Respite care jobs in Greater Newcastle

Support work requested near Greater Newcastle: 19 requests within 30 km

Care requests submitted through Carevo in the last 90 days in service categories related to respite carer work, within 30 km of Greater Newcastle: the last 30 days first, nearest to Greater Newcastle 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. 10 Oct

   Family carer in Newcastle, NSW needs respite · 1 km from Greater Newcastle

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

2. 30 Sept

   Older person in Newcastle, NSW needs household help · 1 km from Greater Newcastle

   CHSP-funded · needs to start soon

3. 19 Sept

   NDIS participant in Newcastle, NSW needs personal care and social support · 1 km from Greater Newcastle

   NDIS, plan-managed · starting in the coming weeks

4. 1 Oct

   NDIS participant in a suburb near Greater Newcastle needs personal care · 2 km from Greater Newcastle

   NDIS, plan-managed

5. 15 Sept

   Family carer in a suburb near Greater Newcastle needs allied health · 14 km from Greater Newcastle

   Home Care Package / Support at Home

6. 29 Sept

   Family carer in Mayfield, NSW needs household help · 17 km from Greater Newcastle

   CHSP-funded · needs to start soon

7. 9 Oct

   NDIS participant in a suburb near Greater Newcastle needs personal care and social support · 21 km from Greater Newcastle

   NDIS, plan-managed

8. 11 Oct

   Family carer in a suburb near Greater Newcastle needs respite · 24 km from Greater Newcastle

   Home Care Package / Support at Home

9. 7 Sept

   Family carer in Newcastle, NSW needs personal care · 1 km from Greater Newcastle

   NDIS, self-managed · was planning ahead

10. 4 Sept

    Family carer in Mayfield, NSW needs personal care · 17 km from Greater Newcastle

    NDIS, plan-managed · wanted to start within weeks

11. 3 Sept

    Family carer in Mayfield, NSW needs respite · 17 km from Greater Newcastle

    NDIS, plan-managed

12. 28 Aug

    Family carer in Newcastle, NSW needs personal care and household help · 1 km from Greater Newcastle

    Home Care Package / Support at Home · wanted to start within weeks

13. 7 more related care requests near Greater Newcastle 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).

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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 30 km of Greater Newcastle is funded

Of the 18 requests that stated how the support would be paid for, 44% were funded by a Home Care Package or Support at Home, 33% were NDIS plan-managed and 11% were CHSP-funded. 7 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
   44% (8)
2. NDIS, plan-managed
   33% (6)
3. CHSP
   11% (2)
4. NDIS, self-managed
   6% (1)
5. Privately funded
   6% (1)

Share of the 18 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 30 km of Greater Newcastle

Carevo sent out 19 of these requests. A provider responded to 18 and an independent worker responded to 0. No independent worker responded to the other 19; a provider responded to 18 of those. 1 (5%) had no response from any provider or worker through Carevo. 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.

No respite carer profile on Carevo currently lists a suburb within 30 km of Greater Newcastle. Providers in the area still receive the same requests.

Providers listed in Greater Newcastle

Providers receive the same care requests you do, and some hire. A registered profile is visible to the providers listed in your area.

How it works

Carevo is not a job board with fixed listings. You register once, and the requests near you come to you.

What respite carer pay looks like

Respite carers are generally paid under the SCHADS Award home care or disability stream, with overnight and weekend work attracting additional penalty rates and allowances.

Casual employees receive a 25% loading on the ordinary rate (about $36 to $46 an hour on weekdays), with casual weekend and public holiday rates of 1.75x, 2.25x and 2.75x the ordinary rate. Figures are full-time and part-time minimums for employees; independent contractors set their own rates.

Indicative hourly rates based on the SCHADS Award (MA000100), from the Fair Work pay guide effective 1 July 2026 (Fair Work pay guides). Modern award rates are national and do not vary by state. Pay is set by each provider and can be higher under an enterprise agreement. General information only, not financial advice.

Respite care jobs near Greater Newcastle

The closest suburbs that had their own respite carer requests, nearest first.

Also nearby: The Hill, Cooks Hill, Bar Beach, Newcastle West, Newcastle East, The Junction, Hamilton East, Hamilton South.

Respite care jobs across Newcastle · Respite care jobs in New South Wales

Working for yourself

If you plan to take on participants directly rather than joining a provider team, these guides cover the practical side.

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