Join us as a key member of the Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks in Preschools Service Team, part of the Northern Sydney Local Health District Child, Youth, and Family Community Health Service. You’ll work alongside experienced colleagues, playing an essential role in delivering the NSW First 2000 Days Policy to support preschool-aged children and their families in early childhood education settings.

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time Roles available until 30 June 2026 (with possibility of ongoing employment)
Position Classification: Speech Pathologist (Level 3)
Remuneration: $2,154.06 - $2,223.86 per week
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ538001
Who we are: We are a health service that touches thousands of lives across the Northern Sydney Local Health District, together as a team of like-minded people. We are passionate, driven and have the skills and knowledge to care for our patients whilst creating the best services possible. Our teams have meaningful, interesting and rewarding work everyday. We challenge and nurture each other, sharing our knowledge and experience so that we can deliver better care for everyone There’s a real sense of belonging here because we value and respect our patients, employees, and teams’ voices. You’ll feel a real privilege being a trusted caregiver in our patients, their families, their carers, and our communities’ lives.

NSLHD is proud of our diverse and inclusive workplaces, a place where health care professionals can thrive and feel they belong. We are committed to ensure that all our people feel respected and participate safely within a work environment without aggression, sexual harassment, discrimination and racism.
Where you'll be working
Royal North Shore Community Health Centre as part of the Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks Team

What you'll be doing
The Senior Speech Pathologist (SP) works both autonomously and collaboratively as part of the interdisciplinary Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks (BBHDC) Preschool Team, providing child-focused health and development screening, assessment and brief interventions for preschool age-children attending Early Childhood Education (ECE) centres across the Northern Sydney Region. The BBHDC program is a collaboration between NSW Health, the NSW Department of Early Education and preschools and aims to identify children’s health and development support needs and enhance their access to early intervention services before they start primary school.

This senior SP role manages a client caseload and holds specialist expertise and advanced practice skills in infant and child communication and language skill development during the first 2000 days of life. They apply this high-level knowledge when conducting complex SP assessments in ECE settings. The SP works in partnership with parent/carers, assisting them to understand their children’s speech, language and communication skills in the early years, which supports their lifelong speech and language development, learning potential and their social participation outcomes before they start school. They work in partnership with families to help build family and care giver capacity to support their children’s development and to develop effective recommendations and care plans for children from diverse backgrounds, including vulnerable families. The role also facilitates referrals and supports families to access children's SP and other health services and ensures safe clinical handover. They also apply high level interpersonal communication skills to actively contribute to interdisciplinary team case reviews and children’s care coordination meetings/ conferences. They provide clinical education and supervision for students.

As part of the BBHDC Team the role assists with developing resources suitable for children from diverse backgrounds and offers advice to ECE staff to promote optimal communication and social participation skill for children’s development.

The BBHD Team is part of the Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Community Health Service. The overall service philosophy of care revolves around working in partnership with families, providing child-centred, safe, culturally sensitive, trauma and evidence-informed, neurodiversity affirming and integrated care that optimises lifelong health, development, learning, wellbeing and social participation outcomes for children and families.



People of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background are encouraged to apply.
Candidates will need to meet the following criteria: