Bilingual Mental Health Worker - Mandarin/ Cantonese speaking Nurturing Connections: Caregiver Child Relationship Program
Are you a passionate mental health clinician keen to use your bilingual skills in your role supporting parents and infants. The NSLHD Nurturing Connections Program is an exciting new Multidisciplinary service supporting caregivers experiencing mental health and other complexities build stronger relationships with their young children.
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until 30 June 2028 (with the possibility of ongoing employment)
Position Classification: Health Clinician Level 3
Remuneration: Based on Qualification
Hours Per Week: 24
Requisition ID: REQ646238
Clinical Nurse Specialist (Grade 2): $58.83 - $60.76 per hour
Clinical Psychologist: $57.30 - $69.84 per hour
Allied Health Professional (Level 3): $58.95 - $60.86 per hour
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
Nurturing Connections based at Macquarie Hospital with outreach required across the LHD.
What you'll be doing
The Nurturing Connections: Caregiver-Child Relationship Service aims to improve outcomes for children and families through evidence-based assessment and intervention for caregivers and their infants and young children. The team will work with caregivers who are pregnant or caring for a child up to age 4. The focus of intervention is on improving responsive caregiver-child relationships and the quality of family relationships; increasing strength, skills and competencies of caregivers and their children and improving caregiver capacity to manage mental health and psychosocial stressors.
Northern Sydney Local Health District supports many families from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds. Families from CALD, migrant and refugee backgrounds may face additional challenges in interacting with health and social care systems.
The Bilingual Mental Health Professional provides culturally competent mental health services to people from CALD backgrounds accessing the Nurturing Connections Service. The position will provide comprehensive culturally sensitive assessment and quality clinical intervention, facilitation of access to appropriate general health clinical services, mental health education and promotion across the lifespan. The position will provide specialist advice to other NC clinicians and the wider health service ensuring culturally responsive interventions. This position does not replace the use of interpreters.
The Multicultural Mental Health Clinician position will work within a multidisciplinary team to support parents/caregivers experiencing complex, moderate to severe mental health challenges and other parental stressors (e.g. substance use, DV, trauma, etc) where there are impacts on the parent/caregivers ability to establish an early attachment relationship with their infant/child (0-4 years).
People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and experience as per clinical discipline. Full AHPRA registration or a Social Worker eligible for membership of AASW. Allied Health Professionals will need minimum experience as a Level 2. Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 with relevant post-registration qualifications and at least 3 years’ experience working in the clinical area of their specified post-graduate qualification, or other relevant qualifications or equivalent experience. Clinical Psychologist must hold a Masters degree or higher.
- Clinical experience in a mental health settings and demonstrated experience using bilingual skills in health setting. Demonstrated understanding of mental health experiences related to families from CALD, migrant and refugee populations.
- Demonstrated ability to engage and communicate with people from diverse CALD backgrounds and with service providers across various NSW Health settings.
- Current unrestricted NSW drivers’ licence and willingness to travel across the LHD.
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For role related queries or questions contact Lee Meredith on Lee.Meredith@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.
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Applications Close: 17 March 2026
