• Part time & casual 

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 440 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the Role

We are inviting expressions of interest from individuals to attend an information session in Hobart on careers with Life Without Barriers as a Residential Support Worker, supporting children and young people in out of home care. The session is your opportunity to meet the team and learn about what it is like to mentor and support the young people in our care. We will share with you what these roles look like day to day, and provide a broad understanding of the services we offer to children and young people.

Guided by the six principles of the CARE model, the Residential Support Worker provides direct care and mentoring of children and young people with a wide range of responsibility for day to day care, supervision, and transport within a therapeutic framework, while undertaking activities in accordance with the care plan.

Because of the life experiences and trauma histories that the children and young people in our care bring, this role must not only provide adequate safety and supervision, but must be actively engaged in building positive relationships and solving problems as part of a team.

Support Workers in this role must offer energy, safety and commitment in their work with our children and young people through genuine, caring and sensitive engagement.

Please note: we provide 24/7 support to children and young people in a residential setting and successful incumbents will be required to work weekends, sleepovers, active nights, and public holidays. We're looking for both part time and casual employees.

If this role interests you, we'd love for you to join us to explore in more detail at our information session. Possible one on one interviews will be held straight after the session. 

Successful candidates will be required to hold a current first aid certificate, and clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and hold Tasmanian Working With Vulnerable People Registration (Employment).

How to register your interest

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click 'Apply now' and follow the prompts. Candidates will be contacted directly for full details of the information session. Places will be limited.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered.