About the Role
Lead the day-to-day running of an Intensive Therapeutic Care (ITC) home in Tamworth. Provide direct support to young people, guide staff, and ensure therapeutic care, safety, and compliance.
This role includes 36 hours face-to-face support plus 2 hours administration weekly.
✨ Why You’ll Love Working With Us:
• Salary packaging up to $15,900 tax-free, plus an additional $2,650 entertainment card
• Paid training and professional development
• Opportunities for career development and growth pathways
• Access to Pool vehicles
• Supportive and values-driven team culture
• Discounts on dining, travel, and retail
🫶 What You’ll Be Doing:
• Deliver trauma-informed care aligned to case and behaviour plans
• Oversee household operations including budgets, audits, and WHS
• Lead and coach Therapeutic Youth Workers to model best practice
• Support culturally safe care and connection to community and culture
• Ensure compliance with PSP, OCG standards, and governance frameworks
💼 What You’ll Bring:
• Diploma in Community Services (or related field)
• 2+ years working with young people in OOHC or residential care
• Knowledge of PSP, 10 Essential Elements, and child protection law
• Strong leadership, decision-making, and coaching skills
• Current unrestricted driver’s license and probity clearances
✨ About Us
We are a purpose-driven organisation supporting children and young people through therapeutic, evidence-based care. Guided by our values, Inspired, Courageous, Skilful, Responsive, we foster a supportive, collaborative culture that prioritises safety, wellbeing, and positive futures.
Please note: The advertised title “House Leader” reflects the nature and level of the role. The formal employment title on the contract will be “House Manager.”
📩 How to Apply:
If you’re interested in joining us, please submit your application online. Shortlisting is ongoing, so get in early!
🌈 We Celebrate Diversity
Lifestyle Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We champion inclusion and welcome applications from people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTI communities, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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.
