Long-term Ventilation Service Coordinator in Sydney

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time

Position Classification: Health Clinician Lvl 4 including all Allied Health Classifications

Remuneration: 131585 - 134775 full-time equivalent base salary range (+12% super + 17.5% leave loading and salary packaging)

Hours Per Week: 24

Location: Westmead

Applications Close: Midnight on 1 November 2026

For role related queries or questions contact Wendy Stephen on *************@health.nsw.gov.au

The Long Term Ventilation (LTV) Service at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW) is seeking an experienced Allied Health Professional Level 4 to join our multidisciplinary Complex Care Respiratory Team. This rewarding role offers an excellent professional development and career progression opportunity while providing care coordination and support for children and young people with long-term ventilation needs and their families.

Working across inpatient, outpatient, community, and virtual care settings, you will play a key role in complex discharge planning, community integration, service navigation, and multidisciplinary care coordination, partnering with health, education, disability, and community providers to optimise outcomes for children and young people with complex healthcare needs.

This position is open to allied health professionals at 24 hours per week (3 x 8-hour shifts), worked flexibly across Monday to Friday. We are seeking a collaborative, highly organised clinician with strong communication, leadership, and care coordination skills who is passionate about family-centred care and improving the healthcare journey of children and young people requiring long-term ventilation.

This role provides the opportunity to develop advanced skills in complex care coordination, service development, multidisciplinary collaboration, and leadership within a specialist paediatric service.

What you’ll be doing:

This position coordinates the Long Term Ventilation (LTV) Services of the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network (SCHN). The role works as part of the multidisciplinary long-term ventilation care teams and includes coordination and leadership of in-patient care and complex discharge planning as well as care coordination/case management of LTV children post discharge in the community. The position is the key point of contact for families, funding providers, community agencies and relevant SCHN (CHW & SCH) staff/teams.

This position is also responsible for the overall administrative management of the LTV service in consultation with the LTV medical lead. As well as administrative, research and advocacy responsibilities, the role acts as a key resource on paediatric Long Term Ventilation services and supports, both in the hospital and in the community. The role also aims to operate at a strategic level to advocate for paediatric LTV services at a state and national level particularly with funding bodies like EnableNSW and the NDIS.

Additional Benefits (where applicable):

• Flexible work opportunities
• Salary packaging and meal entertainment benefits
• Accrued days off (ADOs)
• Fitness passport
• Employee assistance program (EAP)

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate Degree or Diploma in relevant Allied Health Discipline e.g. Occupational Therapy; Physiotherapy, Social Work & has AHPRA registration and meets the criteria for a level 4 Allied Health position
• Possess extensive clinical specialist knowledge/experience working with children/young people with complex medical conditions and/or complex disability.
• Demonstrated advanced clinical reasoning skills and application of these skills when providing a consultancy service across an Area or Network
• Ability to work autonomously and within complex multidisciplinary teams, demonstrated excellent time management and team co-ordination skills, demonstrated good leadership, communication and negotiation skills.
• Significant knowledge and experience in managing and supporting children and families in the community including a knowledge of working with local support structures including preschools/schools, and working with community funders including Enable NSW & the NDIA
• Experience developing high quality written documentation including equipment applications, business cases, funding/insurance applications and/or research proposals.
• Ability to establish and maintain ongoing supportive relationships with patients and families.
• Ability to assist and provide guidance to Service Managers in the development of clinical services &/or education activities in response to demand and/or patient needs.