Level 3 Social Worker - Palliative Care
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- Social Worker
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- REQ655733 Requisition #
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- 14 hours ago Post Date
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3
Remuneration: $116,892 - $120,680 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ655733
Application Close: 30 April 2026
Previous Applicant need not apply
REQ655733 - Level 3 Social Worker - Palliative Care
Join Our Compassionate and Skilled Social Work Team at St George Hospital. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Level 3 Social Worker to join our dedicated team in a permanent full-time role within the inpatient palliative care service at St George Hospital.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a specialist clinical area, supporting patients with palliative cancer and non-cancer diagnoses, their families, and carers. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering holistic, person-centred care as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) in palliative care.
Key responsibilities include:
- Previous experience working in Palliative Care is desirable.
- Providing advanced psychosocial assessment and intervention for patients and families facing life-limiting illness.
- Supporting complex discharge planning, grief and bereavement care, and end-of-life decision-making.
- Collaborating closely with medical, nursing, allied health, and pastoral care teams to ensure integrated care delivery.
- Offering clinical supervision and mentoring to junior social work staff and students.
We are looking for a social worker who brings clinical expertise, emotional intelligence, and leadership skills, and who is passionate about advocating for vulnerable patients and supporting families through challenging health transitions. Social Work staff at St George hospital have access to wellbeing activities and regular supervision and professional development opportunities to sustain professional growth and development.
The Role
The social worker will provide high quality care and clinical expertise and specialised knowledge when planning, coordinating and implementing care for the patient cohort which consistent with NSW Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards. The social worker will have responsibility for providing clinical care and care coordination to people across SESLHD who have end of life and palliative care needs who are in the last 12-24 months of life. The social worker will support these patients through the Community Supportive Care Services (CSCS) model at St George Hospital (SGH). This position is suitable for clinicians interested in palliative care. The position will assist with triage of patients to the appropriate community or outpatient psychology services. Once accepted to the CSCS, social worker will provide comprehensive health assessments, therapy, education and support to patients and their families. Within this role, there will be a requirement to undertake clinical reviews across clinic, community and virtual care settings, either alone or in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will be supported by the Palliative Care Teams within the Supportive Care Service at St George Hospital as well as by the social work team. In addition to the above, there will be opportunities to lead education and research activities and undertake strategic planning and capacity building activities for this service to identify unmet palliative care and end-of-life needs, promoting early referrals to specialist palliative care services, and supporting communication between the ward-based clinician and the palliative care multidisciplinary team (MDT).
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
- Comprehensive post graduate clinical experience in the provision of social work intervention with clients with end of life or palliative care needs
- 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 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 commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning
- Current NSW Class C Drivers Licence or equivalent and ability to travel as required
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
We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplaces are welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and social-economic status. Read about our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy for more information.
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.
Information for applicants
- An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies.
- 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 Specified Infectious Diseases for all positions prior to offer.
- We do have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant 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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