29138 - 02QGT

Closes: 14 June 2026

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 on Anna.McLeod@act.gov.au or (02) 5124 2712

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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.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
• 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.

For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”

Note: This position is part-time at (29.40) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

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.

The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory's history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics.

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This position is part-time at (29.40) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

Career interest categories:

Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services