Looking for a meaningful career with flexibility and purpose?
At Life Without Barriers (LWB), we’re proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation that values work-life balance, career progression, and real impact.
As a Youth Worker, you’ll be joining a passionate team supporting children and young people in out-of-home care - helping them to heal, grow, and thrive.
Why work with us?
About the Role
As a Youth Worker, you will provide safe, nurturing, and supportive care for children and young people in our residential settings. You’ll act as a positive role model and help young people develop essential life skills and build confidence.
To provide the best possible support to the children and young people in our care, it is important that our Youth Workers demonstrate strong flexibility, with the ability to work a variety of shifts - including days, evenings, weekends, overnights, and sleepovers.
Key Responsibilities
Build safe, trusting relationships with children and young people through active engagement.
Be a positive adult role model and encourage involvement in meaningful activities.
Promote positive relationships with family members, peers, and support networks.
Support family visits and connection where appropriate.
Empower young people to actively participate in decisions about their daily lives and activities.
Locations
Our Out of Home Care services support children and young people across the following Child Safety regions:
Training and team meetings will be held at our below office locations:
About You
To be considered for paid employment as a Youth Worker in Queensland, you must:
Have completed (or be actively working toward) a relevant qualification – minimum Certificate IV Not sure if your qualification is eligible? Check: peakcare.org.au
Hold an Unrestricted Driver's Licence (essential)
Hold or be willing to obtain a valid First Aid & CPR certificate
Be committed to child safety, trauma-informed practice, and inclusion
Next Steps – What to Expect
If successful, here’s what the onboarding process looks like:
Interview – In person (one on one), Group Assessment Centre (local venue), or via Microsoft Teams
Reference Checks – Focused on working with children and young people
National Police Check – Paid for by LWB
Blue Card – Apply if you don’t already hold one
Hope & Healing Training – If successful we will set you up an account. Must be completed prior to commencement
Apply Now!
Include your resume, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Joelene at recruitment@lwb.org.au with the subject heading “YW – Logan/GC”. Please note that we do not accept applicants to this email address, they must be submitted online.
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.
About Life Without Barriers
Every day, Life Without Barriers provides support and care to children and young people, as we work collaboratively with families, carers, and communities, to ensure they have the environment they deserve to grow. With a focus on ensuring safety and respect, this is an opportunity to make a positive and meaningful difference in these young lives and help pave a brighter future.
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.
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.
