Is your passion working with children and families? Would you like to use your child and family health nursing skills and experience to support clinicians with the same passion deliver outstanding health and development outcomes? If yes then this position might interest you.

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time

Position Classification: Clinical Nurse Educator

Remuneration: $62.68 - $64.71 per hour

Hours Per Week: 30

Requisition ID: REQ694447

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

Northern Sydney Local Health District wide role with your base office at Macquarie Hospital in North Ryde

What you'll be doing

This Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) works as part of the Child Youth and Family Health (CYFH) Service Nursing Leadership Team to foster a positive organisational learning culture and workplace environment conducive to ongoing adult learning and continuous improvement, that supports a high standard of care and positive client outcomes.





The CNEs report to the NSLHD CYF Nurse Manager and works collaboratively with the CFH Nurse Unit Managers (NUMS), Clinical Nurse Consultants (CNCs), and other multidisciplinary team managers to lead, develop, co-ordinate and implement all structured learning for nurses, and at times other staff within the service.

The CNE is an experienced Registered Nurse (RN), with extensive skill, knowledge and experience in the field of Child and Family Community Health. The position is responsible for coordinating, facilitating, and teaching clinical skill and mandatory training programs, utilising various adult learning strategies.

The position mentors and encourages reflective clinical practice to optimise provision of safe, high-quality, trauma-informed, and outcome-oriented care. The CNE facilitates, teaches and evaluates group and individual education programs to support CFH nurses to integrate evidence-based, clinical knowledge and skills into their practice.

The position works with the NUMs to support orientation. They teach, support and mentor recent practitioners to promote confidence and capability. The position also undertakes comprehensive clinical practice assessments to identify individual practitioner learning needs and provide more tailored clinical skills teaching and professional practice development coaching for individual staff who need extra support to meet the required standards of practice.

The CNE coordinates student clinical placement requirements in consultation with NUMs. The CNE is required to apply their knowledge of adult learning principles to develop new education resources and deliver education programs to support implementation of new models of care, in consultation with managers and CNCs.





The position is expected to travel to child and family health centres and education facilities across NSLHD to support staff development in their workplace.

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

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

1. Holds AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse and holds post registration qualifications in adult education, or working towards same, and/or equivalent demonstrated experience deemed appropriate by the employer for a Child and Family Health CNE position. Current NSW unrestricted drivers’ licence and willingness to use for work purposes.
2. Demonstrated ability to apply adult learning principles to identify education needs for individuals and groups and to plan and deliver education programs to address these, using various modalities, instructional methods, facilitation and individual feedback.
3. Demonstrated excellent clinical knowledge and ability to practice safe and effective child and family nursing care, in line with relevant NSW Health policies, clinical practice guidelines and professional standards of practice.

Need more information?
- Click here for the Position Description
- Find out more about applying for this position For role related queries or questions contact Margaret Hayes on [email protected]

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 (Page 11). 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.

NSW Health is committed to implementing the Child Safe Standards.

The team enriching health in millions of ways every day.

Applications Close: 29 September 2026

Tentative Interview Dates: 9 October 2026

📌 Child and Family Health, Clinical Nurse Educator (Australia)
🏢 NSW Health
📍 Australia