Child Wellbeing Co-ordinator

Child Wellbeing Co-ordinator - Site Negotiable within Southern NSW Local Health District

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Employment Type: Temporary Part Time - 30 August 2025 to 15 November 2025

Location: Site Negotiable within SNSWLHD

Position Classification: Social Worker Level 5

Remuneration: $ $57.50 per hour

Hours Per Week: 19

Requisition ID: REQ600847

Applications Close: 6 September 2025

Interview Details: Scheduled within 10 days of closing

Southern NSW Local Health District covers a large area of the southern half of NSW. Surrounding the ACT on three sides and the Victorian border, it extends from the NSW South Coast to the Snowy Mountains. We have 18 facilities and our hospitals care for more than 200,000 people. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, LGBTIQ+ people, and others who bring diverse experiences and perspectives to our workforce.

What We Offer

• Flexible work arrangements
• Salary Packaging – up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing
• Corporate Health and Fitness program
• 12% Superannuation on top of your gross income
• Annual Leave Loading

What You'll Be Doing

The SNSWLHD Child Wellbeing Coordinator leads, develops and manages the improvement of systems to support LHD services in fulfilling their responsibilities to recognise and respond to child safety, welfare and wellbeing concerns, including responsibilities around sharing information within and outside the LHD.

This role has a high level clinical focus and also includes education and systems improvement responsibilities. The SNSWLHD Child Wellbeing Coordinator assists in the development, delivery and evaluation of education and training programs for LHD staff that build capacity of staff to respond to the needs of vulnerable children and their families in the context of the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people. This role is one of the lead Child Protection educators in the LHD.

Selection Criteria

• Current Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Psychologist OR relevant tertiary qualifications in Social Work or counselling with eligibility to the respective Australian professional association.
• Demonstrated high level understanding and post-graduate clinical experience of the inter-related dynamics and effects of domestic violence, sexual assault and child protection and best practice models for clients who have experienced trauma.
• Extensive experience in providing specialist consultation to staff in the area of trauma informed service delivery settings and specialist knowledge and understanding of child protection and wellbeing principles and practices, and of relevant legislation and NSW Health policy, procedures and guidelines.
• Experience in the development, planning, implementing, delivering and evaluating training programs. This includes a commitment to quality improvement and leading the implementation of evidence based practice and trauma focused service delivery.
• Demonstrated experience in and commitment to service development, quality improvement and leading the implementation of evidence based practice.
• Extensive knowledge, clinical proficiency and ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, taking leadership in decision making. This includes performing complex and critical clinical work with a high level of professional knowledge and substantial professional judgement.
• A demonstrated ability to build partnerships with key stakeholders to optimise Health outcomes for vulnerable populations.
• Evidence of a current unrestricted driver's licence and the ability to maintain. Ability and willingness to drive/travel as the role requires, including long distances and overnight stays.

If you are an Aboriginal person and seek support in applying for a role, please visit the Stepping Up website, which has been designed to support Aboriginal job applicants in applying for positions at NSW Health. Visit: Stepping up

Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases

This is a Category A position; please read and understand NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015. All new employees must comply with the requirements outlined in this policy. OASV requirements also include proof of vaccination against influenza and are compulsory for NSW staff that enter any Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) or who work in NSW Health-owned and operated RACFs.

Australian Work Rights

Please note that to apply for this position you must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Australia or be able to independently and legally live and work in Australia by way of your own Temporary Visa. For more information, please see

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