Out of Home Care Practitioner
Casual or Permanent Part-Time (Minimum 16 hours per week)
SCHCDS Level 2–3 | Shift-based, 24/7 roster
Sunshine Coast | Moreton Bay | Gympie | North Lakes & surrounds
REFOCUS is in the business of Redirecting and
Empowering Families by creating Opportunities through Culturally Unique and
responsive Services. Our work is driven by a commitment to strengthening
families, celebrating identity, and fostering resilience.
We do this by building genuine connections,
valuing emotional intelligence, and taking a ground-up approach to
understanding where support is most needed for children and families. Our
services are shaped by real-world experience and a deep respect for the communities
we serve.
Over the past 15 years, we have supported more
than 20,000 community members across the Sunshine Coast, Moreton Bay, Gympie,
and Cairns regions, delivering high-quality support across the Health,
Community, and NDIS sectors. We are powered by a dedicated team with more than
800 years of combined lived and professional experience, ensuring culturally
safe, person centered, knowledgeable, and effective care.
We are crafting a team of change-makers and we want you!
People who are crazy enough to want to change the world are
the ones to do so. If you have just the right amount of crazy, lace up your
boots and start wearing your undies on the outside (ok, maybe just lace up your
boots) and join our revolutionary new approach to healthy communities.
Make a Difference Where It Matters Most
REFOCUS is seeking compassionate, skilled Out of Home Care Practitioners to support children, young people, and families across our Out of Home Care, Family Services, Jarjums Homes, Babies Gunyah, and Choice & Connect programs.
This is an opportunity to be part of a values-led organisation delivering trauma-informed, child rights–based and culturally responsive care—with a strong commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families, and communities.
About the Role
As an Out of Home Care Practitioner, you will work directly with children and young people (0–17 years), parents, carers, and families to promote safety, wellbeing, stability, and connection.
You will:
This role reports to a Team Leader and carries no direct line management responsibility.
Our Programs
You may work across diverse and impactful programs, including:
What We’re Looking For
Essential requirements:
Checks (current or ability to obtain):
What We Offer
Our Commitment
REFOCUS is a Child Safe Organisation and is deeply committed to cultural safety, equity, inclusion, and social justice. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are strongly encouraged 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.
