Community Welfare@UWS

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community welfare @ uws?

Studying at the University of Western Sydney in Community Welfare brings to life the possibilities of a career in

  • local;
  • national and international community work; and
  • social development.

The range of job opportunities for community welfare graduates include

  • casework and case management, group work, community development, project work and managing community organisations;
  • youth work;
  • working in the many different roles available within the human services sector; and
  • developing social policies and research initiatives that lead to improvements in the quality of people’s lives and the vitality of their communities.

Areas of work in the human services sector include working in government departments and agencies such as

Young people meeting with Social Worker
  • Community Services NSW (CS) (opens in a new window);
  • Aged, Disability & Home Care (ADHC) (opens in a new window);
  • Corrective Services (opens in a new window) NSW;
  • NSW Juvenile Justice;
  • NSW Department of Health;
  • Housing NSW; and
  • Communities NSW (Communities) (opens in a new window) 

The non government human services sector employs graduates in a range of community based, culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) community agencies, children’s, families, youth, aged services addressing the needs of people representing every group of Australian society.

Employment opportunities are diverse as you will see from the comments from some of our recent graduates and research students.

Find out what's involved in working as a graduate with human service industry partners like Community Services (opens in a new window) and take a look at jobs.nsw (opens in a new window)for other government agencies that are keen to employ Community Welfare degree holders.

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Community Welfare staff

School of Social Science lecturers and a vibrant group of sessional staff bring their welfare sector practice experience directly into the classroom.