What is Risk-assessed role?

The three types of risk-assessed role

1. Key personnel roles: anyone responsible for executive decisions or with authority or significant influence over planning, directing or controlling the provider's activities, such as the CEO, directors listed with ASIC, executive staff, managers and board members.
2. Direct delivery roles: roles whose normal duties include directly delivering specified supports or services to a person with disability.
3. More than incidental contact: roles likely to require more than incidental contact with people with disability, such as physically touching a person, building rapport as an ordinary part of the job, or contact with multiple people with disability in a specialist support or specialist disability accommodation setting. Contact can be face-to-face, oral, written or electronic.

The written record

Registered providers must keep a written record of their risk-assessed roles that includes:

• The title of the role
• Which paragraph or paragraphs of the definition it falls under
• A description of the role
• The date it was assessed as a risk-assessed role
• The name and title of the person who made the assessment

Update the record within 20 business days of identifying a new risk-assessed role or reclassifying an existing one. Keep worker screening records for seven years.

Clearances and renewals

A worker screening clearance is valid for up to five years and can be renewed from 90 days before it expires. Some states and territories let a worker start in a risk-assessed role after applying but before receiving the outcome. If yours does, you need a written risk management plan and the worker must be supervised at all times by someone with a clearance.

How Rostery helps

Rostery records each worker's screening clearance and qualifications with their expiry dates, warns before they lapse, and blocks rostering a worker into a shift once a required clearance has expired.