Full-time max term contract until 31 December 2026 (with potential for extension)
Opportunity to work for one of Australia’s largest social purpose organisations
Attractive remuneration package including Tool of Trade vehicle and fuel card
Access to salary packaging benefits to increase your take-home pay
Monthly RDO available
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.
We are seeking an experienced Child & Family Practitioner to join our Cairns team on a full-time max term contract until 31 December 2026, with the potential for extension
The Child & Family Practitioner provides support and supervision to children and young people placed in family-based care arrangements, ensuring they receive safe, stable and nurturing care.
The successful candidate will work collaboratively with foster carers, children and young people, families, government agencies and other stakeholders to develop and support individualised care plans while ensuring the required standards of care are maintained.
This role is ideal for an experienced practitioner with a background in child protection and/or the foster care sector who is passionate about achieving positive outcomes for children and young people.
Based from our Cairns office, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful difference within the out-of-home care sector.
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including a National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For general role enquiries contact Joelene via recruitment@lwb.org.au
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 on Sunday 16/08/2026. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed as they are received. The advertisement may close prior to the listed closing date if a suitable candidate is appointed.
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.
