The Royal Children's Hospital

Workforce Lead, Aged Care. Permanent Full Time - Newcastle

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Job Description

About the Organisation

Enhance the lives of older Australians by joining the Life Without Barriers team. Guided by every client’s individual needs and interests, our personalised in-home Aged Care services focus on empowering every person to maintain their home comforts, health, and connections within their community.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers. Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

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.

About the Role

As part of a team of Workforce Leads, you will provide supervision, guidance, and support to our front-line Aged Care workforce to ensure quality service delivery to our clients. We are seeking an organised and proactive individual who can take initiative and solve problems effectively. You will work closely with our Rostering, Care and Recruitment teams to establish a strong workforce and ensure the best care for our clients.

This is a Permanent Full Time position with a hybrid working model, where the successful candidate will be able to work from home and our Newcastle office.

Key Responsibilities

  • Partner with our Care Coordination, Rostering & Recruitment teams to ensure our workforce needs are met
  • Provide supervision and support to team members
  • Ensure Support Workers are adequately trained and equipped to perform their duties
  • Maintain and develop positive and professional working relationships with key stakeholders and partners

Skills & Experience

  • Strong coordination, leadership and peer support skills
  • Established problem solving and conflict management skills
  • Confidence in utilising a variety of technology including mobile devices and computers
  • Ability to effectively build relationships with diverse stakeholders
  • Ability to multi-task and work autonomously in a fast-paced environment
  • Current Australian driver’s licence

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and complete an Aged Care Statutory Declaration.

Benefits

  • Thorough induction program
  • Career pathways across a national organisation
  • Hybrid working opportunity where you can work some of your days each week from home
  • Receive up to $15,900 of your annual salary tax-free through Salary Packaging, increasing your take-home pay
  • Access to Fitness Passport – workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a choice of gyms and pools across your area

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries, please contact Kristina Kubel 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, the 15th of July 2026.

The Royal Children's Hospital

About The Royal Children's Hospital

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.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Parkville, AU
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
org.au
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