- Competitive salary +12% Super + Salary Sacrifice up to $15,900 a year (increase your take home pay) + $2,600 entertainment card!
- Prior child, youth, and family experience essential (2-3 years)
- Rewarding role with Learning & Development opportunities and paid study days
About the Organisation
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.
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.
Join us to discover a purpose you can wrap your heart around!
Join Our Team at Life Without Barriers!
Are you a passionate leader and want to make a difference in the lives of young people? Do you have skills and compassion to manage a home that provides support and care to young people? Do you thrive in challenging yet rewarding environments?
A new opportunity has become available at Life Without Barriers for a House Manager to work within our Youth Residential Care programs in across Hobart. Reporting into the Operations Manager Residential Care, the House Manager will oversee the day-to-day operations of the residence house. Most importantly you will ensure that we are creating a safe and culturally appropriate and healing environment for children and young people. This position is being offered as Permanent Full-Time position, with access to salary packaging.
You will mentor a team of residential support workers in providing purposeful support to young people in residential care, with high and complex needs. You will strive to enhance the lives of young people in a 24/7 residential setting, incorporating a therapeutic, trauma informed approach within the daily structure and purposeful programming. There is a strong emphasis on leading your team to provide a secure base for our young people within the home, liaising with culturally appropriate services, and providing opportunities for the young people to connect with the culture in which they identify within.
Key Responsibilities
- Build professional, trusting relationships with children and young people through visible interest and active engagement.
- Ensure the home is a place that is emotionally and physically safe, nurturing, and appropriately engaging and stimulating, to foster growth and resilience.
- Assist with the development and implementation of the Departmental Case Plan (where applicable) and develop and implement the LWB Case/Care plan that drives day to day service delivery.
- Manage, support and provide reflective supervision and team meetings to a team of residential workers, and lead staff to work as a team in the best interests of children and young people.
- Support staff to apply the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention system (TCI) to prevent, de-escalate and respond to crisis incidents involving children and young people.
- Contribute to rostering of residential workers ensuring that risks are managed and staffing levels reflect the needs of children and young people living in the home.
- Coordinate the intake and transition of new children and young people into the home and the exit of children and young people to permanent homes or step-down services.
- Ensure the CIRTS database is up to date with all client information.
- Liaise with Child Safety Services to effectively advocate for the voices of the children and young people.
Skills & Experience
- Hold or actively working toward a Certificate IV in Child, Youth or Family Interventions (Residential and OOHC) or other recognised Certificate IV or higher is highly desirable
- Experience working with children and young people who have experienced trauma and disadvantage.
- Experience in the co-ordination and management of 24-hour residential services for vulnerable people.
- Demonstrated experience in managing and leading a team
- Demonstrated capacity to manage crises and critical issues and deal with complex and challenging situations.
- Current Unrestricted Australian Drivers Licence.
- First Aid and CPR Certificates (or willingness to obtain if successful).
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including strong interpersonal skills, use of Microsoft Office packages.
All positions within Life Without Barriers will be required to undergo probity checks including criminal record checks and working with Vulnerable People check.
Benefits
- An attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful applicant, including non-for-profit tax reduction options.
- Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
- Access to ongoing support and training
- Lead role in establishment of innovative Residential Care service models
Additional Support
Life Without Barriers offers a dedicated National After-Hours Service (NAHS) for all Child Youth and Family programs. NAHS 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.
How to Apply
Include your resume and cover letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries relating to the position, contact [email protected]. We will not accept emailed applications, please follow the prompts to apply.
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 midnight 13th September 2026
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications are continuously reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice.
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.
