If you are a carer looking for work, there is help available to assist you update your skills, create a resume, and prepare for job interviews.

Other forms of assistance are also available to help you balance your caring role with work.

Job Services Australia

Job Services Australia providers work with job seekers to provide tailored employment assistance.

Eligible job seekers work with their provider to develop an Employment Pathway Plan, to map any training, work experience or other assistance needed to help them find sustainable work.

Find your local JSA provider.

Information and other assistance

Carers Australia

Carers Australia works in partnership with the network of state and territory carers associations and other relevant organisations, with the ultimate aim of improving the lives of carers.

For information and resources, go to Carers Australia.

Centrelink

For information on the assistance available for carers, go to the Centrelink website.

The Department of Health and Ageing

The Department of Health and Ageing website publishes a range of fact sheets providing useful information about caring for someone.

Go to Department of Health and Ageing.

FaHCSIA

The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs website provides information on the assistance available to carers.

Visit the carers pages on the FaHCSIA website.

MyTime

Provides local support for carers, including mums, dads, grandparents and anyone caring for a young child under school age with a disability or chronic medical condition.

Visit MyTime.

Veterans Home Care Program

The Veterans Home Care program is run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and helps Australia’s veterans and war widows/widowers with low care needs remain in their own homes for longer.

To find out about the services offered and eligibility, visit the Department of Veterans Affairs

Young Carers

The Young Carers website gives young carers the opportunity to access information, talk with other young carers and provides a space to just chill out.

The website focuses on young people up to 25 years of age who help care in families where someone has an illness, disability, mental health issue or who has an alcohol or other drug problem.

Go to the Young Carers website.