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!
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Location: Gold Coast, QLD
Life Without Barriers delivers the Staying on Track program as part of the Queensland Government’s Making Queensland Safe plan. The program supports young people aged 10–17 transitioning from youth detention back into their families and communities, helping them build positive connections and pathways towards a successful future.
As a Program Assistant, you’ll play an important role in supporting the Program Manager and ensuring the effective delivery of services. You’ll coordinate referrals, maintain accurate client records, assist with service reviews, manage administrative tasks and provide practical support to staff and families.
You’ll also contribute to a collaborative, positive team culture while helping promote the values and purpose of Life Without Barriers.
Highly regarded: Experience in out-of-home care, youth justice, community services or working with young people and families from culturally diverse communities.
Successful candidates will be required to complete probity checks, including a National Criminal History Record Check, Queensland Blue Card Working with Children Check and LCS Check.
Please combine your resume and covering letter into one document, click Apply and follow the prompts.
For general enquiries about the role, please contact Joelene at recruitment@lwb.org.au
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 at midnight on Wednesday 4 November 2026.
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.
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.
