National Disability Services: Maria & Gerard

In recent years, the disability and community care sector has faced significant difficulties attracting and retaining its workforce due to factors such as baby boomers retiring from the sector, fewer mothers returning to work and misconceptions about what work within the sector is like. The greatest need for staff is in frontline occupational groups such as paid care workers, occupational support workers and allied professionals such as physiotherapists and social workers. It is the misconceptions about what work within the sector is like that are preventing people from considering it as a career.The Campaign Palace Sydney has launch a moving and engaging multi-media campaign for National Disability Services of NSW aimed at addressing the serious decline in workforce capacity.