Pregnancy Family Conferencing Program Coordinator
Perinatal Family Conferencing (PFC) is a cross-agency model that uses family conferencing with an independent facilitator to promote early engagement and interagency planning with pregnant women and families at risk of their newborns entering out of home care at birth.
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until 2 January 2026 (with possibility of ongoing employment)
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 4
Remuneration: $59.28 - $60.72 per hour
Hours Per Week: 24
Requisition ID: REQ532046
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.
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What you'll be doing
The PFC Coordinator is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the program including:
- Coordinate, allocate and oversee all PFC program referrals
- Develop and maintain a group of appropriately skilled facilitators
- Undertake the facilitation role to a number of PFC referrals
- Work closely with key stakeholders to foster strong interagency partnerships and further develop the program
- Ongoing development, implementation and evaluation of the program
- Tertiary qualifications in Social Work and eligibility for the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) and post graduate experience at a minimum of level 2 or above
- Demonstrated extensive experience, knowledge and high level skills in the provision of child protection work and relevant legislation; management of child protection cases; provision of child protection consultation to clinicians/ caseworkers and skills and experience in provision of staff education.
- Demonstrated leadership in effective communication through the use of information technology, written, verbal and interpersonal skills with the ability to identify key messages, issues and concerns when communicating with others
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For role related queries or questions contact Juanita Tiernan on Juanita.Tiernan@health.nsw.gov.au or 0460 432 596.
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 (Page 11). 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.
