Healthcare continues its lead as Australia’s biggest employer while community services helps to boost growth in job ads, according data from employment marketplace SEEK. Overall, job ads were up 16.5 per cent in April compared with 12 months ago, and ...

The aged care sector is facing a potential shortfall of 80,000 workers over the next five years. That’s one of the key findings of a new HESTA report that draws on its more than 200,000 members working in the space ...

Nurses may be able to double their income by taking on further study, with workforce shortages predicted for the near future. This conclusion was made in a new report, The Future of Work: Occupational and Education Trends in Nursing in Australia, ...

Aged-care leaders share strategies for meeting the surge in demand.  The workforce must gain about 78,000 employees in the next decade to maintain the current ratio of aged-care workers to people over the age of 85, attendees at Aged Care ...

Nurses in Queensland seeking to return to the workforce will now have access to the state’s first re-entry to practice program to reregister as a nurse. CQUniversity has launched the state’s first re-entry program for nurses seeking to return to ...

Increasing bed numbers alone would not solve the growing problems in hospitals and aged care, say groups. Nursing and other health groups have questioned the Coalition’s health policy, saying while parts have merit, it lacked a “whole system view”. Among ...