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Closes: 22 August 2025
Classification: Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $109,543 - $117,878 (up to $123,772 on achieving a personal upgrade) plus superannuation
Position No: 62482-02NHD
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 24 July 2025
Contact Officer: Velissa Aplin on [email protected] or 0404 923 624
What can we offer you:
About the Role:
The Psychosocial Support Service is a newly established service that provides trauma-informed information and support for children, young people and their families with gender concerns and variations in sex characteristics (VSC), also known as differences in sex development or intersex variations.
The Unit is committed to working with children, young people and families to provide a high standard of professional treatment and care. This includes protecting the rights of people with a VSC under the Variation in Sex Characteristics (Restricted Medical Treatment) Act 2023 (VSC Act 2023).
As a Social Worker you will work with a multidisciplinary team, including psychosocial staff, relevant medical specialists, and other members of the care team, to provide individual consultations for clients with variations in sex characteristics. As a social worker you will provide psychosocial assessments and interventions for children, young people and their families with gender concerns and variations in sex characteristics. This may include supporting families to understand a child or young person’s treatment options so they can make fully informed decisions about potential interventions. In some cases, the role may extend to supporting a young person to make a decision about treatment, including statutory requirements under the VSC Act 2023. The position will involve significant liaison with peer support agencies, schools, specialist networks, statutory authorities, and other ACT Government bodies.
The Social Worker will report to the Care Coordinator of the VSC Psychosocial Unit. Please note, this reporting line may be subject to change. Professionally, the position holder will be responsible to the Director of Allied Health, Women, Youth and Children (WYC) Division and supported by the discipline Profession Lead.
For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.
Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:
Note: This is a Part-time position (14.70), and the salary noted above will be paid pro-rata.
For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”
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.
Feel free to contact [email protected] / 1800 630 124.
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