Why should you start your career with Life Without Barriers as a Residential Support Worker?
There is no greater honour, no bigger privilege than partnering with children, young people, and families to positively impact their lives. At Life Without Barriers, we believe that supporting children, young people and families involved with, or at risk of being involved with, the child protection system takes passion, strength, expertise, commitment, and a relentless desire to help them grow, learn, heal, and thrive.
Life Without Barriers can offer you a wealth of opportunities. In fact, we have had Operations Managers, Program Managers, Child and Family Practitioners and Case Managers who kicked off their careers with LWB as Residential Support Workers. Not only this, but a Residential Support Worker role can also be the ideal role for people who are studying and wanting to put theory into practice, or who are seeking to achieve better work/life balance all while making a difference at the same time. Residential Support work is truly what you make of it!
About the Role
We are currently expanding our Residential Youth Support Worker team and are recruiting in the Greater Hobart Area. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants to make a genuine difference in the lives of children and young people.
We are seeking Casual Residential Youth Support Workers to work across our 24/7 residential services, with shifts available across days, nights, weekends and sleepovers. We also Permanent Part-Time positions available on a 4-week rotating roster, averaging 66 active working hours per fortnight, plus sleepover shifts.
Permanent Part-Time roster:
You will spend most of your time in the home supporting children and young people with their daily routines, participating in recreational and community activities, and helping them develop the skills and confidence to thrive in a safe, nurturing environment.
Key Responsibilities
Skills & Experience
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Vulnerable People check
Benefits
How to Apply
For any enquiries, contact recruitment@lwb.org.au with the subject heading “RSW – Hobart”. Please note that we do not accept applicants to this email address, they must be submitted online.
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. Current application closing date is midnight 19th July 2026.
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.
Additional Support
Life Without Barriers offers a dedicated After-Hours Service (AHS) for all Child Youth and Family programs. AHS 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.
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.
