Child and Family Health, Clinical Nurse Specialist
These positions are ideal for experienced Child and Family Health Nurses looking for challenging and rewarding work with children whose family have more complex psychosocial vulnerabilities and needs.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time and Part Time roles available
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Specialist (Grade 2)
Remuneration: $57.11 - $58.99 per hour
Hours Per Week: Up to 38
Requisition ID: REQ572445
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.
NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.
Where you'll be working
FT - North Shore Ryde CFH Team, based at Chatswood Community Health Centre.
PT - Hornsby Ku-ring-gai sector, based at the Koala Family Care Centre, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital
What you'll be doing
The Child and Family Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS2) works as part of the NSLHD Child and Family Health Secondary Level Service within the community-health based, multidisciplinary Child and Family Health Service. The CFH Secondary Level Service is an early intervention service for children whose family have more complex psychosocial vulnerabilities and needs.
The CNS2 applies specialist clinical knowledge to undertake comprehensive, child and development checks and parent/carer assessments using a family partnership approach to develop child and family centred goals and interventions which address complex health, development, and psychosocial needs. The service is provided, in families' homes. virtually, or in-centre from the antenatal period to when children go to school.
The role provides clinical leadership, acting as a professional role-model and mentor for other CFH nurses, multidisciplinary service colleagues and students. The CNS2 will also contribute to complex service issues including clinical practice and patient safety reviews, and quality improvement initiatives designed to enhance client outcomes, in collaboration with their Sector NUM and broader CFH service.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Current registration as a Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioners’ Regulation Authority (APHRA), with post-registration qualifications relevant to child and family health (CFH) nursing and at least three (3) years full time equivalent clinical experience working in a child and family community health setting or such other qualifications or relevant equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated currency and recency of practice with advanced knowledge of, and ability to apply, family- partnership, person-centred, trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and inclusive care principles in undertaking early-intervention focused child and family health nursing practice in line with relevant NSW Ministry of Health Policies.
- Demonstrated excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, engage effectively with families and communicate with multiple service stakeholders, to coordinate care.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently in a community health setting, and autonomously apply clinical reasoning to interpret complex assessment findings and making decision about client-goal oriented care plans.
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This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy . You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/ Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.
NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.
