carecareers

The carecareers job site has launched a state-wide advertising blitz aimed at encouraging NSW residents to consider a career in the community care sector.

The award winning carecareers job site is about to go national as the disability and care sector defies the job market trend with thousands of new jobs.

Carecareers have engaged JXT Consulting to further grow online candidate attraction by incorporating their best practice job board technology.

Research commissioned by carecareers has revealed that more than half of Australian workers (52%) have considered changing careers in the past five years.

Employment is booming in the disability and community care sector with an estimated 400 new workers needed in the Illawarra region, and up to 10,000 new workers needed statewide, to provide support for more than 380,000 people in NSW by 2017.

The increasing demands of an ageing population and a rise in the number of individuals accessing disability services are driving a jobs boom in the disability and community care workforce in NSW, with up to 10,000 new workers needed by 2017.

The National Disability Services & Aboriginal Jobs Together partnership initiative announces a project to support the placement of 155 Aboriginal Trainees and Cadets with individual pre-employment and vocational training.

The community care and disability sector currently employs more than 26,000 people in New South Wales alone, making it one of the largest industries in Australia, and employers are expecting to recruit a further 40,000 people in the next five years.

A selection of Australia's industry leaders have signed on as ambassadors to lend their support to the carecareers initiative, projectABLE.

Every Australian Counts is the campaign for the introduction of a National Disability Insurance Scheme. According to the campaign, the NDIS would revolutionise the way people with a disability, their families and carers are supported in Australia.