Clinical Nurse Educator - Aboriginal Child & Family Health - Perm FT
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- Clinical Nurse Educator
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- REQ571798 Requisition #
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- 1 day ago Post Date
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, 38 hours per week
Location: Narellan Community Health Centre
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Educator
Remuneration: $109,684.57 - $113,243.15 per annum
Requisition ID: REQ571798
Application Close Date: 11/05/2025
Interview Date Range: 14/05/2025 – 21/05/2025
Contact Details: Katherine Deveney – 0439 305 253 | KatherineDeveney@health.nsw.gov.au
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About the Opportunity
South Western Sydney Local Health District is looking for a Clinical Nurse Educator for our Aboriginal Child and Family Health Service.
Make a real impact by supporting families, growing your leadership skills, and working alongside a passionate, culturally led team.
This full-time role offers the chance to work closely with community and leadership to help close the healthcare gap.
If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for – we’d love to hear from you.
What Makes This Role Unique?
- Be part of a culturally-led program that offers a unique perspective into Aboriginal community needs, aligned with the SWSLHD Aboriginal Health Plan to close the healthcare gap.
- Learn directly from Aboriginal Health staff, clients, and community, including insights into rich culture, language, social and emotional wellbeing, and the 8 Aboriginal ways of communicating.
- Engage with a strong network of interagency and stakeholder relationships that wrap services around families to achieve positive outcomes.
- Enjoy opportunities for cultural engagement, community interaction, and building strong links between service and families.
What You'll Be Doing?
The Child and Family Health Clinical Nurse Educator for the Aboriginal Child and Family Service works in consultation with Managers, Child and Family Nurses, Aboriginal Health Workers and Allied Health staff to support the delivery of clinical best practice, culturally responsive patient service and enhanced patient outcomes through orientation, mentoring of new and existing staff, provision of education and undertaking of competency assessments.
All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model, promoting a culture that supports practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviours and interactions with patients, clients and employees.
The vision of SWSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Service is Compassionate Nursing and Midwifery Care Always, through leading effective workplace cultures that improve the patient experience.
Where You'll Be Working
SWSLHD Primary & Community Health provides a comprehensive range of community-based services designed to improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities across South Western Sydney.
These services include prevention, early intervention, assessment, acute and post-acute treatment, health maintenance, and continuing care. The team supports diverse populations, offering specialised programs for children, young people, older adults, and at-risk communities.
With over 800 dedicated staff, including Aboriginal Health Workers, nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals, the service ensures high-quality care close to where people live.
The focus on community health and wellbeing makes SWSLHD Primary & Community Health an ideal place to work, providing opportunities for professional growth and the chance to make a meaningful impact on the community.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA), as well as a post graduate qualification in Child and Family Health Nursing. Successfully completed or working towards a tertiary qualification with units indicating a focus on the provision of education and/or clinical training or a current technical qualification in workplace training and assessment.
- Demonstrated understanding of competency-based assessment with experience in education / clinical teaching and developing clinical programs based on adult learning principles
- Experience working with Aboriginal and/ or Torres Strait Islander people and an understanding of the various issues that impact individuals and communities and how they relate to the ongoing impacts of colonisation.
- Demonstrated understanding of Aboriginal Health Service models and the roles of the multidisciplinary teams have to effectively deliver these as best practice services, as well as Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of evidenced based multidisciplinary care for Aboriginal communities.
- Demonstrated ability to provide a culturally competent, safe and compassionate quality care within an Aboriginal cultural context.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with Aboriginal people and other stakeholders including patients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary district wide health care team inclusive of Aboriginal Health Workers and Allied Health staff.
- Demonstrated capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and personally resolve conflicts when they arise
- Demonstrated understanding and participation in risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace
- Applicants must possess an Australian C-Class driver's license (including P1 or P2). Those who hold a C class license (P1 or P2 included) from a state other than NSW must obtain a NSW C class (P1 or P2 included) license within three months of appointment. Learner's licenses are not permitted.
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ⚫️ 🟡 🔴 background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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