Career Pathways for Care & Support Sectors: Aged, Disability & Veterans' Care

Aged care and disability services make up a significant proportion of Australia’s wider care and support economy. These sectors are among Australia's fastest growing, alongside early childhood education and care and veterans’ care.

ACIL Allen has been engaged by HumanAbility to support the Career Pathways Project. The Careers Pathway Project aims to help people working in the aged, disability and veterans' care sectors to find clear and rewarding career plans. The Career Pathway project objectives are to:

clearly articulate job roles and career pathways across the care and support sector, identifying where training may need to be reviewed
identify and support new approaches to workforce development, highlighting career progression alignment and opportunities in and across aged care, disability services and veterans’ care
support the attraction of more workers to the sector
support increased worker retention and reduce attrition rates
support increased participation in training and employment, particularly from under-represented groups such as First Nations people, people with a disability, young people and men.

The project will deliver a Careers Pathway Framework and a Best Practice guide to help learners, job seekers and employers to make choices that contribute to the professionalisation of the sectors.

Further information on the project is available here.

Public submission process

Public submissions are invited from relevant stakeholders including industry associations and employers, employee representatives, education and training providers, peak bodies and government agencies.

The submission paper provides background information on the care workforce in scope for this project, including existing education, training and pathways associated with roles. The paper also highlights the key challenges and opportunities to support quality aged, disability and veterans’ care into the future. The paper outlines questions we would value your specific input into.

The paper can be accessed here.

Making a submission

Public submissions should align with the discussion questions outlined in the submission paper and emailed to pathways@acilallen.com.au.

Submissions will close 15 November.

When you make a submission, please indicate whether you consent to:

being identified in reporting as having made a submission
your submission being quoted with attribution in reporting
your submission being quoted anonymously in reporting.

Privacy and Collection Notice

ACIL Allen values and is committed to protecting your privacy. We handle your personal information in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic) (PDP Act), Public Records Act 1973 (Vic), and other applicable legislation.

ACIL Allen will not collect information that is personal or sensitive as part of the submission process. Information will be used solely for the purpose of reporting (internally and publicly) on the Pathways project. Your responses will not be disclosed to anyone outside the ACIL Allen project team.

Questions

If you have any questions, please email pathways@acilallen.com.au.