Build Your Own Care Business, Powered by Support Network
Partner with Support Network to grow your care business — referrals matched to your services and location, plus access to our support worker network.
Build trusted relationships, create meaningful opportunities and grow a portfolio of your own, with the workforce, systems and operational infrastructure of an established national disability and aged-care platform behind you.
Focus on growing relationships and supporting clients.
We'll take care of the technology, workforce, compliance, payroll, administration and operations.
- Australia-wide
- Flexible and independent
- Disability and aged care
- Relationship-led opportunity
Build Something of Your Own Without Building Everything From Scratch
Do you have strong relationships across disability support, aged care or community services?
Are you passionate about creating better client outcomes and interested in developing a geographic territory, industry niche or relationship portfolio of your own?
Support Network's Care Business Partner Program is being developed for experienced, self-motivated professionals who want to identify participant, provider, workforce and partnership opportunities while drawing on the infrastructure of an established national platform.
As a Care Business Partner, your focus will be on building trusted relationships, recognising genuine needs and creating sustainable opportunities.
Support Network will provide the systems, workforce and operational support required to help turn suitable opportunities into quality services.
What you will do
Your Focus
Care Business Partners focus on relationships, growth and quality opportunities across the care sector.
Build trusted relationships across disability and aged care
Develop connections with participants, families and care organisations
Identify participant, provider, workforce and collaboration opportunities
Establish and strengthen local referral pathways
Introduce suitable opportunities to Support Network
Support effective handovers from introduction to service delivery
Develop a geographic territory, industry niche or relationship portfolio
Represent Support Network professionally and ethically
This is an active partnership pathway for people who want to build and grow a meaningful care-sector portfolio.
Who you may work with
Build a Network That Creates Better Outcomes
Participants and families
Support Coordinators
Plan Managers
SIL providers
SDA providers
Aged-care organisations
Allied health providers
Community organisations
Workforce and recruitment partners
Strategic and referral partners
Every portfolio will look different. Some Care Business Partners may focus on a specific region, while others may develop a specialist network across a particular service, provider group or industry niche.
What Support Network provides
The Infrastructure Behind Your Growth
You focus on identifying needs, developing relationships and creating opportunities. Support Network provides the operational foundation behind service delivery.
National Platform
An established disability and aged-care platform operating across Australia.
Workforce Access
Support-worker recruitment and access to a growing national workforce.
Onboarding and Compliance
Established worker onboarding, screening and compliance systems.
Worker Management
Operational support for coordinating and managing workers.
Payroll and Administration
Systems and support for payroll, invoicing and administration.
Technology
Platform infrastructure that supports client, worker and service management.
Marketing Resources
Professional collateral, campaign support and partnership resources.
Operational Support
Support from an experienced team across recruitment, compliance, service delivery and administration.
You grow the opportunity. We support what happens next.
Who this opportunity suits
Could This Be Your Next Move?
The Care Business Partner Program may suit experienced professionals who understand the care sector and know how to build trusted relationships.
You May Be a Strong Fit If You:
Which Partnership Pathway Is Right for You?
Current pathway
Care Business Partner
Best for professionals who want to:
- Actively build relationships
- Develop a region, niche or portfolio
- Generate ongoing opportunities
- Remain involved through the relationship-development process
- Build a longer-term partnership with Support Network
Lower commitment
Referral Partner
- Make occasional warm introductions
- Refer opportunities when they arise
- Avoid managing an ongoing portfolio
- Participate in a more flexible, opportunity-based way
How it works
From Expression of Interest to Partnership
- 1 Express Your Interest Tell us about your experience, relationships, region and areas of interest.
- 2 Meet the Support Network Team We'll explore your background, goals and preferred partnership model.
- 3 Identify Your Focus Define the region, industry niche, audience or relationship portfolio you want to develop.
- 4 Complete Partnership Setup Work through the appropriate onboarding, expectations, systems and commercial arrangements.
- 5 Start Building Opportunities Begin developing relationships and introducing suitable opportunities with Support Network behind you.
Express Your Interest
Meet the Support Network Team
Identify Your Focus
Complete Partnership Setup
Start Building Opportunities
Every partnership will be assessed individually to ensure alignment, quality and the right fit for all parties.
Why Build With Support Network?
Support Network connects participants, families, support workers and care organisations across Australia.
Our model is designed to create more flexibility, choice and access across disability and aged care while reducing the operational burden involved in sourcing, onboarding and managing a quality workforce.
The Care Business Partner opportunity allows experienced professionals to focus on what they do best:
- Building relationships
- Understanding local needs
- Identifying opportunities
- Supporting clients and providers
- Creating stronger referral pathways
Our team supports the systems, workforce, compliance, payroll, administration and operations behind delivery.
Build something meaningful, backed by a team that knows how to deliver.
Frequently asked questions
No. This page is for an independent partnership opportunity rather than a traditional employee role. The final structure, expectations and commercial arrangements will be discussed during the assessment process.
Relevant sector experience, trusted relationships and a strong understanding of participant or provider needs will be highly valuable.
Yes. Some partners may focus on a local territory, while others may build a portfolio around a service category, professional network or industry niche.
Potentially, depending on your current role, availability, conflicts of interest and any professional obligations.
Support may include access to Support Network's workforce, recruitment, compliance, worker management, payroll, administration, technology, marketing resources and operational team.
Support Network manages the core workforce, compliance, payroll and operational systems. The Care Business Partner's primary focus is relationship development and opportunity growth.
Commercial arrangements will be discussed directly with suitable applicants and may vary depending on the proposed partnership model, portfolio and level of involvement.
Care Business Partners actively build and manage an ongoing relationship portfolio. Referral Partners generally make warm introductions when suitable opportunities arise without managing a complete portfolio.
Yes. Support Network is seeking expressions of interest from suitable professionals across Australia.
Tell Us About Yourself
We'd like to understand your industry experience, the relationships or regions you know and what you would like to build with Support Network.
Build Something of Your Own
Without Building Everything Alone
Use your relationships, sector knowledge and commercial drive to build meaningful care opportunities with the infrastructure of Support Network behind you.
Let’s figure it out together
No pressure. No confusion. Just clear, kind guidance — one step at a time.