MacKillop Family Services Pay Rates 2026: Support Worker & SCHADS Pay

MacKillop Family Services is a Victorian and New South Wales Catholic not-for-profit providing out-of-home care, foster and kinship care, family support, disability and specialist education services for children and young people. Its workforce includes residential and community care workers, family support workers, caseworkers and, in its specialist education programs, teaching staff.

MacKillop's care and support roles are covered by the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (SCHADS), where pay depends on the stream, level and pay point you're classified at; teaching staff in its education programs are covered separately under teacher-specific instruments. Where our corpus holds a current MacKillop enterprise agreement it is listed below; any agreement must leave employees better off overall than these award figures.

The federal awards relevant to MacKillop Family Services roles:

• Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (MA000100)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Mackillop Family Services Limited declared 2,240 employees — 23.2% casual and 69.1% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The SCHADS award pays by stream (social and community services, home care, disability, crisis accommodation), then classification level, then pay point — so there is no single "disability support worker rate". Our SCHADS pay rates page carries the full current pay-point matrix, verified against the Fair Work Commission's pay database, plus the sleepover, broken-shift and minimum-engagement rules that decide most disability pay disputes.

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current MacKillop Family Services agreements in our corpus (2 in total):

• Independent Schools (Teachers) Cooperative Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2025 (2) — approved September 2025, nominal expiry 31 January 2028.
• MacKillop Family Services Enterprise Agreement 2022 — approved December 2023, nominal expiry 30 June 2026.

We don't reproduce agreement dollar figures here — the agreement covering your site, state and stream is the document to read. Find your agreement, then your classification, then your pay point, and compare it with your payslip. The award tables on this page are the floor every one of these agreements must beat.

The patterns worth checking on a MacKillop Family Services payslip:

• Wrong SCHADS level or pay point for qualifications and years of service.
• Sleepover and active-night shifts paid as if they were the same thing.
• Broken shifts without the allowance, and travel between clients unpaid.
• Minimum engagements ignored on short support shifts.

Match your payslip to your classification in the agreement (or the award tables above), and price any gap with our back-pay calculator. Raise it in writing with payroll or your manager first — most underpayments are fixed at that step. Unresolved, the Fair Work Ombudsman (13 13 94) recovers underpayments at no cost, up to six years back, and your union can run the claim for you. Not sure which instrument covers you? Ask our AI advisor with your role and location.