Employment Type: Temporary Part Time, 20 hours per week until June 2027
Location: Rosemeadow Community Health Centre
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2
Remuneration: $57.11 - $58.98 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ598792
Application Close Date: 31/08/2025
Interview Date Range: 03/09/2025 – 10/09/2025
Contact Details: Wendy Aspery – 0427 023 668 | [email protected]
Please note: A current influenza (flu) vaccination is a mandatory requirement for appointment to this position
About the Opportunity
We are excited to invite you to join us in a unique and meaningful role supporting families with children aged 2–6 years who are awaiting medical assessments for behavioural and cognitive disorders. This opportunity allows you to make a real difference by providing guidance and care during an important stage in each family’s journey. You’ll be part of a warm, collaborative, and multidisciplinary team dedicated to helping children and their families thrive.
The ideal candidate is a dynamic, thoughtful communicator and critical thinker who thrives in a team setting while bringing compassion and professionalism to their work. This is a flexible, part-time position (20 hours per week), offering you the chance to balance your schedule while contributing to a role that is both rewarding and impactful. If you are looking for a position where your skills and passion truly matter, we’d love to hear from you!
What You'll be Doing
The position will work with the Child Development Assessment Service (CDAS) to deliver early intervention and diagnostic services for children with developmental concerns who reside in the Macarthur region. Provide clinical support for the CDAS service.
The position will coordinate the progressive implementation of an enhanced CDAS service in Macarthur. This enhancement is aimed at reducing waiting times for diagnostic services as well as improving patient flow through increased opportunity for early intervention and referral to external agencies. The Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2 will provide sage, compassionate, quality, person centered specialist care and work in collaboration with patients/families/carers and a multidisciplinary team to achieve identified goals and outcomes.
Where You'll Be Working
SWSLHD Primary & Community Health provides a comprehensive range of community-based services designed to improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities across South Western Sydney.
These services include prevention, early intervention, assessment, acute and post-acute treatment, health maintenance, and continuing care. The team supports diverse populations, offering specialised programs for children, young people, older adults, and at-risk communities.
With over 800 dedicated staff, including Aboriginal Health Workers, nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals, the service ensures high-quality care close to where people live.
The focus on community health and wellbeing makes SWSLHD Primary & Community Health an ideal place to work, providing opportunities for professional growth and the chance to make a meaningful impact on the community.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
- Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA). At least 3 years full time equivalent post registration experience and approved post graduate nursing/midwifery qualifications in a field relevant to the specialty field, or such qualifications, or experience deemed appropriate by the organisation.
- Demonstrated experience and skills in providing complex care in the relevant paediatric field.
- Demonstrated project management skills and experience and ability to deliver project.
- Demonstrated ability to provide safe compassionate quality care that is culturally responsive.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with patients/consumers, carers, and multidisciplinary health care teams to identify and ensure responsiveness of care needs.
- Demonstrated capacity to interact with others in a personable and professional manner and personally resolve conflicts when they arise.
- Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking and capacity to provide evidence based, work flow and systems focused solutions to implementing paediatric child development services.
- Demonstrated understanding and participation in risk management, work health and safety and quality improvement in the workplace.
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ️ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ️ background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people’s rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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