• Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
  
• Position Classification: Health Clinician Level 3
  
• Remuneration: Dependent Upon Qualifications
  
• Hours Per Week: 24
  
• Requisition ID: REQ363899

This recruitment may be used to fill future positions via an eligibility list for permanent, full time, part time, temporary and casual positions.

Central Coast Local Health District is committed to strengthening and continuously improving access to culturally sensitive and safe violence abuse and neglect (VAN) services on Darkinjung country.

This role will be provided with both clinical and cultural support and will work in a culturally centred trauma informed approach across the program areas.

This role will hold small clinical load to ensure time is invested in strong community connections and providing genuine cultural consultation to ensure the cultural integrity of the care we provide for Aboriginal clients is strong.

About you

You will bring your experience and education, and be supported to grow and build your career through training, development and networks within supportive and high functioning teams. You will be committed to delivering exceptional health care and be skilled at building positive relationships and collaboration within the health system and the broader community.

You will be of Aboriginal descent through parentage, identify as being Aboriginal and accepted in the community.

You will have completed a Bachelor Degree in a health related field or completed ECAV qualification pathway – Graduate Certificate in Human and Community Services (Interpersonal Trauma).

What you'll be doing

The Aboriginal Family Clinician - CPCS provides trauma informed, culturally safe clinical interventions that work towards the recovery and ongoing safety and wellbeing of families and their children involved with the child protection system.

This position will focus on supporting children to heal from trauma and strengthening the capacity of parents so children can safely remain or return to their family. The role is supported by the Programs Manager- Family Services and the Clinical Lead - CPCS.

This position will hold a clinical case load balanced with community engagement activities and coordinating cultural consultation to support non-Aboriginal clinicians working with Aboriginal children and families to facilitate integrated and trauma informed care that is holistic and seamless.

Opportunities to engage and connect with the Aboriginal workforce state-wide and locally will be encouraged in addition to the cultural and clinical supervision, support and training provided.

This position will actively support the CPCS team to be innovative, culturally safe and evidence based to develop and deliver effective and sound interventions that operationalise the NSW Health prevention and Response to Violence, Abuse and Neglect (PARVAN) Framework, Service Standards and relevant Policy and Procedures.

We look forward to welcoming new and energetic staff and encourage you to call us to yarn or learn more about the role so we can support you through the application process.

Where you'll be working

The Central Coast has one of the largest Aboriginal populations in Australia and Central Coast Local Health District is the largest employer and healthcare provider on the Central Coast. We are committed to providing our staff with a happy, healthy and rewarding workplace. We encourage and support professional development and community engagement. With two acute hospitals, two sub-acute hospitals and eight community health centres we provide the most comprehensive medical service in the region.

As an employer we offer our staff competitive benefits such as salary packaging, a monthly day off, paid maternity and parental leave, flexible work arrangements and professional development programs.

Our district covers a diverse landscape and demographic experience, from thriving urban centres to quiet beachside villages. The Central Coast can offer you a career unlike anywhere else as we straddle the line between metropolitan and rural, giving you a truly comprehensive and unique work experience that will serve you for your whole career.

To hear from our team what it’s like to work with us, you can read their stories on our Instagram account.

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Stepping Up Website

The ‘Stepping Up’ online resource aims to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander job applicants understand how to apply for roles within NSW Health by clarifying the recruitment and onboarding process.

For more information, please visit: https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/Pages/Home.aspx

To find out more about the Central Coasts vibrant Aboriginal community, please visit: https://www.barang.org.au/about/our-story

Need more information?

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Want to know more:

• The position: Donna Curtis – Manager Violence Abuse and Neglect on 0414 192 278 or [email protected]
• Working at CCLHD: Nathan Bramston – Aboriginal Workforce Development on 0407 498 675 or [email protected]

Use the subject line: Aboriginal Family Clinician - Child Protection Counselling Service enquiry via EthicalJobs.

You are encouraged to complete applications on a week day where Technical Support is available Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm by phoning ROB Help Desk on 1300 679 367.