CareReady Registration
Audit-ready by the time you decide to register.
What this actually is
The paperwork half of registering, already done.
Who it is for
What it fixes
What an auditor asks for
17 items, and 5 of them are things you already keep.
This list is read out of the checker itself as this page renders, so it is the same 17 the working feature grades you against.
5 you already keep in CareReady
Identity and qualifications
Proof of who you are (photo ID) and evidence of any relevant qualifications, like a Certificate III in Individual Support.
NDIS Worker Screening Check
Your NDIS Worker Screening Check clearance — mandatory before you can work with NDIS participants.
First aid and CPR
A current first aid certificate, plus CPR — CPR needs renewing every 12 months even though first aid doesn't.
Insurance
Public liability and professional indemnity insurance, current and covering your NDIS work.
NDIS Worker Orientation Module
The free 'Quality, Safety and You' module from the NDIS Commission — a one-off certificate.
These are the compliance wallet. You put them in once, and the same records feed the in-app expiry warnings, the family portal's credential badges and this checklist. The warning escalates as the date gets closer rather than saying the same thing for three months.
12 you adopt from a template
Complaints management policy
How anyone can raise a concern with you, and how you'll handle it.
Incident management policy
What you do when something goes wrong, or nearly does, during a support.
Risk management policy
How you spot and plan for risks before they become incidents.
NDIS Code of Conduct policy
The one that binds you whether you register or not, and what it means day to day.
Privacy and information handling policy
What you collect about people, who you share it with, and how you keep it safe.
Safeguarding policy
Spotting abuse, neglect and exploitation, and what you do about it.
Participant rights, choice and consent policy
Keeping the decisions about someone's life with them, including the risky ones.
Work health and safety policy
Keeping yourself safe, including manual handling and working alone.
Emergency and disaster management policy
What happens to the people you support in a fire, flood, heatwave or outbreak.
Continuity of supports policy
Who covers when you're sick or away, and how a service ends properly.
Record keeping and retention policy
What you write down, how you correct it, and how long you keep it.
Infection prevention and control policy
Not carrying infection between the households you work in.
Written for a sole trader rather than an organisation, adopted in a click, and yours to edit. A policy nobody has looked at in a year is flagged for review rather than quietly counted as done, and when we improve a template you are told what changed and shown the exact words. Your copy stays as you wrote it unless you choose otherwise.
The practice account, graded right now
2 held, 1 needing renewal soon, 14 missing — 12% of the way there.
That is a support worker who has never opened this screen — which is the point. It names the 14 that are missing and what to do about each one. Open the demo and it will grade the same account in front of you; sign in and it grades yours instead.
What registering costs today
Two separate bills, and only one of them is avoidable.
The consultant
$2,500 to $7,000
To get you ready — gathering documents, writing policies, and telling you what the auditor will want. This is the bill CareReady Registration is aimed at.
The auditor
$900 to $1,800
For the verification itself. You pay this directly, with or without us — no software can remove it, and anyone implying otherwise is selling you something. Verification comes around every 3 years.
The readiness pack is intended at $299 to $499, one off, and only if you choose to register. That price is illustrative — nothing charges it yet, and it is not part of the $49 a month, which stays the same whether you register or never do.
Registration is not compulsory for most independent workers today. Plenty of people work unregistered with self-managed and plan-managed participants for their whole career, and this product exists for the ones who want the option, not to talk anybody into it.
What's real today
The checklist is real. The shop around it is not.
Real today
- The readiness check. All 17 items, graded held, renew-soon or missing, out of your own records, with the next step written on each one.
- The policy templates. 12 written for a sole trader rather than an organisation, plus 3 more for the work not everybody does, adopted and edited inside the app. When we improve one, you are told what changed and shown it. Your copy never changes unless you say so.
- The evidence pack. Exports as a PDF you can hand an auditor, built from the same records rather than reassembled by hand.
Not built yet
- The paid pack. Nothing charges $299 to $499, or anything else. The readiness check is simply in the app today.
- The partner auditor. There is no referral arrangement. You find and pay your own auditor.
- Registering you. CareReady does not lodge your application, and we are not an NDIS-registered provider or endorsed by the Commission ourselves. We get the evidence in order; the application and the audit are yours.
Everything a worker can use is built. What is missing is the part that would make us money from it, which is the right way round for that list to be uneven.
Try it first
Open it before you believe it.
The readiness screen opens inside the worker app, sidebar and all, because that is where it lives — it grades the account you are in. You will see all 17 items with their current status, the policy templates ready to adopt, and the button that exports the evidence pack.
It is grading a practice account belonging to a support worker who does not exist. The documents, the expiry dates and the participants behind them are all invented.
It opens straight into the working product. Nothing to install, nothing to undo.