If you are only offering social support and domestic assistance, you do not need any formal qualifications, but you will need:

• Complete profile
• Valid police check
• Two professional or personal references

If you would like to offer personal care you will need to have the following:

• Complete profile
• Valid police check
• Two professional references
• Personal care qualification from at least one of the following:
  • Certificate 3 or 4 in Individual Support
  • Certificate 3 or 4 in Aged Care
  • Certificate 3 or 4 in Disabilities
  • Certificate 3 or 4 in Home and Community Care
  • Assistant in Nursing (AIN) Certificate
  • Working towards nursing degree (needs to have already completed first year)
  • Degree in nursing
  • Degree in Allied Health
  • Other relevant qualification
  • 2 or more years of experience

If you would like to offer nursing services you will need to have the following:

• Be a registered nurse
• Have more than 1 year of relevant nursing experience
• Have been registered as a nurse with AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency)
• Your AHPRA registration has been active for at least 12 months
• Nurses should not provide any services within these categories that their AHPRA registration does not allow them to provide.
• If you need any assistance completing your profile, please don’t hesitate to contact our registration team on 1300 73 65 73.