Senior Caseworker

• Competitive Salary: $113,574 - $125,720pa (plus superannuation and leave loading)

• 2 x Temporary Full Time until 30/06/2026 (possibility of extension or ongoing conversion)

• Location: Sydney CBD (regular travel within NSW may be required)

About us

Legal Aid NSW helps people with their legal problems. We can help people with most areas criminal law, family law and every day civil law legal issues. We give legal advice, help at court and do family dispute resolution. We can do this over the telephone or at one of our 28 offices.

About the role

Your Voice is a specialist team within Legal Aid NSW supporting children and young people in out-of-home care (OOHC). As a Senior Caseworker, you will collaborate with lawyers to provide short to medium-term casework to vulnerable young people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. Using a socio-legal approach, you'll help address legal and psychosocial needs, advocating for their rights and access to services and ensuring their essential needs such as; education, health, culture, and family connection are met.

About you

You're a passionate and experienced professional with a strong background in supporting children and young people, particularly those with adverse childhood experiences. You bring a trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming approach and are skilled in engaging with young people from diverse backgrounds. You bring a strong social science background and a commitment to provide clinical expertise, evidence-based practice and a child rights approach to your work.

You're collaborative by nature and thrive in interdisciplinary teams. You're ready to contribute to an innovative legal advocacy model, working alongside lawyers and service providers to support young people's legal and psychosocial wellbeing. You think creatively, communicate effectively, and understand how to identify and mobilise stakeholders in responding to unmet needs.

You will use your advanced communication skills to engage diverse audiences and contribute to training and systemic advocacy to strengthen sector capability. You'll support the development of integrated legal-psychosocial practice, deliver internal and external training, and maintain accurate records for effective case management and reporting.

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN LEGAL AID NSW

We are committed to diversity and inclusion

We are committed to creating a culturally safe and genuinely inclusive organisation and workplace for everyone who works and interacts with us. We strive to be a place where people from diverse backgrounds want to work, where voices and cultures are valued and where people feel valued, welcomed, respected and heard.

We want a workforce that reflects our clients, so we can deliver a service that meets the needs of the community. We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, the LGBTQI+ community, culturally diverse people and other diverse communities.

We acknowledge, support and accommodate the diverse access needs of people with visible and invisible disabilities. If you need an adjustment to participate in the recruitment process, or you'd like information about what we can do to help you, please contact our team at

Other benefits of working with us

• You will have access to training, development and mentoring opportunities.

• We are an accredited Flex Ready and Carers and Employers certified employer and are recognised as leaders in flexible work. Most of our staff work flexibly — for example, from home some of the time or in a way that helps them balance family and work life

• Find out more at Working at Legal Aid NSW

The essential requirements for this role

You must:

• Bachelor Social Work (4 years study) or Masters of Social Work or Bachelor Degree in Psychology or a related discipline with eligibility for professional registration

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience

• Be willing to undertake a Criminal Record Check

• Hold a current NSW Working with Children Check

• hold Australian or NZ citizenship, Australian Permanent Residency (for ongoing vacancies) or a valid visa to work in Australia (for temporary vacancies)

• Be willing to travel when required to support young people across various metro, remote and regional locations

• Experience working with children and young people

The Family Law Division have several roles where it is a statutory obligation for staff to hold a valid Working with Children Check. You will be required to provide your Working with Children Check details prior to commencement in any role requiring the check.

How to apply

You must submit your application online. Applications received late or by email, will not be accepted. Please make sure your application is complete, and that you have answered all questions before submitting.

Your application must include:

• your resume (no more than 5 pages)

• cover letter (no more than 2 pages). In your cover letter, please address the below target questions:

Target Question 1: How do you see the relationship between young people's legal issues and their overall wellbeing, and how does this impact way that you work with young people.

Target Question 2: Describe your process/a time building effective stakeholder relationships when working with children and young people who have multiple services involved in their life.

We may use this recruitment to create a talent pool for similar ongoing or temporary vacancies we have over the next 18 months.

Do you need help to apply?

It's important to properly prepare before you apply for a role. Here is some other information to help you:

• If you have questions about the role, you can contact Daniel Kennard, A/Solicitor in Charge on or via email at
• If you are an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and are thinking about applying, you can contact Legal Aid NSW Aboriginal Services Branch to arrange a confidential conversation about any questions you may have.
• The Role Description sets out the responsibilities and Focus Capabilities of the role.
• The focus capabilities and key accountabilities in the role description indicate what is expected at that level. Being familiar with these will help you understand what the panel will be looking for in the successful candidate.
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