Assistant Director Compliance/investigations

2 months ago


Canberra, Australia NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission Full time

**About the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission**
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (the NDIS Commission) is an independent

agency established on 1 July 2018 to improve the quality and safety of NDIS supports and

services. The Commission is the dedicated national regulator of NDIS service providers in

Australia and a non-corporate entity under the _Public Governance, Performance and _
- Accountability Act 2013_.

**The NDIS Commission’s core legislative functions are to**:
uphold the rights of, and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of, people with

disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the National

Disability Insurance Scheme

develop a nationally consistent approach to managing quality and safeguards for people

with disability receiving supports or services, including those received under the

National Disability Insurance Scheme

**Job**

**Reference**

**Number**

023_02/23
**Number of**

**Vacancies**
1

**Position Title**
Assistant Director
- Compliance/Investigations
**Division**

Regulatory Operations

**Classification **Executive Level 1 **Branch** Compliance and Investigations Operations

**Status **Full time Ongoing **Section** Compliance & Investigations

**Salary Range **$111,445 - $126,503 **Location **Penrith NSW or Canberra ACT

**Contact**

**Person**
Mahashini Krishna

**Contact Job**

**Title**
State Director, NSW/ACT

**Contact**

**Number**
0448 092 913

**Contact**

**Date**

**Applications**

**Open**

Thursday 16 February

2023

**Date**

**Applications**

**Close**

Thursday 2 March 2023 11:20 PM

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission 2

promote the provision of advice, information, education and training to NDIS providers

and people with disability

secure compliance with relevant legislation through effective compliance and

enforcement arrangements, including through the monitoring and investigation

functions conferred on the Commissioner by legislation

promote continuous improvement amongst NDIS providers and the delivery of

progressively higher standards of supports and services to people with disability

develop and oversee the broad policy design for a nationally consistent framework

relating to the screening of workers involved in the provision of supports and services to

people with disability

provide advice or recommendations to the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)

and its Board in relation to the performance of the Agency’s functions

engage in, promote and coordinate the sharing of information to achieve the objects of

the relevant legislation, and

provide NDIS market oversight, including:
i. by monitoring changes in the NDIS market which may indicate emerging

risk; and

ii. by monitoring and mitigating the risks of unplanned service withdrawal.

The NDIS Commission is a disability friendly organisation that offers interesting and

Commission.

**Regulatory Operations**
The Regulatory Operations Division comprises:
National Compliance Policy including Worker Screening

Provider Registration

State and Territories operations that deliver the NDIS Commission’s function

relating to reportable incidents, compliance and enforcement. This include local

engagement; building provider capability to prevent and manage incidents

affecting people with disability; and undertaking compliance and investigation

activities, and enforcement action.

**Compliance & Investigations Teams**

The Compliance & Investigations team form an integral part of the Regulatory Operations
Division. The Compliance & Investigations team is responsible for working with NDIS
providers and workers to help them comply with the quality and safeguards requirements,
through education and training about their obligations and taking regulatory action to
improve and ensure compliance. The Compliance team implements compliance and
enforcement responses where there is suspected non-compliance by providers and
workers with the NDIS Act 2013, NDIS rules and the NDIS Code of Conduct.

NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission 3

**Key duties**
- Lead compliance approaches and investigations inquiries/matters into

disability service providers, disability support workers and their response
to issues of safety, well-being and quality of support services for people
with a disability. Compliance and investigations work will be undertaken in
accordance with the
_National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cth)_,
Rules, the Commissioner’s policies and procedures, the
_Regulatory Powers _
- (Standard Provisions) Act 2014 _(Regulatory Powers Act) and relevant
Commonwealth legislative requirements.
- Work with individual providers and workers to assist them in understanding their

obligations, and where non-compliance may have occurred, guide them to address
those issues and risks.
- Where systemic issues are identified, work locally with groups of providers to

promote quality improvement strategies, and across the organisation to deve



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