Are you a dedicated practitioner eager to make a lasting impact? This is your chance to empower young mothers as they build their futures and strengthen their support networks.
Join an exciting initiative where you'll provide onsite guidance for four young families living in a shared complex, helping them develop essential skills, boost their confidence, and cultivate independence. Your role is pivotal in providing them with the tools and resources for both them and their children to thrive.
Role location: Yarrabilba
Role type: Permanent, part-time (20 hours per week)
Pay range: $53.43 to $55.85 per hour based on experience, with salary packaging exempt from Fringe Benefits Tax available
As the Jinndii Waijung House Coordinator, you'll foster strong relationships with the four young families in the shared complex, offering both individual support and collective opportunities for growth.
Working closely with the YFS Step by Step team, you’ll help young families define their goals and ambitions, creating tailored strategies that enable them to thrive. Your "do what it takes" approach will ensure they receive the guidance they need to flourish.
Aside from meeting the key capabilities outlined in the related role description available from the role description below, the ideal person for this role will be innovative, creative, flexible, culturally aware and inclusive in their practice.
You’ll be a great fit if:
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Interested?
Apply with your resume and a one-page covering letter outlining what you will bring to the job.
People from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds and people from culturally diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Contact Amy Blair on 07 3826 1500 if you want to talk about the role.
Closing date: Monday 21st September 2026 at 12pm
Interviews are scheduled for Thursday 24th September 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.
