Perinatal Family Conferencing Coordinator

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD); Sydney; On-site; AUD 81,000 - 88,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

12 allocated days off + annual leave

Salary packaging up to $9K for living,

Up to $2.6K for meals & entertainment

Novated leasing

Fitness Passport discounts

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Discounted Private Health Insurance

Job summary

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is seeking a Senior Psychologist/Social Worker to lead the Perinatal Family Conferencing Program within the Child Youth & Family Services. Based at Darlinghurst, the role involves coordinating with DCJ, delivering trauma-informed assessments, and guiding a network of facilitators across SESLHD.

You will provide mentoring, lead quality improvement initiatives, and train staff while ensuring cultural safety and strong interagency collaboration

Qualifications

• Eligibility for AASW membership or a 4-year psychology degree with APHRA registration.
• Minimum 8 years post full registration experience.
• Trauma-informed experience in violence, abuse and neglect with consultation ability.
• Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills with diverse stakeholders.
• Capability to provide high-level clinical advice and education to improve service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate and deliver the Perinatal Family Conferencing Program across SESLHD.
• Lead program development with DCJ partners and ensure cultural safety.
• Provide mentoring and supervision to facilitators and health workers.
• Drive quality improvement, evaluation and reporting for the PFC Program.
• Deliver training to facilitators and interagency partners; engage stakeholders.

Skills

Negotiation

Decision making

Advocacy

Stakeholder engagement

Clinical education

Clinical supervision

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Quality improvement

Service evaluation

Education

AASW eligibility

4-year Psychology degree with APHRA

Job description

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time

Position Classification: Senior Psychologist, Social Worker Level 4

Remuneration: $65.03 - $70.56 Per hour plus superannuation

Hours Per Week: 24

Requisition ID: REQ694962

Location: Darlinghurst Community Health Centre, Darlinghurst

Applications Close: Sunday 4 October 2026

What You’ll Be Doing

Be part of the dynamic and supportive Counselling Violence Prevention & Response team in Child Youth & Family Services. You will work with both operational and strategic staff that provide counselling and violence abuse and neglect services to children, young people ad families. The position is based at Woolloomooloo with travel across the district. Enquiries are welcome to Katrina Hurley, Manager Counselling Violence Prevention & Response at [e-mail].

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is committed to improving the care provided to our patients in line with our vision of Working together to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.

Perinatal Family Conferencing (PFC) is a strengths based, trauma informed program delivered in partnership with the Department of Communities and Justice ( DCJ) that provides an empowering structured framework for families and services to have transparent conversations about child protection issues through the use of family conferencing in the perinatal period.

The Coordinator will plan, coordinate, and implement in-depth levels of clinical expertise and extensive specialised knowledge in order to deliver a high-quality Perinatal Family Conferencing Program to identified clients of maternity services across SESLHD consistent with NSW Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards.

This role includes responsibilities for consulting across SESLHD in the area of expertise, coordinating the program in partnership with DCJ, establishing a sustainable network of facilitators, provision of mentoring and supervision to facilitators, leadership of quality improvement initiatives, leadership in evaluation and reporting on the PFC Program, development of service improvements including ensuring cultural safety, and provision of training to facilitators ,health workers and interagency partners.

Benefits

• Up to 12 allocated days off each year in addition to annual leave.
• Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
• Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
• Discounted Private Health Insurance.

Selection Criteria

• Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award, and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) or a 4-year degree in Psychology, along with full registration with APHRA and a minimum 8 years’ experience post full registration.
• Extensive post graduate clinical experience in trauma specific service provision in violence, abuse and neglect with demonstrated ability to provide consultation within and external to the organisation.
• Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, throughout all organisational levels
• Proven ability to provide high level clinical advice and education to enhance service delivery including demonstrated capacity to provide clinical supervision around violence abuse and neglect issues, in addition to a demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, work in partnership with key stakeholders and to apply independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a complex nature.
• Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes
• Demonstrated experience in providing advice to managers on clinical service development, practice change and service redesign.
• Current NSW Drivers Licence

Reasonable Adjustments

NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email [e-mail] and let us know.

Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.

Information For Applicants

• An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies
• Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
• Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description
• Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases for all positions prior to offer
• We do have an Aboriginal Workforce Team that can also provide support ([e-mail]) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website

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