.

Our team reviews your active documents, registers and systems against the NDIS Practice Standards so you know what to fix, and in what order, before an auditor tells you.

  • Guided by our lead consultants, not a self assessment
  • Ranked against the Practice Standards you actually hold
  • The fee is credited to your first invoice if you continue with us
An NDIS provider owner working through her policy binder and laptop at her office desk
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Sound familiar?

You Think You're Probably Fine. You Just Can't Prove It.

Most providers we speak to are not in crisis. They are busy. The policies were written a while ago, the registers are kept however they are kept, and the owner is doing the admin at night on top of everything else. Nothing is on fire, so nothing gets checked.

Then an audit date lands, or a midterm window opens, or a letter arrives, and the question you have been putting off becomes urgent.

  • Policies that were right when you wrote them, and nobody has checked since
  • An incident and complaints register you are not sure would stand up to a close look
  • Worker screening and training expiries tracked in three different places
  • The same details kept in ShiftCare, a spreadsheet and an email
  • Work health and safety, privacy and employment rules that sit outside your NDIS paperwork

In this sector a failed audit has consequences. The time to know where you stand is before an auditor tells you.

Why a checklist only goes so far

You Don't Know What You Don't Know

A self assessment or template pack

  • You answer questions about requirements you may not know exist
  • You score yourself
  • The same for every provider
  • Ends with a score or a download
  • Nobody to ask afterwards

The Labour Care Health Check

  • Our team reads your active documents
  • Every requirement rated for you
  • Specific to your registration groups and your state
  • Ends with a ranked plan and a findings call
  • A team to call whenever you need one
What the Health Check covers

Six Areas We Review

We look at the documents, records and systems you use today.

1

Document review

Your active policies, procedures and forms, checked against current requirements.

2

Practice Standards

The Core module and every supplementary module checked against the registration groups you hold, with every requirement rated.

3

Registers and records

Incidents, complaints, risk, restrictive practices, worker screening and training expiry. Are they current, and can you evidence them?

4

Systems review

How your roles, sign offs and systems fit together, and where your team's time can go further.

5

Beyond the NDIS

Work health and safety, privacy, employment, clinical governance and the rules in your state, wherever they apply to you.

6

Digital footprint

Your website, social media and online listings, and whether what you say publicly matches how you operate.

Purple, red, yellow, green

Every Finding Ranked by Priority

You get a finite list you can work through, starting with what matters most, and a date to fix each item by.

PurpleCritical. Fix within 14 days.
RedUrgent. Fix within 30 days.
YellowHigh priority. Fix within 60 days.
GreenCompliant. No action needed.
Findings register Illustration
Restrictive practicesAuthorisations and records
Purple
Incident managementReportable incidents and follow up
Red
Worker screeningChecks current, expiries tracked in one place
Yellow
Work health and safetyRisk assessments for home visits
Yellow
Risk managementPolicy current, register reviewed
Green
GovernanceRoles and sign off documented
Green
Illustration of the format only. Your register is built from your own documents.
What you walk away with

A Written Plan You Keep, Whatever You Decide

  • Executive summary. Where you stand, in plain English.
  • Findings register. Every finding rated purple, red, yellow or green, against the Practice Standards and the rules beyond the NDIS.
  • Prioritised roadmap. What to fix, in what order, by when, and the hours each item will take.
  • Three quick wins. Things you can fix this week at no cost.
  • Your next step. Run the roadmap yourself with a consultant on call, or have us implement it with you.
Hands marking a policy binder with coloured page markers
Who does the work

Backed by a Team of Experts

Laura and Hashim lead every Health Check, with the Labour Care team behind them. There is always someone to pick up the phone.

Laura, NDIS Compliance Lead at Labour Care

Laura

NDIS Compliance Lead, Sydney

Hashim, Director at Labour Care

Hashim

Director, Melbourne

We present your findings together, so you hear the compliance and the operational view in one conversation.

Is this for you?

Built for Providers Who Want a Clear Answer

The Health Check is for you if

  • You are registering, or have just registered, and can see the distance between what you have and what an audit will ask for
  • An audit date, a midterm audit window or a letter from the Commission has just landed
  • You think you are probably fine, and you would rather know than hope
  • You bought documents before and nobody has looked at them since
  • You are doing the admin yourself on top of running the business

It is not for you if

  • You want a pack of documents with nobody behind them
  • You want someone to promise you a pass
  • You want someone to take over and run your business for you
How it works

From Discovery Call to Your Findings in Four Steps

You make one decision at a time, and nothing is paid for until you have spoken to us.

1

Book a 30 minute discovery call

With Laura or Hashim. Tell us about your business, and decide if the Health Check suits you.

2

Send us your documents

One list, sent straight after the call. It covers only the documents and records we need to start your review.

3

We review it

Your documents, registers, records and systems, against the Practice Standards for your registration groups.

4

We walk you through it

Your findings are presented live at a strategy call we book with you, so you can ask questions as we go.

Questions

What Providers Ask Before They Book a Health Check

Straight answers, in plain English.

It's one fixed fee depending on the size of your business. We email it to you after your discovery call, before you commit to anything. If you continue with further support, the full fee is credited against your first invoice.

It is a conversation about your business. We ask about your participants, your staff, your registration groups, your systems and your next audit, so we can tell you whether the Health Check is worth it for you.

You can, and we will show you how if you want. The question is whether you have the time to check they fit how your business runs. That is what the Health Check does.

No. We are a compliance consultancy, so we are never competing with you for participants.

No. We support your operations and you stay in control. If you continue with us, we work inside the systems you already use.

No. If you take the plan and run it yourself, that is a good outcome. If you continue, the Health Check fee is credited against your first invoice.

We send you one list after your discovery call. It covers your policies and procedures, your last audit report if you have had one, your registers, worker screening and training records, and the participant and staff files we choose to sample, with details redacted or with consent.

Your findings are ready within 10 business days of receiving your documents.

No. It is a desktop review that shows where you stand and what to fix before your audit. It is separate from a certification of compliance, legal advice or a clinical assessment, and your audit is still conducted by an NDIS Commission approved quality auditor.

Tell us your audit date on the discovery call. It is one of the first things we ask, and it shapes what we look at first.

Book your discovery call

Find Out Where You Stand Before Your Next Audit

Pick a time that suits you. The call takes 30 minutes, with Laura or Hashim.

  • Talk to our consultants about your business
  • Tell us your audit date and your registration groups
  • Leave knowing whether the Health Check is right for you

Prefer to talk now? Call 1800 549 668.

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