Employment Type: Permanent Part Time, up to 32 hours per week
Location: Hoxton Park Community Health Centre
Position Classification: Registered Nurse
Remuneration: $36.39 - $51.09 per hour
Requisition ID: REQ585873
Application Close Date: 06/07/2025
Interview Date Range: 09/07/2025 – 16/07/2025
Contact Details: Alison Squire – 0439 292 864 | alison.holderness@health.nsw.gov.au
About the Opportunity
Love working with kids and families?
Join our Child and Family Health Nursing team at SWSLHD
We offer no night shifts, family-friendly hours, and a genuinely supportive, down-to-earth team. You'll enjoy autonomy in your role, backed by clinical supervision, debriefing, and strong support from our CNCs and CNEs. Ongoing education and professional development are a big deal here—we invest in your growth. From structured orientation to daily team connection, you'll feel valued every step. Make a real impact supporting vulnerable families in a role where you're trusted, appreciated, and encouraged to thrive. Ready to grow your career and love your job?
What You'll Be Doing
The Registered Nurse/Child and Family Health Nurse (CFHN) is responsible for the provision of safe, compassionate, quality, client centred care and work in collaboration with patients/families/carers and a multidisciplinary team to achieve identified goals and outcomes. The role involves the provision of universal services to families with children aged 0 – 5 as well as working in a S ustained Health Home Visiting (SHHV) model. The position will work collaboratively with social work to provide assessment, care coordination and education to families and take into account clinical, psychosocial and cultural needs.
The SHHV program works with vulnerable women and their families, from the antenatal period, potentially until the child is 2 years of age. This will include home visiting and practical support based on primary health care principles to promote a safe and secure environment for children. The aim is to better respond to and provide early intervention and prevention care interventions for families in need of additional support and those with complex needs. South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) is focused on achieving our Vision of Leading Care, healthier communities.
All staff are expected to act as an appropriate and effective role model, promoting a culture that supports practices that reflect the NSW Health CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment through demonstrated behaviours and interactions with patients, clients and employees. The vision of SWSLHD Nursing and Midwifery Service is Compassionate Nursing and Midwifery Care Always, through leading effective workplace cultures that improve the patient experience.
Where You'll Be Working
SWSLHD Primary & Community Health provides a comprehensive range of community-based services designed to improve and maintain the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities across South Western Sydney.
These services include prevention, early intervention, assessment, acute and post-acute treatment, health maintenance, and continuing care. The team supports diverse populations, offering specialised programs for children, young people, older adults, and at-risk communities.
With over 800 dedicated staff, including Aboriginal Health Workers, nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals, the service ensures high-quality care close to where people live.
The focus on community health and wellbeing makes SWSLHD Primary & Community Health an ideal place to work, providing opportunities for professional growth and the chance to make a meaningful impact on the community.
How to Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
1. Current Authority to Practice as a Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) & Child and Family Health nursing qualifications or commitment to undertake and complete in first 12 months, withrelevant experience.
2. Demonstrated recent experience as a Registered Nurse in an environment appropriate to the Child and Family Health Nursing Speciality.
3. Demonstrated ability to provide safe compassionate quality care that is culturally responsive.
4. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and engage with clients/consumers, carers and the multidisciplinary health care team to identify and ensure responsiveness of care needs.
5. Demonstrated evidence of the use of critical thinking as it relates to the delivery of evidenced based nursing care.
6. Applicants must possess an Australian C-Class driver's license (including P1 or P2). Those who hold a C class license (P1 or P2 included) from a state other than NSW must obtain a NSW C class (P1 or P2 included) license within three months of appointment. Learner's licenses are not permitted.
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values – Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney 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 adisability and people from theLGBTQI+community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people's rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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