About the Organisation
Empowering people with disability to live life the way they choose is at the heart of how Life Without Barriers has operated for over 25 years. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and continue this mission. Support people with disability to have the choice, control, and independence to live their best life. If you’re passionate about inclusivity, respect, and making a meaningful difference, this is the career move for you.
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.
About the Role
We are seeking enthusiastic, dedicated and patient people to support our clients in living their best lives, across both our Rocherlea Community Centre and Supported Independent Living teams. Our clients enjoy being active, so that means playing footy and getting in the pool for a swim. They also enjoy listening to music, watching DVDs, gaming and spending time with their pets. They require support to meet their everyday needs, including communication, household duties, health-related issues, community access, personal hygiene, and behavioural support.
Our clients enjoy being active and are best supported by workers who possess a naturally calm and mature demeanour, are highly physically fit, and have experience supporting people with complex behaviours, medication needs, and mental health challenges. You will also be responsible for completing mandatory reporting and administrative duties.
Joining our Supported Independent Living (SIL) team, you will support people with disability in shared housing or in their own homes, providing various supports, including personal care and daily living assistance. You can expect to work across a 24/7 roster, including sleepover shifts.
Key Responsibilities
Skills & Experience
Successful candidates will be required to undertake probity checks including a National Criminal History Record Check, Tasmanian Working with Vulnerable People Registration and hold NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.
Benefits
How to Apply
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. 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. For any other enquiries, contact Kristina Kubel at recruitment@lwb.org.au
Applications close at midnight on Sunday, 28th June 2026.
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.
