Carer Assessor, Recruitment

1 week ago

Brisbane, Australia Life Without Barriers Full time

**Job no**: 505806
**Employment type**: Full Time
**Location**: Brisbane
**Categories**: Child, Youth & Family

**About the Organisation**

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.

**About the role**

The **Carer Assessor, Recruitment and Engagement Coordinator (CAREC)** plays a vital role in facilitating and completing the end-to-end recruitment and assessment process for prospective carers. This includes ensuring all assessments are conducted in line with Life Without Barriers’ standards, policies, and procedures.

This is a **full-time, maximum-term position** based at our **Milton office**, with the contract running until **30 September 2026**.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manage the end-to-end recruitment and assessment process for carer applicants
- Conduct phone interviews, home visits, and in-person meetings with applicants, their families, and referees
- Facilitate carer training sessions and support applicants through learning requirements
- Identify placement issues, training needs, and provide feedback to care teams
- Ensure assessments meet LWB’s standards, the CARE model, and relevant legislation
- Onboard and mentor new team members in carer recruitment processes
- Organise and participate in community engagement events, including carer information sessions

**About you**:

- Experience in child-focused assessments in child and family welfare settings
- Strong background in casework and a strengths-based, culturally responsive practice
- Familiarity with trauma-informed care models such as **CARE** (or ability to learn quickly)
- Excellent time management and ability to work independently or in a virtual team
- Understanding of the challenges faced by carers in out-of-home care environments
- Willingness to deliver training and identify carer learning needs

**Essential Criteria**:

- Recognised **Social Work** or **Psychology degree**, or relevant qualification with strong casework experience
- Valid driver’s licence

**Benefits**
- Access to companywide Fitness Pass
- An attractive remuneration package will be offered to the successful applicant, including a mobile phone and a laptop
- Salary packaging tax benefits, meal entertainment benefit, novated leasing and more
- Growing organisation with great career opportunities
- Monthly RDO

**How to Apply**

**Advertised**: 10 Oct 2025 E. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 26 Oct 2025 23:55 E. Australia Standard Time

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