Senior Social Worker

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – GP Plus and Lyell McEwin Hospital – Elizabeth and Elizabeth Vale
• Salary: $102,641 - $110,094 p.a. (pro rata) –AHP3 - Temporary Part-Time – 22.5 hours per week, up until 30 June 2024

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit a Senior Social Worker to work in our dynamic, growing and supportive team, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.

About Us:

Located on Kaurna Country, in the North and North-Eastern Suburbs of Adelaide, close to the world-famous Barossa Valley wine region, and within 30 minutes of the CBD, NALHN serves more than 400 000 people at the Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals, along with our state-of-the-art Specialist Ambulatory Rehabilitation Centre and our community and home-based sites. The network boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways. 

Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:

“My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care”

“I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service”

“I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support”

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

In addition this, other benefits of working as an Senior Social Worker in NALHN include:

• Professional development opportunities.  We have a well established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and staff are also eligible for external, funded professional development via the Allied Health Professionals Plus Professional Development Reimbursement Program, to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations; 
• Opportunities to participate in research.  NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research.
• Regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals.

About You:

Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Senior Social Worker looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

About the Role:

An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Senior Social Worker within the Allied Health Division.

The Senior Social Worker is operationally responsible to the Senior Manager, Intermediate Care Services for the development, implementation, coordination and evaluation of quality Allied Health Chronic Disease Intermediate Care Services (within a self-management support framework) for patients of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN).

The Allied Health Chronic Disease Intermediate Care Services bring together Dietetic, Exercise Physiology, Occupational Therapy, Podiatry, Physiotherapy, Social Work and Case Management services working collaboratively with services from the NALHN Clinical Divisions and Aboriginal Health Services to optimise health outcomes and reduce hospital admissions for patients with Diabetes, Cardiac and Respiratory Diseases, and vulnerable people with other chronic diseases.

Working in conjunction with Intermediate Care Services clinicians and other health professionals, the Senior Clinician optimises patient functional and health outcomes in this specialty area.  As a highly skilled and competent clinician, the incumbent delivers quality services and provides clinical leadership within the Allied Health Intermediate Care Services, providing support and supervision to less experienced staff.

To be eligible for this position, you must have an Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.

Check(s)

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

Immunisation Risk for this position is –  Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job Ref: 860266

Enquiries

Melissa Pearse

Allied Health Facilitator

Phone: (08) 8182 9***

E-mail: **************@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

29 March 2024 - 11.55PM

Attachments

 860266 - Senior Social Worker - AHP3 - Role Description.pdf

* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.