Senior Social Worker - Social Work, St Vincent's Public Hospital, Sydney

Role title: Senior Social Worker
Role type: Permanent, full time
Role grade: Social Worker, Level 3 (Year 1-2)
Department and location: Social Work, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
Salary: $116,892.00 - $120,680.00 + Super + Salary Packaging

Better and fairer care. Always.
We are St Vincent's Health Australia, Australia's largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services.

Founded by The Sisters of Charity in 1857, our +30,000 healthcare superheroes operate public and private hospitals, residential aged care, community and virtual care, and outreach programs.

About the role

• Join a team of Cancer Social Workers delivering individual, family, and group interventions to inpatients and outpatients within a multidisciplinary setting, covering Bone Marrow Transplant, Haematology, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, and Head and Neck Oncology.
• Provide comprehensive social work support to patients, families, and carers affected by a cancer diagnosis, across St Vincent's Hospital, the Kinghorn Cancer Centre, and other allocated clinical areas.
• Provide high-quality, area-specific social work services, including comprehensive biopsychosocial and risk assessments, individual and family counselling for adjustment to illness, and end-of-life care interventions such as memory-making, advance care planning, and post-death guidance.
• Apply advanced clinical knowledge and skills within the relevant area of practice, and contribute to research, quality improvement, and departmental initiatives.
• Provide supervision to staff and students, deliver education sessions for social work and other disciplines, and promote excellence in evidence-based social work practice.
• You will be required to be part of the 24-hour on-call Social Work roster at St Vincent's Hospital.

About you

• Hold a degree in Social Work and be eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
• Demonstrated advanced clinical experience in a tertiary hospital or health-related setting with inpatients and outpatients with a cancer diagnosis or terminal illness.
• Highly skilled in psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, counselling, adjustment to illness, case management, short-term solution-focused interventions, group work, grief and loss, and discharge planning (including NDIS, ACAT & NCAT).
• Committed to multidisciplinary teamwork in complex environments, with experience providing clinical supervision to staff and students.
• Ability to lead or contribute to research, quality, and education initiatives, with strong communication and negotiation skills.

Why work at St Vincent's?

• Join us on our mission to provide care to all, including the most at-risk people in our community
• Discounted access to many gyms for you and your family with Fitness Passport
• Access to discounted private health insurance with Medibank
• Access to a government salary sacrifice program. Make a proportion of your salary tax-free
• Committed to financial support for educational development, scholarship programs, paid study leave

About the hospital
In this role you will be based at St Vincent's hospital, Darlinghurst.

• A busy inner-city hospital in a beautiful location
• Surrounded by great cafes, galleries and theatres, parks, nightlife, and nearby glorious beaches
• A place of expert clinical care for at-risk people
• Closely partnered with universities & affiliated research institutes, many of which are located on-campus
• Centres of excellence include heart & lung transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, cardiology, cancer care, AIDS/HIV, respiratory medicine, mental health, homeless health, drug & alcohol services, and correctional health

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia
Please note, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. For this role you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or have an Australia visa that grants you the work rights necessary for the role.

Pre-employment checks
Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role-required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.

Equal opportunity
We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

As part of our commitment to reconciliation, we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply and join us in delivering care that heals body, mind, spirit and community.

How to apply
The closing date for applications is 16th April 2026.

Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter highlighting how your interest, skills, and experience align with each of the things listed in the About You section of this job advert.

Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.

Respectfully, this role is not open to recruitment agencies.

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