Health care and social assistance is the largest employing industry in Australia with almost 1.4 million workers accounting for 12 per cent of the workforce, according to a recent jobs report. Two of the top five occupations in this industry are community work-related, with 124,300 aged and disabled carers and 83,300 nursing support and personal care workers. Read More...
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Message to ACWA members on the Australian College of Community and Disability Practitioners
ACWA Inc - Monday, July 13, 2015
Dear members, some of you who are also members of the ASU will recently have received notification from the union of your free membership of the Australian College of Community and Disability Practitioners. The college has been set up by the union to ‘empower community and disability practitioners in establishing standards of practice for work in the social, community and disability services sector’ and is intended to eventually be governed by a board of academics or members of the Skills Council, employer representatives, and practitioners. The chair will be a union appointment. Read More...
It's time to update our definition of community worker
ACWA Inc - Monday, July 06, 2015
How do you describe your job to others? It's time to update our definition of community worker Read More...
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