For over 240 years combined, Berry Street and Yooralla have been at the forefront of supporting Australians with a disability and those experiencing poverty, violence and abuse. Now, as one unified organisation, we bring together unparalleled expertise and a shared commitment to empowering individuals and families to thrive, while upholding and championing their human rights.
We believe in a future where everyone has the opportunity to live the fulfilling life they choose for themselves, free from the impacts of trauma, violence, and abuse, achieved safely and with dignity.
Your Opportunity
Targeted Care Packages (TCP) support children and young people aged 0–19 years to transition from residential or home‑based care into stable, sustainable care arrangements. These placements may include reunification, kinship care, foster care or independent/semi‑independent living. TCP provides intensive, coordinated case management to ensure decisions are guided by the best interests of the child or young person.
As a Senior Key Worker, you will play a critical leadership and practice role within the Targeted Care Packages program. You will provide contracted case management, support complex transitions, and offer formal and informal supervision to a small team of Key Workers and Support Workers.
You will work closely with children, young people, families, carers, communities and statutory partners to build safe, stable placements and positive life outcomes, while supporting a collaborative, reflective and trauma‑informed team culture
About You
We are looking for a collaborative and empathetic practitioner, you communicate clearly, build trusted relationships and advocate confidently for children, young people and families.
You will:
The Benefits
How to Apply
Applications including resume and cover letter addressing your suitability for the position to be submitted by 5pm Friday 29th of May 2026
Queries to Andy Bowmar - Senior Manager on 03 9239 1458 or Aimee Slavin - Team Leader, TCP on 03 5120 2516
We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies.
We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. You'll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process — from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact the person listed on the ad or alternatively email recruitment@berrystreet.org.au or call 9421 9392.
Berry Street Yooralla is committed to being a child safe, child friendly and child empowering organisation. In everything we do we seek to protect children. We are committed to the cultural safety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children; children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds; children with a disability; children who identify as LGBTIQA+. We aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their cultural background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, spirituality or religion.
Please Note; the successful applicant will be subject to comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a NDIS Screening Check, Working with Children Check and National and International Police check (if required) and NDIS training.
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.
