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22 care requests a meals assistant could take on were submitted within 45 km of central Sydney in the last 90 days. Register free to see the ones still open.

Sydney and suburbs within 45 km, New South Wales

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Care requests within 45 km of central Sydney

22

requests in 90 days

9

in the last 30 days

1

meals assistant profile on Carevo in the same area

In the 90 days to 10 November 2026, people within 45 km of central Sydney submitted 22 care requests through Carevo that a meals assistant could take on. The services asked for most were meal help, household help and personal care. The suburbs with the most were Sydney (5), Balmain (1), Chipping Norton (1) and Five Dock (1). 9 of the 22 arrived in the last 30 days.

45% of these requests were sent by a family member or carer, and 36% by the person needing care. 65% asked for support to start within a week, so a quick reply counts for a lot here.

Where the requests came from

  1. Sydney
    5 requests
  2. Balmain
    1 request
  3. Chipping Norton
    1 request
  4. Five Dock
    1 request
  5. Kellyville
    1 request
  6. Kirrawee
    1 request
  7. Lidcombe
    1 request
  8. Liverpool
    1 request

A suburb is named only when it has at least three requests of any kind in the window. Distances are straight lines between suburb centres.

Counted from care requests submitted through Carevo between 13 August 2026 and 10 November 2026, in the service categories meals assistant work covers. They are enquiries from people looking for support, not advertised vacancies, and some will have been filled.

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Support work requested near Sydney: 22 requests within 45 km

Care requests submitted through Carevo in the last 90 days in service categories related to meals assistant work, within 45 km of Sydney: the last 30 days first, nearest to Sydney first among those. These are examples of recent demand, not confirmed open vacancies or evidence that each request needs this specialist role. Check the scope, credentials and current status before contacting anyone.

  1. Older person in Sydney, NSW needs meal help

    CHSP-funded · planning ahead

  2. Family carer in a suburb near Sydney needs personal care, household help and meal help · 4 km from Sydney

    Home Care Package / Support at Home

  3. Family carer in a suburb near Sydney needs social support and meal help · 7 km from Sydney

    Home Care Package / Support at Home · starting in the coming weeks

  4. NDIS participant in a suburb near Sydney needs household help, meal help and social support · 11 km from Sydney

    NDIS, plan-managed · starting in the coming weeks

  5. Family carer in St Ives, NSW needs meal help · 16 km from Sydney

    CHSP-funded · needs to start soon

  6. NDIS participant in Riverwood, NSW needs meal help · 17 km from Sydney

    NDIS, plan-managed · needs to start soon

  7. Family carer in North Parramatta, NSW needs personal care, household help and meal help · 20 km from Sydney

    privately funded · needs to start soon

  8. Support coordinator in Smithfield, NSW needs meal help · 25 km from Sydney

    Home Care Package / Support at Home · needs to start soon

  9. 14 more related care requests near Sydney in the last 90 days. Register your profile to see them in full and contact the ones that fit (contact details are shown when you choose to contact a request, and up to two workers can contact each request).

Requests are anonymised: no names, contact details or health information are stored or shown. A suburb is named only when it has at least three requests in the window; otherwise the region is shown. Who is asking and the timing are inferred from the request by Carevo's classifier, and timing is described in the past tense once a request is more than 30 days old. Regenerated from Carevo's database at each deployment. How we calculate these numbers.

How the work within 45 km of central Sydney is funded

Of the 19 requests that stated how the support would be paid for, 37% were funded by a Home Care Package or Support at Home, 32% were CHSP-funded and 16% were NDIS plan-managed. 4 were NDIS plan-managed or self-managed, the two arrangements under which a participant can choose an unregistered provider, which includes a sole trader with an ABN.

  1. Home Care Package or Support at Home
    37% (7)
  2. CHSP
    32% (6)
  3. NDIS, plan-managed
    16% (3)
  4. Privately funded
    11% (2)
  5. NDIS, self-managed
    5% (1)

Share of the 19 requests that stated a funding type. Who can deliver a support under each NDIS arrangement is set by the NDIA: ways to manage your funding.

Responses and competition within 45 km of central Sydney

20

had a provider respond

7

had an independent worker respond

0

had no response from any provider or worker

Carevo sent out 21 of these requests. A provider responded to 20 and an independent worker responded to 7. No independent worker responded to the other 14; a provider responded to 14 of those. Every one of them had at least one response. Each request goes to providers as well as workers, and up to two independent workers can contact it, so a request with no response on the day it arrives may not stay that way.

1 meals assistant profile on Carevo lists a suburb within 45 km of central Sydney. Against 22 requests in 90 days, that is about 22 requests for each profile. Profiles are self-reported and not all are active, and providers respond to the same requests.

Meal preparation jobs by suburb in Sydney

Suburbs within 45 km of central Sydney that had their own meals assistant requests in the last 90 days, busiest first. Each page shows the requests within 30 km of that suburb.

Balmain 1 Woollahra 1 Kingsford 1 Five Dock 1 North Strathfield 1 Freshwater 1 Lidcombe 1 St Ives 1 Riverwood 1 Taren Point 1 North Parramatta 1 Kirrawee 1 Chipping Norton 1 Smithfield 1 Liverpool 1 Kellyville 1 Darlinghurst Dee Why Bass Hill

The number is that suburb's own requests in the window. All meals assistant pages in New South Wales.

Every suburb within 45 km of Sydney (509 more)

How it works

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Open care requests within 30 km that match your services and funding types show on your dashboard, and each new one is emailed to you: area, needs, funding and timing.

03

You contact the ones that fit

Contact details are shown when you choose to contact a request. Up to two workers can contact each one, and providers receive the same requests, so a prompt reply helps.

Pay, checks and qualifications are the same wherever you work: meals assistant checks and credentials, meals assistant pay rates, full meals assistant pay guide.

Frequently asked questions

Does Carevo have meals assistant jobs in Sydney I can apply for?

Carevo is not a job board with fixed listings. It passes on care requests from people looking for support. In the last 90 days there were 22 within 45 km of central Sydney that a meals assistant could take on. You register your availability and credentials once, the requests that match your services, area and funding types appear on your dashboard, and you choose which to contact.

How much meals assistant work is there in Sydney?

In the 90 days to 10 November 2026, people within 45 km of central Sydney submitted 22 care requests through Carevo that a meals assistant could take on. The services asked for most were meal help, household help and personal care. The suburbs with the most were Sydney (5), Balmain (1), Chipping Norton (1) and Five Dock (1). 9 of the 22 arrived in the last 30 days.

Who pays for meals assistant work in Sydney?

Of the 19 requests that stated how the support would be paid for, 37% were funded by a Home Care Package or Support at Home, 32% were CHSP-funded and 16% were NDIS plan-managed. 4 were NDIS plan-managed or self-managed, the two arrangements under which a participant can choose an unregistered provider, which includes a sole trader with an ABN.

How many other meals assistants are in Sydney?

1 meals assistant profile on Carevo lists a suburb within 45 km of central Sydney. Against 22 requests in 90 days, that is about 22 requests for each profile. Profiles are self-reported and not all are active, and providers respond to the same requests.

Does it cost anything?

Creating a profile and seeing the requests near you is free. To contact a request you need the Support Worker Plan: $99 a month (ex GST) for up to 5 contacts a month, with a 7-day free trial. Carevo charges no commission and takes no cut of what you earn.

Other roles in Sydney

Roles that also had care requests around Sydney, busiest first.

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