Adelaide foster care hub home provider (part-time)

Hub Home Provider. Maximum Term Part Time - Adelaide

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.

Role: Hub Home Provider
Location: Unley, SA
Employment Type: Part-time Max-term until 30 th June 2027

The purpose of a Hub Home Provider is to provide support services to satellite families participating in Life Without Barrier's Mockingbird Family Constellation.

The incumbent is key in the development of a healthy community of foster and kinship carers focused on the health, safety, growth and permanence of participating children and young people. This will include providing support to foster and kinship carers while enabling self-care that promotes healthy retention of carers.

The incumbent resides in a house that is conducive and appropriate to provide support to Satellite families participating in the constellation.

Key Responsibilities

• Organise, coordinate and host a monthly Constellation meeting at the Hub Home or another suitable venue, to include a meal, review of the Constellation calendar, other Constellation business as needed, and may include training or a guest speaker.
• Organise, coordinate and host, at a minimum, a quarterly social outing in the community for all satellite carers and children/young people.
• Host meetings at the home when possible, such as case planning meetings, care team meetings, as well as sibling and/or family visits (where appropriate).
• Record accurate information of monthly services provided, children and young people's engagement in the Constellation and foster family recruitment activities. As required, maintain additional records as required.
• As required, maintain key information for carers and client's records
• Maintain regular contact with Satellite families and children/young people, including telephone calls and communication regarding current placement issues, problem solving, identifying community resources, locating and correcting possible system errors.
• Provide help to Satellite families in developing plans for children's success in school, identifying mental health resources and accessing other community-based services.

Skills & Experience

• Meet all requirements and successfully obtain, and maintain, authorisation/registration to act as a foster carer under the relevant jurisdiction
• Significant experience as a foster/kinship carer (5 years or more preferred, or comparable experience); or employed experience in the Child Protection or Out of Home Care sector
• Possess and demonstrate the emotional energy, maturity, skills and experience to provide support to children and young people in the Constellation.
• Possess and demonstrate capacity to engage in appropriate relationship building with carers and children/young people within the context of the Hub Home Provider role.
• Current First Aid Certificate
• Current Driver's licence.
• Up to $15,900 annual salary sacrifice & $2600 annual meal & entertainment card
• Work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click 'Apply' and follow the prompts. For general role enquiries contact Zina Campbell via recruitment@lwb.org.au . Please note that we do not accept applications to this email.

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.

For any specific questions regarding the position, please contact Hanne Brunes on 0492 094 143 or hanne.brunes@lwb.org.au

Applications close at midnight Sunday 14 th June 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.

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.

Advertised: 26 May 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 14 Jun 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time