Child and Family Health Nurse, Sustaining NSW Families
Are you interested in using your Child and Family Health nursing skills to support families as part of a nursing sustained home visiting service?
We're seeking experienced Child and Family Health nurses with a commitment to providing inclusive, trauma-informed, family partnership care to join our inter-disciplinary team of clinicians, who are passionate about early intervention and making a difference to children's development and lifelong potential.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time roles available
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $1,382.77 - $1,941.45 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ535079
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
NSLHD Child, Youth and Family Sustaining NSW Families Program (across various sites)
What you'll be doing
The Child & Family Health nurses (CFHN) offer the Sustaining NSW Families (SNF) nurse-led home visiting program for families with moderate levels of vulnerability from mid-pregnancy until their child is two years of age. The SNF Program aims to support healthy parent-child relationship development and support new parents' capacity to optimise their infant's health, well-being, physical, emotional, cognitive, communication, and social development.
The CYF SNF Program is a nurse-led multidisciplinary program offered as part of the Child and Family Health Service within the broader Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Community Health Service.
The CFH SNF nurses engage with families using a strengths-based approach, supported by a multidisciplinary allied health team. The SNF nurses offer a series of evidence-based, structured interventions that aim to foster positive parent-infant relationships, nurture parent-child attachment and optimise children’s development. The CFHN will complete the advanced practice (SNF) training course (if not prior) within 18 months of starting to support their practice in the Program.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and with a recognised post-graduate Child & Family Health Nursing (CFHN) qualification.
- Experience working with vulnerable families and a demonstrated understanding of early intervention, including the theoretical basis that underpins sustained home visiting, prevention, and community development.
- Demonstrated experience working with vulnerable families in the family partnership model, including those from diverse cultural and linguistic back grounds.
- Demonstrated effective clinical communication through the use of information technology and sound written verbal and interpersonal skills.
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For role related queries or questions contact Julie Draper on Julie.Draper@health.nsw.gov.au or 0461 356 231
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.
Applications Close: 2 December 2024
Tentative start date for interviews: 5 December 2024
