These positions are ideal for experienced Child and Family Health Nurses looking for challenging and rewarding work with children whose family have more complex psychosocial vulnerabilities and needs.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Specialist (Grade 2)
Remuneration: $2,170.30 - $2,241.60 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ586786
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.

The Child and Family Health Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS2) works as part of the NSLHD Child and Family Health Secondary Level Service within the community-health based, multidisciplinary Child and Family Health Service. The CFH Secondary Level Service is an early intervention service for children whose family have more complex psychosocial vulnerabilities and needs.
The CNS2 applies specialist clinical knowledge to undertake comprehensive, child and development checks and parent/carer assessments using a family partnership approach to develop child and family centred goals and interventions which address complex health, development, and psychosocial needs. The service is provided, in families’ homes. virtually, or in-centre from the antenatal period to when children go to school.
The role provides clinical leadership, acting as a professional role-model and mentor for other CFH nurses, multidisciplinary service colleagues and students. The CNS2 will also contribute to complex service issues including clinical practice and patient safety reviews, and quality improvement initiatives designed to enhance client outcomes, in collaboration with their Sector NUM and broader CFH service.