• Northern location, Wurundjeri Country
• Full-time, permanent position
• Attractive salary and full private use of a vehicle

For over 140 years, Berry Street has adapted to a changing world, and we will continue to adapt to achieve our purpose. We believe children, young people and families should be safe, thriving and hopeful. Our Vision for 2026: Together we will courageously change lives and reimagine service systems. We look forward to working with our staff, carers, partners, supporters and government, to ensure children, young people and their families can create the future they imagine for themselves.

The Opportunity

Berry Street’s Residential Care Services offers accommodation and support to children and young people who are referred through the Child Protection system across six Residential Care homes based in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne. The Senior Manager has responsibility for all homes.

Berry Street operates a mixture of General Residential Care and Therapeutic Residential Care (TRCs) homes with up to four young people at a time. Berry Street utilises the Teaching Family Model, an Evidenced-Based model of Residential Care across its TRCs with plans to implement it across all homes over the coming years.  

The Senior Manager is a member of the Northern Region Senior Management Team and as such plays an important role in providing leadership within the region, input into strategic direction and developing and nurturing partnerships.

Key Responsibilities

• The overall management and performance of the Residential Services Programs in the Northern Region
• Ensuring a high standard of care is provided to the young people
• Program Development and ensuring a quality service is delivered
• Staffing the programs, ensuring staff are trained and supported to undertake their roles
• The Senior Manager Residential Care role has up to 4 direct reports and provides supervision and review to these roles.

About You

Courage, Integrity, Respect, and Accountability by Working Together! Our values become real by what we say, how we say it, and how we behave with each other and those we support and partner with. We strive to be genuinely inclusive of all people in our work and everything we do.

The successful candidate will hold a Bachelor qualification within the Social Work, Psychology or Community Welfare or a related discipline. You will have leadership and management skills and experience, be client focused and have strong understanding of the Out of Home sector.

The Benefits

• Additional salary packaging available for meals/accommodation.
• Flexible work arrangements and generous leave conditions.
• Access to the Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Program (EAP), including access for staff members’ immediate family
• A supportive, collaborative team where fun is an important balance to the work we do
• Full private use of a vehicle

How to Apply

Applications must include a current Resume and Cover Letter.

Queries to Renaye Kelleher - Assistant Director Out of Home Care - 9450 4700

To learn more about what it is like to work as a Residential Care Worker for Berry Street, please click here.

Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Clearance and National Police Check.

Berry Street is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability are encouraged to apply.

A position description is attached.