Senior Social Worker, Brighter Beginnings Child and Family Health Team

Seeking a highly experienced Senior Social Worker, with extensive child and family counselling and casework skills, to join our interdisciplinary Brighter Beginnings Child and Family Community Health. You'll have the opportunity to support families with preschool-age children to optimise their capacity to promote their children's health, wellbeing, development, and lifelong potential.
If you enjoy systemic advocacy, providing professional Social Work leadership and seek a role founded on the principles of social-justice, inclusivity, family-partnership, and strengths-based approaches this role would be ideal for you.

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until 30 June 2026 (with possibility of ongoing employment)
Position Classification: Social Worker (Level 4)
Remuneration: $2,331.57 - $2,388.09 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ564177

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
North Shore Community Health Centre is the base - Travel to other centers across NSLHD will be required

What you'll be doing
The Senior Social Worker (SW) works both autonomously and collaboratively within the interdisciplinary Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks (BBHDC) Preschool Team, which offers health and development checks for preschool age-children attending Early Childhood Education centres across the Northen Sydney region. This collaborative program between NSW Health and the NSW Department of Early Education, aims to identify health and development support needs, and facilitate access to early intervention before children start school. The SW may need to attend preschools to assist with parent engagement and health screening. This Senior SW role coordinates care and support for families, with young children, experiencing psychosocial stressors, which may be impacting their child’s health and development. Referrals flow primarily from BBHDC screening. The role provides consultation to other clinicians and applies high-level skills to engage with families and children to conduct complex needs assessments incorporating family systems and relationships and psychosocial needs. The Senior SW undertakes solution-focused casework, offers psychoeducation and parent-child attachment and interaction focused interventions and brief family relationships counselling. The role may facilitate child-development focused parent education groups for families from diverse backgrounds. The role contributes to person-centred and goal-oriented care planning and facilitates family care reviews/case conferences as needed, advocates, facilitates referrals and supports families to access services and ensures safe clinical handover. The SW also provides clinical supervision for junior social workers and education for students. The position also holds professional leadership responsibility for all social workers within the CYF service. This includes coordinating professional, practice development opportunities and reflective practice supervision to enhance capacity to work effectively with vulnerable families and young children using an evidenced-based, early intervention framework. The role works closely with the Manager CYF Services and as part of the CYF clinical leadership team, to design and deliver integrated, interdisciplinary care systems. CYF services partner with families to provide child-centred, culturally sensitive, trauma and evidence-informed, neurodiversity affirming and integrated health care - to optimise lifelong health, learning, wellbeing and social participation outcomes for children from diverse backgrounds.

People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria: