Violence Abuse & Neglect Protected Wayz Clinical Lead
This position qualifies for an annual Recruitment Incentive Package up to the value of $10,000 under the NSW Health Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme.
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time (until 31 January 2026)
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 1
Remuneration: $42.58 - $56.65 per hour + Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Location: Broken Hill NSW
This is an Identified Aboriginal Position. Applicants for this position must be of Aboriginal descent through parentage, identification as being Aboriginal and being accepted in the community as such.
- Opportunity to work on the frontline to join a truly supportive team that is empowered to provide the ultimate patient experience
- Grow your career with us with ongoing learning and development
- Get exposure to work across different areas you would not get in the big smoke!
What You'll Be Doing
- Provide expert advice and clinical leadership to support the coordination of integrated responses for children under the age of criminal responsibility who display problematic or harmful sexual behaviours as part of the Safe Wayz program.
- Lead the coordination and delivery of trauma informed and cultural safe primary prevention initiatives across the Far West LHD.
- Hold a small violence abuse and neglect clinical case load.
- Provide cultural consultation, cultural advice and cultural supervision to clinicians working with Aboriginal children, young people, adults and their families who have experienced violence, abuse and neglect across the Far West LHD.
What Is On Offer
- 5 weeks paid annual leave per year
- Salary packaging (pay less tax) and enjoy up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment
- Paid Allocated Day Off (ADO) Every Month
- Isolation & climate allowance
- Fitness Passport
- A comfortable country lifestyle that supports balance & wellbeing
About The Far West LHD
The Far West Local Health District is one of 15 LHDs under NSW Health, providing high quality public health services to the communities in far west NSW.
How To Apply
- Recognised tertiary qualifications in health, welfare, Aboriginal Mental Health, behavioural sciences, or Advance Diploma of Aboriginal Specialist Trauma Counsellor and/or Cert IV in Aboriginal Family Wellbeing and Violence Prevention Work and relevant equivalent work experience.
- Demonstrated ability to create Aboriginal community connections, engagement and collaboration to affect outcomes with an understanding of intergenerational trauma, contextual and causal factors for violence, abuse and neglect and the principles of cultural safety.
- Demonstrated understanding and skills in child centred, family focussed counselling, support and case management to address problematic or harmful sexual behaviours with young children and their carers.
- Demonstrated ability to provide culturally responsive and trauma informed counselling services to individuals and their families, which are of high quality and in line with policy guidelines and directives.
- Demonstrated understanding of the legal and policy framework governing child protection in NSW.
- Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills in combination with a demonstrated ability to work as part of a small therapeutic team.
- Demonstrated experience in the provision of specialist clinical / cultural advice, review, consultation, supervision and mentorship and cultural supervision and professional education.
- Valid unrestricted drivers licence for use in NSW/Australia and willingness to travel in the course of employment.
Applications Close: 9th October 2025
At Far West 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.
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📌 Violence Abuse & Neglect Safe Wayz Clinical Lead
🏢 NSW Health
📍 Broken Hill