Brighter Beginnings Preschool Checks Registered Nurse in St Leonards

Help children and their family get the right support before starting school. Join the Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks Preschool Team, part of the Northern Sydney Local Health District Child, Youth and Family Community Health Service. You’ll be a key member of an interdisciplinary team delivering developmental surveillance screening in early childhood education settings, working alongside experienced colleagues and in partnership with educators and families. It’s a collaboration between NSW Health and the NSW Department of Education, supporting the NSW First 2000 Days Framework.

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 every day. 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 ensuring 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 (RNS) Community Health Centre.

What you’ll be doing: As a Registered Nurse, you’ll be a member of the interdisciplinary Brighter Beginnings Health and Development Checks (BBHDC) Preschool Team, within the NSLHD Child, Youth and Family (CYF) Community Health Service. You’ll help deliver developmental surveillance screening for preschool-aged children in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services across Northern Sydney. BBHDC is a collaboration between NSW Health and the NSW Department of Education. Its purpose is early identification of children’s health and developmental needs before school entry. The role operates within a structured service model across pre-screening, screening, and post-screening phases, with primary responsibility for conducting screening assessments, observing developmental indicators, and contributing to outcome classification and referral pathways within their scope of practice. When required, the role works with the multidisciplinary team in group-based intervention for children identified through developmental surveillance screening. You’ll also give opportunistic guidance to families and educators on accessing Child and Family Health services in NSLHD. Practice is safe, trauma-informed, culturally responsive and evidence-based, within a model of screening, recommendation and referral.

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA.
• Demonstrated clinical knowledge and experience in Child and Family Health and/or Paediatric nursing, with an understanding of preschool-age child health and development.
• Demonstrated ability to apply clinical reasoning within scope of practice, including recognising when to seek guidance or lift.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with families and educators about developmental observations, including when views differ or concerns are sensitive.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, and to manage workload and prioritise tasks in a structured, high-volume service with minimal day-to-day supervision.
• Experience with clinical data and patient-based systems.

This is a NSW Health Category A position which requires immunisation and screening for certain diseases. The full list of requirements are outlined in the NSW Health OASV Policy. You will be required to complete the OASV Undertaking/Declaration Form and TB Assessment Tool during the recruitment process. Please upload this with your application along with any other vaccination evidence that you may have.

Applications Close: 29 October 2026. Tentative Interview Date: Thursday 19 November 2026.