Toowoomba, QLD
Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.
Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 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. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.
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.
Make a life-changing impact in your community. As our Carer Assessor, Recruitment & Engagement Coordinator, you will recruit, assess and support foster carers who provide safe, nurturing homes for children and young people.
Working closely with prospective carers, you'll guide them through the assessment process, facilitate training and help build a strong network of carers across the Toowoomba region. This is a work-from-home role, however you must be based in Toowoomba or the surrounding area to undertake home visits, assessments and community engagement activities.
This is a Permanent Full-Time opportunity offering flexibility, autonomy and the chance to make a genuine difference in the lives of children and families.
Include your resume and a cover letter in one document and click Apply to submit your application.
For confidential enquiries or to discuss workplace adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact Joelene at recruitment@lwb.org.au with the subject line:
"CA&RE Coordinator Toowoomba"
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and the position may close earlier than advertised.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
