Physiotherapist, CYF Sustaining NSW Families
Join us as a key member of the Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks in Preschools Service Team, part of the Northern Sydney Local Health District Child, Youth, and Family Community Health Service. You’ll work alongside experienced colleagues, playing an essential role in delivering the NSW First 2000 Days Policy to support preschool-aged children and their families in early childhood education settings. The role is Temporary until 30 June 2026, with the possibility of ongoing employment.
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Physiotherapist Level 3
Remuneration: $56.69 - $58.52 per hour
Hours Per Week: 8
Requisition ID: REQ541936
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.
Where you'll be working
Macquarie Hospital
What you'll be doing
The Senior Physiotherapist (Physio) works collaboratively as a member of the interdisciplinary Sustaining NSW Families (SNF) Team who provide antenatal and postnatal support and intervention to vulnerable families in home and community settings, in-keeping with the NSW Health Supporting Families Early, Maternal and Child Health Home Visiting Policy. Eligible families are primarily identified in the antenatal period and intervention continues until children reach 2 years old. The Child and Family Health (CFH) nurse-led SNF team offers families, who are experiencing psychosocial stressors ongoing nurse home-visiting and structured nurse-led interventions from mid-pregnancy until their child is two years old. SNF 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 in the first 2000 days of life - to give children the best possible start to life, and before they start school.
The SNF Physio holds specialist expertise and advanced practice skills in infant early child development and working in partnership with families. They primarily offer high-level clinical consultancy, professional advice, guidance and education to nurses working directly in partnership with families enrolled in the SNF program to enhance care for children. As a senior clinician the Physio actively contributes to team case reviews and family case conferences and provides clinical education and supervision for students.
The Physio supports nurses in helping families promote their children's development to meet age-appropriate physical development and movement milestones. When complex developmental concerns arise, the Physiotherapist may occasionally accompany a nurse to conduct home-based child assessment and Physio intervention.
The role also facilitates referrals and supports families to access community or outpatient children's Physio services and develops resources suitable for children from diverse backgrounds.
The SNF Team is part of the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Community Health Service. The role reports operationally to the CYF Physiotherapy Team Leader.
Collectively our CYF service philosophy of care revolves around working in partnership with families, providing child-centred, safe, culturally sensitive, trauma and evidence-informed, neurodiversity affirming and integrated care that optimises lifelong outcomes for children and families.
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Full registration with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia. Evidence of extensive clinical experience with a minimum as a Level 2 Physiotherapist. A current and unrestricted NSW driver's licence (P2 licence acceptable)
- Demonstrated commitment to the provision of an evidence-based allied health service (assessment, team case management and discussions, intervention and referral planning) to children in the first 2000 days of life with skills in both partnership and capacity building with families, educators and other key service providers.
- Development of systems to enhance organisational/workload and prioritisation skills and the capacity/ skills to negotiate, advocate, and use independent judgement to address organisational and professional challenges.
- Experience with service evaluation and reporting as well as initiating, leading, completing, and sharing quality improvement activities.
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For role related queries or questions contact Emily Alexander on Emily.Alexander@health.nsw.gov.au
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.
