Early Family Support Service - Counsellor
Part-time Permanent
Classification: Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $111,639 - $120,057 up to $126,060 on achieving a personal upgrade plus superannuation
Position No: 29138 - 02QGT
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 05 June 2026
Contact Officer: Anna McLeod onAnna.McLeod@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 2712
What can we offer you:
* Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
* Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
* Flexible working conditions.
* Access to Employee Assistance Program.
About the Role: This is a rewarding and exciting position within a vibrant service that is suitable for a dynamic, flexible, and skilled Social Worker who is committed to the delivery of high quality, trauma informed and holistic care, to women, children, young people, and families.
Health professionals in the Early Family Support Counselling Team within the Early Family Support Service provide counselling and psychosocial support to parents from the antenatal period and at any time until the child is five years of age. This counselling and psychosocial support is provided for issues relating to birth trauma, attachment, adjustment to parenting, child development and behaviour, and relating to the impact of past interpersonal or developmental trauma on parenting.
Health Professionals within the Team collaborate with the Nursing Team to provide collaborative, integrated care through case consultation and joint home visiting as needed. Health Professionals also participate in the delivery of training and education programs to CHS staff and external stakeholders and consumers.
Under limited direction of the Team Clinical Lead, you will provide high level, skilled clinical assessment, psychoeducation, systems work, navigation and therapeutic interventions for women, children, young people, and/or families where there is increased risk of poor health or developmental outcomes due to an intersection of complex health and psychosocial needs.
Note: Selection may be based on application and referee reports only.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
* Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy
* Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.
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Note: This position is part-time at (29.40) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
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