MedicalJobsAustralia.com Social Worker - ACRPC Casual Pool

Job no: 953991

Work type: Casual

Located in: Adelaide Metro Northern

Categories: Allied and Scientific Health

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Modbury Hospital - MODBURY SA 5092

Salary: $37.67 - $45.99 per hour plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits - AHP1

Salary: $48.56 - $56.25 per hour plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits - AHP2

Casual up to 28 January 2028 (Multiple Positions)

About the Role

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network is seeking Social Workers to join the Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care Division casual pool. This rewarding chance offers the chance to make a lasting impact to the lives of those we serve while advancing your professional growth.

As a Social Worker in this vital role, you'll have the chance to positively influence the lives of individuals and their families during some of their most vulnerable moments. Your expertise and compassion will play a crucial role in providing comprehensive social work services, including assessment, counselling, advocacy, and support.

Working within the dynamic and supportive environment, you'll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals to deliver holistic care tailored to each patient's unique needs. Your ability to empathise, problem-solve, and communicate effectively will be invaluable in ensuring the highest quality of care.

What You'll Be Doing

Providing high-quality, person-centred social work assessment and intervention across Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative care settings across NALHN.

Supporting patients and families navigating complex psychosocial needs, discharge planning, and care transitions

Collaborating within multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement care plans that reflect each patient's goals and circumstances

Contributing to a safe, inclusive ward environment through skilled advocacy and culturally responsive practice

What You'll Bring

Demonstrated experience in an acute or health-related social work setting

Strong skills in psychosocial assessment, risk identification, and discharge coordination The ability to work independently and prioritise competing demands in a busy hospital environment

Understanding of the SA Health patient rights framework and relevant legislative requirements

Understanding of relevant Aged Care Service and ability to support patients to access these





Current or willingness to obtain a satisfactory criminal history check and immunisation compliance as required by NALHN 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.

About You

This is an excellent chance to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

About Us

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.

NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.

With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.

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."

Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:

NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient,



community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide's north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.

Lyell McEwin Hospital-the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital-a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.

Mental Health Services-adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.

Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services-provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.

Primary Health Care Services-including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.

Perks 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.

Incremental wage increases in-line with the Allied Health Professionals, Assistants and Psychologists Enterprise Agreement 2025

Access to experienced clinicians across a broad range of expertise, who are supportive of collegial sharing of skills and knowledge in different therapies and client presentations.

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.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

In addition to this, other benefits of working as a 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 under the current enterprise agreement staff are also eligible for a Professional Development Allowance and entitled to claim reimbursement of eligible profe

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