- Strengthen the way we support children, young people and families
- Support and empower your team to work alongside direct service staff to build skills and improve practice
- Generous Employee Benefits: Access to salary packaging, Fitness Passport + More!
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 challenges, or those seeking refuge, we’re here to break down barriers and build better lives.
Join us to discover a purpose you can wrap your heart around!
Role: Practice Manager, Child, Youth and Family
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Location: Perth, WA
As the Practice Manager for our Child, Youth and Family team across Western Australia, you’ll play a key role in strengthening practice excellence, improving service quality and ensuring our services deliver the best possible outcomes for children, young people and families.
As part of the WA Leadership Team, you will work closely with operational leaders and practitioners, you’ll lead a team that provides expert practice guidance, lead quality assurance and compliance initiatives, and support the implementation of evidence informed approaches across our services. You’ll also oversee training and professional development initiatives to build workforce capability and drive monitor continuous improvement.
Learn more about Life Without Barriers services for Children, Young People and Families here: https://www.lwb.org.au/services/child-youth-and-family/
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert practice advice and guidance on complex cases across family based care and intensive therapeutic care services.
- Lead the utilisation of evidence informed practice frameworks, including CARE and TCI, to improve outcomes for children and families.
- Oversee quality assurance, compliance and continuous improvement across services, including case reviews and investigations.
- Coordinate training and professional development in collaboration with internal teams and external providers.
- Coach and mentor staff using a positive, strengths based approach to build capability and improve practice and empower your team to do the same.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships to support service development, practice improvement and culturally responsive care.
Skills and Experience
- Relevant postgraduate qualification in social work, psychology or a related human services discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Senior leadership experience in child protection, out of home care, family support or family preservation.
- Experience implementing evidence informed practice models and leading quality assurance and compliance initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience in staff coaching, mentoring, supervision, training and professional development.
- Strong communication, relationship building and leadership skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and support teams through change and challenges.
- Knowledge of relevant child, youth and family legislation, foster carer recruitment and support, and culturally responsive practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- A current and unrestricted driver’s licence
Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks, including a National Criminal History Record Check and relevant Working with Children Check requirements.
How to Apply
Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For general role enquiries, contact us via 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 on Sunday 25th October 2026, midnight AWST.
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.