Acting Level 3 Social Worker
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- Social Worker
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- REQ589353 Requisition #
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- 1 day ago Post Date
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until 17 August 2026
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3
Remuneration: $112,396 - $116,038 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3
Remuneration: $112,396 - $116,038 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ589353
Application Close: 23 July 2025
REQ589353 - Acting Level 3 Social Worker
REQ589353 - Acting Level 3 Social Worker
Join the wonderful team of Social Workers at St George Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated social worker to join the Social Work Department at St George Hospital. This temporary full time position is located within our Critical Care and Medicine Team, working in the Intensive Care Unit with patients and their families, carers. You will be part of a large, dedicated and highly skilled department working with culturally and socially diverse patients and their families. All Social Work positions are required to provide support to other areas within the hospital as needed. Applicants are advised that at times the position involves working with vulnerable people and people experiencing trauma. Applicants are also advised that this position includes ongoing participation in the after-hours on call crisis service. We appreciate that Social Work in public health can be challenging, so we have a suite of wellbeing initiatives occurring across the department to make sure we’re caring for ourselves as well as our patients.
The Role
The Role
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
Plan, coordinate, and implement in-depth levels of clinical expertise and extensive specialised knowledge within a social work specialty area in order to provide high quality counselling, advocacy and therapeutic care to the patients, their carers and families of the facility consistent with NSW Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards.
- Assess, plan, organise, deliver, evaluate, and report on the provision of high quality Social Work care in accordance with AASW guidelines, NSW Health and SESLHD policies and clinical practices, to achieve patient/client health outcomes within specified timeframes.
- Demonstrate advanced Social Work reasoning skills that enhance the service's ability to manage more complex patients/clients within the clinical specialty and exercise independent professional judgement in solving problems and managing cases where principles, procedures, techniques and methods require expansion, adaptation or modification.
- Communicate effectively in a culturally sensitive manner with patients/clients, families, and other health care professionals to plan intervention strategies to ensure patients needs are identified and provide clinical services to client groups and circumstances of a complex nature requiring advanced practice skills and clearly articulate these to others in the team.
- Provide in-depth advice and support regarding Social Work to health care professionals within the multi-disciplinary team and act in a consultative role within the specialty area, in order to establish co-ordinated and continuity of care to patients/clients
- Apply professional knowledge and judgement when performing novel, complex or critical tasks specific to Social Work and plan and prioritise own and team work requirements to effectively meet defined patient/client care objectives within agreed timeframes
- Maintain up to date knowledge and skills, and practice within the risk management, safety, and quality frameworks as applicable to SESLHD, to ensure the health and safety of staff, patients and visitors.
- Plan, deliver and evaluate high quality Social Work education to patients, their families, and other health care professional. Teach and supervise students on clinical placement and work experience as required. Provide clinical supervision and support to Level 1 and 2 health professionals, technical and support staff.
- Identify opportunities for improvement in clinical practice and develop and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff and contribute to the development of policies, procedures, standards and practices in order to continuously improve the level of service provided to patients/clients.
- Maintain responsibility for personal and professional development by participating in evidence based practice activities, training/education, and performance reviews/appraisals in order to continuously improve the level of service provided to patients/clients.
- Facilitate research both from a Social Work and interdiciplinary perspective.
Benefits
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
- Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
- Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
- Discounted Private Health Insurance.
Selection Criteria
- Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award and eligibility for membership of the AASW
- Extensive post graduate clinical experience in relevant specialty area with a demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning
- Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, throughout all organisational levels
- Ability to provide in-depth advice and education to enhance service delivery and to guide and support others in providing service excellence, with the capacity to provide clinical supervision to other staff
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature
- Ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff
- Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritise your own and team work requirements effectively within agreed time frames
- Demonstrated experience in providing crisis interventions and the ability to participate in the After Hours Crisis On-Call Social Work Service.
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions, Please contact Anabelle Perry via email at Anabelle.Perry@health.nsw.gov.au
Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.
Reasonable Adjustments
NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email SESLHD-Recruitment-STG@health.nsw.gov.au and let us know.
Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
- Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description.
- Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer.
- SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. We do have an Aboriginal Workforce that can also provide support (SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website.
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