Help young people build life beyond care.
Every young person deserves the opportunity to thrive. As a Case Manager – Next Step Plus, you'll support young people transitioning from out-of-home care to develop the skills, confidence, and connections they need to live independently and achieve their goals.
Based in Toowoomba, you'll manage a caseload and deliver outreach-based, strengths-focused case management, helping young people navigate housing, education, employment, health, wellbeing and independent living.
This is a six-month maximum-term parental leave replacement with no possibility of extension. While the role has a fixed end date, other opportunities may become available within Life Without Barriers.
You'll work with young people aged 15 and over who are preparing to leave out-of-home care, as well as young adults who have already exited care.
Through individualised case management, you'll help young people establish stability, build independence and strengthen their support networks. Key responsibilities include:
The role involves regular travel throughout the service area, with opportunities to work autonomously while collaborating with a supportive team.
Why Join Us?
You'll be passionate about empowering young people and skilled at building trusting relationships. Ideally, you'll bring:
Experience supporting young people with a care experience will be highly regarded.
Include your resume and a cover letter in one document and click Apply.
For confidential enquiries or if you require adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact Joelene at recruitment@lwb.org.au, quoting Case Manager – Next Step Plus (Toowoomba).
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and the vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. The current closing date is midnight Thursday 29 October 2026.
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.
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.
