Health, well-being and community services will experience solid employment growth rates within Sutherland Shire, a recent study by TAFE NSW reveals.
Heathcote MP Lee Evans says this means a significant jobs boom across childcare, aged and disability care.
“Over the next three years, the state is expected to require 7000 new childcare and child education workers,” he said.
In December 2018, the government stated that many health care and social assistance jobs are on an upward trend, as Australia’s population ages and the National Disability Insurance Scheme roll-out continues.
Aged and disabled carers is one occupational group that has shown notabled increase, with employment across the past five years growing by 36.2 per cent, compared with 10.4 per cent across all occupations.
This growth equates to an extra 46,600 jobs for workers in the occupational group, the second largest rise in employment over the period of all 474 occupational groups.
Growth is expected to continue, with the largest growth in employment over the five years to May 2023 projected for aged and disabled carers (up by 69,200).
Labour market analyst Ivan Neville says that fierce employment growth in this occupational group comes hand-in-hand with demand for certain caring skills.
“The top skills that employers are requesting most in job advertisements for aged and disabled carers are first aid, communication skills, caregiving and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR),” he said.