Use your Child & Family Health expertise to improve child safety, strengthen families and create lasting community impact.

The Role

Restore Intensive Family Services (IFS) is a voluntary, child‑centred and family‑focused program that supports families with children from unborn to 18 years of age who are experiencing multiple and complex challenges. Using a restorative, strengths‑based approach, RESTORE works alongside families to improve child safety, increase parenting capacity, strengthen family functioning, and enhance connections to community, cultural and support networks.

As a Clinical Nurse, you will provide health expertise within a multidisciplinary team, delivering outreach support directly in family homes and community settings. You will assess health, developmental and well‑being needs, provide health education and therapeutic interventions, and support families to reconnect with health and community services.

This role plays a critical part in identifying health and developmental factors that may impact child safety and well‑being, while advocating for families and helping them navigate complex health systems, including primary health, specialist services, disability supports and the NDIS where relevant.

Key Responsibilities

- Conduct comprehensive health, developmental and well‑being assessments for children and families, identifying needs that impact child safety and family functioning.
- Deliver outreach‑based nursing interventions, health education and therapeutic support that build health literacy and strengthen parenting capacity.
- Support families to access and navigate health, medical, developmental and disability services through referrals, advocacy and practical assistance.




- Provide clinical expertise within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to case planning, risk assessment and child protection outcomes.
- Deliver culturally safe, trauma‑informed and family‑centred practice while maintaining accurate documentation and contributing to continuous service improvement.

See attached position description for full details.

Essential Requirements

- Registered or eligible for registration as a Nurse by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and who holds, or is eligible to hold, a current practicing certificate.
- Postgraduate qualification in Child and Family Health or extensive experience.
- Current Driver’s Licence.
- Valid Department of Human Services (DHS) Working with Children Check.
- Knowledge of Child Protection Legislation.

Desirable Requirements

- Experience working with vulnerable families with complex family dynamics or needs.
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary setting.
- Sound theoretical knowledge of the impact of childhood trauma and factors affecting development and attachment.
- Previous experience in coaching peers or delivering capability building programmes within level of experience and training is highly regarded.

Special Conditions

- May be required to work flexibly to provide some services outside of business hours.




- Work environment varies between office and external locations to meet with key stakeholders, allied health teams and family home visits.

Benefits

- Ongoing, part‑time (0.6–0.8 FTE).
- Above award rate of pay + super.
- Generous salary packaging to help increase your take‑home pay.
- Access to clinical supervision with the RESTORE Nurse Consultant.
- A unique community‑based role where you can create meaningful change and support better outcomes for children and families every day.
- Working as part of a multi‑disciplinary team.
- Ongoing training and career development opportunities.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

About Centacare

Each year, we support more than 20,000 people across metropolitan and regional South Australia through a wide range of community services, guided by a robust ethical framework. We are committed to a client‑focused approach, delivering effective and flexible support to people of all ages, backgrounds, abilities, cultures, religions, gender identities and sexual orientations.

Centacare is a Child Safe, Quality Accredited Organisation and a registered NDIS provider. We value individuality and embrace diversity, working in consultation and collaboration while upholding integrity and professionalism in everything we do.

We are dedicated to fostering a respectful and inclusive workplace, free from harassment and discrimination. Our commitment to equal opportunity reflects our mission, vision and values—and we believe that our positive culture leads to better outcomes for our clients.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Applicants from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

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