Perinatal Family Conferencing Coordinator

Employment Type:PermanentPart Time
Position Classification:Senior Psychologist, Social Worker Level 4
Remuneration:$65.03 - $70.46 per hour Plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week:24
Requisition ID:REQ704101
Location: 80 William Street, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Application Close Date: 17th November 2026

Be part of the dynamic and supportive Counselling Violence Prevention & Response team in Child Youth & Family Services. You will work with both operational and strategic staff that provide counselling and violence abuse and neglect services to children, young people and families. The position is based at Woolloomooloo with travel across the district.

Enquiries are welcome to Katrina Hurley, Manager Counselling Violence Prevention & Response at ******@health.nsw.gov.au

The Role

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is committed to improving the care provided to our patients in line with our vision of Working together to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.
Perinatal Family Conferencing (PFC) is a strengths based, trauma informed program delivered in partnership with the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) that provides an empowering structured framework for families and services to have transparent conversations about child protection issues through the use of family conferencing in the perinatal period.
The Coordinator will plan, coordinate,



and implement in-depth levels of clinical expertise and extensive specialised knowledge in order to deliver a high-quality Perinatal Family Conferencing Program to identified clients of maternity services across SESLHD consistent with NSW Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards.
This role includes responsibilities for consulting across SESLHD in the area of expertise, coordinating the program in partnership with DCJ, establishing a sustainable network of facilitators, provision of mentoring and supervision to facilitators, leadership of quality improvement initiatives, leadership in evaluation and reporting on the PFC Program, development of service improvements including ensuring cultural safety, and provision of training to facilitators ,health workers and interagency partners.

Additional Benefits

Financial perks - Salary packaging options - Up to $9K for living expenses, $2.6K meal & entertainment, Novated Leasing; and Discounted Private Health Insurance.

- Professional growth - Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning.
- Health & wellbeing - Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.

Selection Criteria





- Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award, and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) or a 4-year degree in Psychology, along with full registration with APHRA and a minimum 8 years’ experience post full registration.
- Extensive post graduate clinical experience in trauma specific service provision in violence, abuse and neglect with demonstrated ability to provide consultation within and external to the organisation.
- Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, throughout all organisational levels
- Proven ability to provide high level clinical advice and education to enhance service delivery including demonstrated capacity to provide clinical supervision around violence abuse and neglect issues, in addition to a demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, work in partnership with key stakeholders and to apply independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a complex nature.
- Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes
- Demonstrated experience in providing advice to managers on clinical service development, practice change and service redesign.
- Current NSW Drivers Licence

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