
Work life
Fairhaven is the largest provider of supported employment on the NSW Central Coast.
When you work with Fairhaven you’ll learn new skills, receive workplace training, and best of all – enjoy being part of a great team!
Our social enterprise, Fairhaven CoPack provides employment and real life work experience opportunities for over 100 people living with disability. We also provide supported employment opportunities in our retail Op Shopping Village.
You will need to have ‘Finding and Keeping a Job’ in your NDIS plan to be able to work with us. Even if you don’t have this in your plan yet, give us a call and we can help get you started.
If you are looking for supported employment, get in touch:
STEP 1 Speak to our Employee Relations team. Speak with Julie or Russell by calling 02 4349 5500.
STEP 2 Arrange a site tour of our Tuggerah or Point Clare facility.
STEP 3 If you are keen to work with us we will further your application. This may include a work experience trial to make sure that this is the right environment for you.
Work at Fairhaven CoPack
Located at Tuggerah, CoPack provides a broad range of packaging solutions, such as product packing and filling plus warehousing, storage and delivery of commercial customer orders.
When you work at CoPack, the types of tasks may include:
- weighing and filling of raw food products
- heat shrink wrapping
- tamper sealing
- packing products
- palletising
- using warehouse machinery and equipment.
All supported employees are provided with relevant on the job training such as workplace health and safety, manual handling, use of equipment, quality standards, hygiene and food safety.
Work at Fairhaven Op Shopping Village
Located at Point Clare, our Op Shopping Village offers a unique op-shopping experience on the NSW Central Coast. We have a plant nursery, toy shop, bookshop, vintage and antiques room, homewares and multiple fashion areas, it’s pretty much op shop heaven!
When you work at our Op Shopping Village, the types of tasks may include:
- customer service
- sorting donations
- pricing donations
- merchandising.
All supported employees are provided with relevant on the job training such as workplace health and safety, manual handling, use of equipment, quality standards, and hygiene.
Contact the team at Fairhaven today and talk to us about your needs and goals.
Call 02 4349 5500 or email hello@fairhaven.org.au




Fairhaven is a registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status with the Australian Tax Office.
ABN: 83 058 123 729. Charitable Fundraising Number: 15891.