Job Description

• Ongoing training support and career advancement opportunities
• Generous Employee Benefits- Access to salary packaging, Fitness Passport + More!

At Life Without Barriers, we’re all about creating safe, supportive environments where children and young people can thrive. Every day, we work closely with families, carers, and communities to help shape brighter futures.

From supporting children and families to empowering people with disability, mental health, or those seeking refuge, we’re here to break down barriers and build better lives.

Join us to discover a purpose you can wrap your heart around!

About the Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Program

LWB delivers a range of services for children, young people and their families, throughout Australia. We use Cornell University’s Children and Residential Experience (CARE) model of practice to guide our work. Through ongoing training and support we use this model of practice to equip carers and staff to support children in a way that creates conditions for positive change.

About the role

A new opportunity has become available at Life Without Barriers for a House Manager to work within our Residential Care programs in across Adelaide. Reporting into the Operations Manager Residential Care, the House Manager will oversee the day-to-day operations of the residence house.

Most importantly you will ensure that we are creating a safe and culturally appropriate and healing environment for children and young people.

This is a hands-on role with most time spent on site in the home or in the community. This position is being offered as permanent, full-time, with access to salary packaging.

You will mentor a team of youth workers in providing purposeful support to young people in residential care, with high and complex needs. You will strive to enhance the lives of young people in a 24/7 residential setting, incorporating a therapeutic, trauma informed approach within the daily structure and purposeful programming. There is a strong emphasis on leading your team to provide a secure base for our young people within the home, liaising with culturally appropriate services, and providing opportunities for the young people to connect with the culture in which they identify within.

Key Responsibilities

• Build professional, trusting relationships with children and young people through visible interest and active engagement
• Ensure the home is a place that is emotionally and physically safe, nurturing, and appropriately engaging and stimulating, to foster growth and resilience
• Assist with the development and implementation of the Departmental Case Plan (where applicable) and develop and implement the LWB Case/Care plan that drives day to day service delivery
• Manage, support and provide reflective supervision and team meetings to a team of residential workers, and lead staff to work as a team in the best interests of children and young people
• Support staff to apply the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention system (TCI) to prevent, de-escalate and respond to crisis incidents involving children and young people
• Undertake rostering of residential workers ensuring that risks are managed and staffing levels reflect the needs of children and young people living in the home
• Coordinate the intake and transition of new children and young people into the home and the exit of children and young people to permanent homes or step-down services
• Ensure the CIRTS database is up to date with all client information

Skills & Experience

• Minimum Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention or similar (essential)
• Experience working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and disadvantage
• Experience in the co-ordination and management of 24-hour residential services for vulnerable people
• Demonstrated experience in managing and leading a team
• Demonstrated capacity to manage crises and critical issues and deal with complex and challenging situations
• Current Unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence
• Provide First Aid and CPR Certificates (or willingness to obtain if successful)
• Completed Safe Environments training or willingness to complete before commencement (essential)
• Willingness to undergo psychological assessment (essential)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including strong interpersonal skills, use of Microsoft Office packages.

All positions within Life Without Barriers will be required to undergo probity checks including a Criminal Record Check, SA Working With Children Check and NDIS Worker Screening Check.

Benefits

• Generous Employee Benefits
• Access to salary packaging, Fitness Passport + More!
• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Ongoing training including CARE and TCI training within your first three months of employment

Additional Support

Life Without Barriers offers a dedicated National After-Hours Service (NAHS) for all Child Youth and Family programs. NAHS ensures efficient responses to after-hours events that cannot wait until the next business day, relieving our front-line staff from on-call duties and significantly improving their work-life balance.

How to Apply

Include your resume and cover letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries relating to the position, contact zina.cambell@lwb.org.au We will not accept emailed applications, please follow the prompts to apply.

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 midnight 6th September 2026

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications are continuously reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice.

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.