How To Roster a Sleepover Support

Overview

Use a sleepover support when a worker sleeps at the location and may provide support during the night. The video demonstrates the scheduling workflow.

Sleepover supports may be scheduled in a variety of scenarios, such as:

In-Home Supports
Supported Independent Living (SIL) Supports
Respite

Billing Sleepover Supports

For In-home supports, you may wish to use the relevant Charge Item Set so the correct NDIS line items are applied when billing.
For Respite (STA), use a Short Term Accommodation Charge Item Set - both presets include the per-night sleepover Charge Item. See How to Claim for Respite?.
For SIL supports, you may choose to use Direct Charges instead.

See Direct Charges for setup and charging instructions.

The form saves a sleepover of any length. Scheduling Award Alerts check it in the Suggested Support Worker table as you choose a worker, and in the Schedule Alerts report once it is rostered: SCHADS flags a sleepover shorter than eight hours, and Aged Care flags one outside eight to ten hours. A saved support is not confirmation that the award conditions are met.

Sleepovers within a package that crosses midnight

A sleepover is normally rostered as part of a package of supports that crosses midnight - for example an evening shift, the 8-hour sleepover, then a morning shift the next day.

Under the SCHADS Award (clause 25.7(f)), the worker must be rostered - or paid - for at least 4 hours of ordinary work on at least one side of the sleepover, meaning the shift entered immediately before and/or immediately after it. If a sleepover is saved without at least 4 hours of shift entered on either side, Astalty captures a SCHADS scheduling award alert. Add or extend the adjacent work where appropriate, or arrange the required payment in payroll. Pay Award Minimum Engagement does not automatically pay the four-hour sleepover-adjacent minimum.

Check the Worker's Award

SCHADS and Aged Care use different sleepover allowances and active-work rules. Review the applicable page before payroll.

Nurses and Health Professionals interpretations do not pay a passive sleepover or sleepover allowance. Roster their overnight work as active work and verify the applicable conditions. NDIS billing and employee award pay are separate calculations.