Teacher's aides: turning behaviour support skills into year-round work

Same skills, school hours, paid work in the holidays too.

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. Unpaid school holidays are over

Move from forty paid weeks a year to a steady income that doesn't stop in January.

2. Your skills are exactly what's needed

Routine, patience and behaviour support are the hardest things to find in support work.

3. Hours that still fit the school run

Take clients who need mornings or after-school support, and be there for your own kids.

4. A much better rate

Award wages for aides versus $60.10–$73.58 an hour in funded rates, gross.

5. A practical guide

How a regional mum built a $47,060 part-time business doing this.

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 — the honest version of how this works, in plain language. It's free, and it stays free.