Residential Support Worker

• $44.59p/h (Casual rate for people with relevant completed qualifications)
• $43.23p/h (Casual rate for applicants still studying relevant qualifications)
• 12% Super + Salary Sacrifice up to $15,900 a year
• Are you looking for an inclusive and diverse organisation that offers career opportunities and understands the importance of work life balance?
• Would you like to pay less tax and increase your take home pay?

Why should you start your career with Life Without Barriers as a Residential Support Worker?

There is no greater honour, no bigger privilege than partnering with children, young people, and families to positively impact their lives. At Life Without Barriers, we believe that supporting children, young people and families involved with, or at risk of being involved with, the child protection system takes passion, strength, expertise, commitment, and a relentless desire to help them grow, learn, heal, and thrive. Life Without Barriers can offer you a wealth of opportunities. In fact, we have had Operations Managers, Program Managers, Child and Family Practitioners and Case Managers who kicked off their careers with LWB as Residential Support Workers. Not only this, but a Residential Support Worker role can also be the ideal role for people who are studying and wanting to put theory into practice, or who are seeking to achieve better work/life balance all while making a difference at the same time. Residential Support work is truly what you make of it

Locations

Our Residential Care programs support children and young people across Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, & Mount Baker regions.

Training and team meetings will be held in person at our Unley office or online.

We have multiple casual positions available, however there may be opportunity to go Permanent Part-Time.

Please note: our residential services, run a 24/7 roster model and the successful candidates will be required to work weekdays, weekends, sleepovers, and public holidays.

Key Responsibilities

• Form and maintain professional, nurturing relationships with children and young people by building trust through visible interest and active engagement
• Act as an appropriate adult role model, seeking to engage young people in purposeful activities aimed at developing life skills and self-worth
• Support the involvement of family and where applicable, facilitate family visits/connection and the promotion of positive family relationships with children and young people, to suit individual needs
• Promote and encourage positive relationships with peers and other persons significant to the child/young person
• Assist the child/young person to participate as full as possible in making decisions about the activities undertaken

SA Child Youth and Family Requirements

• To received paid employment as a RSW in SA need to be willing to enrol in an approved qualification, have completed Tertiary Studies in a relevant qualification or provide evidence that you are actively enrolled in a Certificate IV in Child, Youth and Family Intervention, Youth Work, Disability, Mental Health, or higher diploma/bachelor in a relevant field.
• Unrestricted (Opens) Australian Drivers Licence (essential)
• Valid Senior First Aid Certificate and CPR Certification (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
• Safe Environments Certificate within 3 years (must be obtained prior to commencement)
• Psychological assessment for employment in a children's residential facility (must be obtained prior to commencement)
• NDIS Worker Screening Check (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
• South Australian Working with Children's Check (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)

Benefits

• Casual Opportunities with possibility of going permanent
• Multiple shifts available to promote work/life flexibility
• A fantastic, positive, and supportive team culture
• Salary packaging tax benefits, meal entertainment benefit, novated leasing and more
• Growing organisation with great career opportunities
• Ongoing training and mentorship

How to Apply

For any enquiries, contact  with the subject heading "RSW – Adelaide". Please note that we do not accept applicants to this email address, they must be submitted online.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice. Current application closing date is midnight 6th June 2025

Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.

Additional Support

Life Without Barriers offers a dedicated After-Hours Service (AHS) for all Child Youth and Family programs. AHS 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.

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, not for profit 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.  We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each individual need and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.