Social Worker (Lvl 1-2) - Healthy Kids and Families - Perm PT
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- Social Worker
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- REQ649961 Requisition #
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- Mar 17, 2026 Post Date
Requisition ID: REQ649961
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time, 32 hours per week
Remuneration: $38.51 - $54.94 per hour + 12% Superannuation + Salary Packaging
Location: SWSLHD District Wide - Based between Liverpool Health Services Building and Fairfield Community Health
Applications close: 06/04/2026
Contact: Jennifer Parker - Head of Department, Social Work on 0483 302 380 | jennifer.parker1@health.nsw.gov.au
With your skills and experience, you can contribute to the millions of ways we're enriching health, and develop your career as part of the largest health organisation in Australia.
Achieve Something Great
This role offers the chance to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, young people, and families while growing your professional capability within a supportive, purpose driven team in Healthy Kids and Families.
Why you'll love this role:
- Provide impactful psychosocial assessment, advocacy, and support using a person centred framework, ensuring families receive compassionate, evidence based care.
- Work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team to deliver a continuum of care that meets the diverse needs of children, parents, and carers.
- Build your professional capability through structured development opportunities, including clinical supervision, peer review, professional development planning, and participation in clinical networks.
- Contribute to quality improvement, helping shape a service that evolves to deliver the highest standard of care.
- Be part of a team that values cultural respect, inclusivity, and the NSW Health CORE values, ensuring your work supports healthier communities and meaningful health outcomes.
About The Role
We are seeking a Social Worker to join our Community Paediatrics team, supporting paediatricians in the assessment and care of children presenting to clinics with behavioural, developmental, and psychosocial concerns. You will work alongside families to ensure they feel informed, supported, and empowered. A key part of this role involves supporting the health literacy of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and refugee families, ensuring information is accessible, culturally respectful, and tailored to each family’s context. This includes helping families understand assessment processes, navigating service pathways, and advocating for equitable access to care.
You will bring a strong understanding of child protection concerns and the interface between trauma, safety, and child development. This includes recognising indicators of risk, understanding how trauma may present in behaviour and development, and working collaboratively with paediatricians and statutory agencies to ensure children’s safety and wellbeing. Your practice will be grounded in trauma informed principles, balancing support, advocacy, and mandatory reporting responsibilities with sensitivity and cultural awareness.
You will play a key role in:
- Conducting psychosocial assessments that inform paediatric clinical decision making.
- Supporting families to navigate services, understand care pathways, and access appropriate interventions.
- Providing early intervention, advocacy, and coordinated care to improve health and developmental outcomes.
- Ensuring care is culturally safe, trauma informed, and aligned with best practice standards.
This is a rewarding opportunity to contribute to a service that supports children’s wellbeing from a holistic, person-centred perspective.
Are You the Right Fit?
We are looking for someone who is passionate about supporting children, young people, and families through compassionate, evidence based social work practice.
- You bring experience in psychosocial assessment, advocacy, and patient centred care, with a strong commitment to achieving health outcomes.
- You have strong communication skills with people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds, including children, families and carers.
- You bring experience working within multidisciplinary teams, ensuring care is coordinated, responsive, and culturally respectful.
- You demonstrate professionalism through reflective practice, clinical supervision, ongoing professional development, and participation in quality improvement activities.
- You work collaboratively, engage respectfully with diverse communities, and uphold the values and ethical standards of NSW Health and the AASW Code of Ethics.
- You manage your workload efficiently, maintain accurate documentation, and contribute positively to team goals, service development, and student learning.
Selection Criteria
To help us assess your suitability for the role, please tell us as much as you can about yourself in response to the questions below.
- Do you have a Social Work degree which provides eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)?
- Can you describe a recent situation in which you provided social work interventions in a health related setting? In your response, outline the types of interventions you delivered, how you prioritised your workload, managed stress, and applied evidence based practice and critical thinking to support positive outcomes.
- How do you demonstrate effective collaboration, communication, and professionalism in your social work practice? Please include examples of working both independently and within a multidisciplinary team, maintaining high quality documentation and computer skills, engaging in clinical supervision and professional learning, and contributing to quality improvement processes.
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Position Information
Applicants will be assessed against the criteria in the Position Description.
How to Apply
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Diversity, Culture & Inclusion
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to accessibility and a supportive recruitment experience. If you require adjustments or assistance during the application process, please contact SWSLHDJobs@health.nsw.gov.au
We value the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of our workforce and are committed to fostering a respectful and welcoming environment. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, neurodivergent individuals, those from Refugee, multicultural and multifaith backgrounds, and members of the LGBTQI+ community.
Aboriginal Workforce
For Aboriginal candidates who would like to talk to our Aboriginal Workforce Team, please contact SWSLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au. Support is also available through the Stepping Up website.
More Than Just a Job – Why Work With Us?
Financial Perks
12% superannuation
Salary packaging and novated leasing via Smart Salary
Annual leave with 17.5% leave loading (for full-time and part-time staff)
One extra day off each month for full-time employees
Work-Life Balance
Flexible work options, including hybrid and varied hours (depending on the role)
Paid maternity and parental leave
Generous leave options like long service and carers leave
Grow Your Career
Access to learning opportunities through our dedicated Education and Organisational Development team, who support staff with training, workshops, and career development programs.
Health & Wellbeing
Discounted gym membership through Fitness Passport
Free and confidential support for staff and their families via our Staff Wellbeing and Support Service (EAP)
Wellbeing programs that promote mental health, resilience, and balance
Additional Information
Temporary visa holders
May be considered if no suitable citizen or permanent resident is found.
Vaccination Requirements
All staff must meet NSW Health’s vaccination and screening requirements before starting.
Child Safe Employment
South Western Sydney Local Health District is dedicated to fostering a child-safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people, aligned with NSW Health’s commitment to implementing the Child Safe Standards. We aim to ensure that children and young people feel safe, supported, and included in their care. All current and prospective staff are expected to prioritise the safety, welfare, and well-being of children and young people, actively working to protect them from harm and abuse.
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