At Life Without Barriers, we deliver inclusive, trauma-informed services that support children, young people, families, and carers to thrive.
From foster care, family support, residential care and youth programs, we work alongside communities to create safe, supportive environments where every child and young person can reach their potential.
Join us to discover a purpose you can wrap your heart around!
Employment Type: Full-time Max-term 12 months
Location: Any where across Victoria (remote opportunity)
Benefits: Tool of Trade vehicle with fuel card
Do you thrive on building relationships, networking, and connecting with people? Are you passionate about your community and motivated by making a real difference?
We are looking for a proactive, energetic Carer Engagement Officer to help grow our network of foster carers across Victoria. This isn't a desk-bound recruitment role—it's a community-focused position where you'll be out meeting people, creating partnerships, attending events, and inspiring everyday Australians to become foster carers.
This role would suit someone with experience in:
If you're confident starting conversations, building trust, and creating opportunities, we'd love to hear from you.
As a Carer Engagement Officer, you'll be responsible for increasing community awareness of foster care and generating enquiries from prospective foster carers through proactive community engagement and relationship building.
You'll establish meaningful partnerships with local businesses, schools, sporting clubs, councils, health services, faith groups and community organisations, creating opportunities to promote foster care and inspire people to take the first step towards becoming carers.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working autonomously, thrives on building connections and is motivated by achieving meaningful outcomes.
Learn more about Life Without Barriers' services for Children, Young People & Families here: https://www.lwb.org.au/services/child-youth-and-family/
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and any relevant stated based checks.
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For general role enquiries contact zina.campbell@lwb.org.au . Please note we do not accept applications to this email.
Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.
Applications close at midnight, Sunday 11th October 2026.
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.
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.
