Career Pathways
Your skills and passion can find their perfect home across our diverse range of career pathways. At Anglicare, we offer opportunities that span every aspect of caring for our community - from direct support to the essential work that happens behind the scenes.
Whether you're drawn to frontline care, community connection, spiritual ministry, or professional services, you'll discover pathways that grow with you. Our size and scope mean endless variety and the chance to shape a rewarding, evolving career while making a meaningful impact. With mentors who genuinely want you to succeed and a values-led community that supports your journey, you can build more than just a job - you can create a career that truly matters.
Find your career path with Anglicare
Aged care
Provide care for older people living at home, in retirement living villages or residential aged care. Here, your caring nature will flourish as you connect with residents and families, making each day brighter while being supported by a team that values your dedication and expertise.
Roles: registered nurses, carers, lifestyle workers, physiotherapists and more.
Community services
Offer compassionate support through every season of life, working with children, families and those experiencing social isolation. Join a values-led community where your desire to help others creates lasting change, and where you'll find the stability and support to grow your impact across diverse, meaningful programs.
Roles: counsellors, case managers, mental health coordinators, social workers and more.
Christian ministry
Share the love of Jesus with people in hospital or those in prison. Minister to older people at home, in retirement villages or residential aged care. Express your faith authentically while serving others, surrounded by a respectful community that celebrates your calling and supports your spiritual and professional growth.
Roles: chaplains, pastoral carers and more.
Support services
Join one of the support teams that work behind the scenes to help keep Anglicare running! Your skills will enable greater impact across our organisation, with every contribution you make helping us serve more people in more ways - all while enjoying the security of an established, growing organisation.
Roles: marketing, sales, HR, finance, IT and more.
Retail
Serve your community with affordable, quality recycled clothing, toys, accessories and homewares at an Anglicare Op Shop! Connect with your local community daily while contributing to our mission, enjoying the variety and relationships that make each day different in our welcoming, purpose-driven retail environment.;
Roles: shop managers, assistants, drivers and more.
Hospitality
Is working with food your passion? Join a residential aged care home servery teams or work at a vibrant café in an Anglicare retirement village.
Café assistants, chefs, servery staff, kitchen hands and more.
Entry-level opportunities
Starting your career with us means joining a supportive community where your potential is recognised from day one. Every entry-level role comes with comprehensive orientation, mentoring support and clear pathways for advancement. Entry-level positions span all our service areas:
Community and Mission
- Family Support Worker
- Youth Support Officer
- Community Engagement Assistant
- Food and Financial Assistance Coordinator
- Chaplaincy Support Officer
Seniors Communities
- Activities Coordinator
- Administration Assistant
- Lifestyle Assistant
- Kitchen Hand/Cook
Residential Care
- Personal Carer
- Lifestyle Coordinator
- Administration Assistant
- Lifestyle Carer
- Kitchen Hand/Cook
Corporate Services
- Administrative Officer
- Customer Service Representative
- IT Support Assistant
- Communications Assistant
- Human Resources Assistant
Housing
- Tailored Support Coordinator
- Tenancy Manager
Traineeships
Our traineeship programs offer the perfect blend of hands-on experience and formal learning, giving you the skills and confidence to build a lasting career in community services. Gain a nationally recognised qualification while you work… and your course is free!
All traineeships include:
- Permanent full or part time employment with competitive wages
- Free course fees dependent on qualification, and learning materials
- On-the-job mentoring and support
- Time off for study and assessments
- Clear pathways to permanent roles upon completion
Available traineeships:
- Certificate III in Individual Support - Your gateway to aged care and disability services
- Certificate IV in Ageing Support - Specialised skills for working with older adults
- Certificate III in Commercial Cookery - Culinary skills for our residential care kitchens
- Certificate III in Community Services - Foundation skills for community support roles
- Certificate III & IV in Business - Essential business skills applicable across all departments
- Diploma of Business - Advanced business qualifications for leadership preparation
- Certificate IV in Leisure & Health - Specialised training for lifestyle and wellbeing roles
- Certificate IV in Community Services - Advanced community service skills
- Hospitality - Customer service excellence in our residential care settings
- Landscaping - Maintaining beautiful environments for our residents and communities
Student placements
We partner with universities and TAFEs across NSW to provide meaningful placement opportunities that give students authentic experience in their chosen field. Our student placement programs cover:
Social Work placements
- Family services and child protection
- Mental health and counselling
- Community development
- Aged care social work
Health and Allied Health placements
- Nursing (across residential and community settings)
- Physiotherapy and occupational therapy
- Dietetics and nutrition
- Psychology and mental health
Business and Administration placements
- Human resources
- Marketing and communications
Leadership development
Leadership essentials
At Anglicare, we believe that leadership is more than just a position—it's about action and contribution. Leadership Essentials is a 20–40-hour practical development program over 4-8 months designed to strengthen your leadership character and capabilities to lead yourself and others with clarity, confidence and purpose.
Catalyst
Catalyst is a 16-month (80 hour) leadership development pathway for leaders of leaders to grow, connect and progress. It is designed to deepen leadership faithfulness and strengthen fruitfulness, developing seven focus skills to enable delivery of the Side-by-Side strategic objectives.
Management skill development
30/30 Management Essentials
Invest 30 minutes a week in the flow of work to develop the management skills that actually matter with four focused streams aligned with our CEO priorities (Delight our Customers; Grow our Impact; Empower our People and Accelerate our Future).
Project & change management
Project & change management essentials
A hands-on 6-month journey (20 hours) through project and change management that helps you learn how to confidently plan, lead and complete projects and manage change.
Coach & grow others
Think-lead-create
Anglicare’s 4-month (20 hour) development journey to equip you to have effective coaching conversations that facilitate positive change by improving thinking.
Anglicare coaching gym
Following on from Think-Lead-Create, the Coaching Gym is a facilitated small group experience (6 monthly sessions) to strengthen our coaching muscles by tacking real on the job leadership challenges, exchange coaching best practices and continue to build coaching confidence and competence.
Help us improve lives and the future of community services, one person at a time
Know you can. Believe we will.
Inspired by the gospel of reconciliation in Jesus Christ, Anglicare's vision for reconciliation is a nation in which Australia's First Peoples are restored in dignity, respect, empowerment and opportunity.