You know how to look after people. You just want hours that belong to you.
If that's you, here it is straight: what the work actually involves, what it pays, what it costs to set up, and how to start — from someone running the same business, part-time, in regional Tasmania.
1. Use your discipline somewhere calmer
Everyday support isn't clinical work — no medications, no dressings, no clinical decisions, and that's the point.
2. The funded rate beats most hospital shifts
Everyday support bills at $60.10–$73.58 an hour through NDIS or self-managed funding, gross.
3. Hours that fit a life
School drop-offs, family commitments, or simply not working nights any more.
4. Almost no overhead
No medical equipment, no clinical compliance, no consulting rooms.
5. Clear legal footing
Exactly what you can and can't do as an unregistered sole trader, and how to stay on the right side of it.
Where to go next
Being straight with you. The hourly figures on this page are the billing rates from the official NDIS Pricing Schedule — the most that can be charged for that support. They're gross revenue, not take-home. Insurance, tax, super, travel and your own time all come out of it. And the income examples are Cathy's real numbers, not a promise about yours.
The free training is below — it's the honest version of how this works, in plain language, with nothing to buy at the end.