Employment Type:PermanentFull Time
Position Classification:Social Worker Level 3
Remuneration:$2,329.84 - $2,405.33 per week
Hours Per Week:38
Requisition ID:REQ703963
Location: Gosford Hospital
Application Closes: Monday 16th November 2026 at 11.59pm

Join our dynamic team at Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) as a Senior Social Worker(Level 3) Complex Discharge Advisory Team (CDAT) team based at Gosford.

About the Opportunity

As a Social Worker within the CDAT program, you will have a unique opportunity to lead and implement service innovation. This service integrated program brings both Social Work and Occupational Therapy together to provide consultation, to mentor, build practice capacity and work alongside your Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) and Allied Health colleagues and patients and their families / carers to enable timely , safe and appropriate discharge with sustainable transfer of care to the community.

With advanced understanding of:

- Complex psychosocial challenges that can occur for patients and/or their families and the impact these challenges have upon timely and appropriate hospital discharge;
- The range of emotional responses that can accompany chronic illness, crisis and trauma for patients and their families;
- Approaches that enables mentoring and support provided to your allied health and multi-disciplinary team (MDT) colleagues;
- The community service system including Guardianship and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) processes;

You will develop internal and external service partnerships, provide comprehensive assessments, care and discharge planning,



mentorship, support and guidance to your MDT colleagues.

As part of our mutually supportive and dedicated team, you will have opportunities for professional development, service development, and collaboration with senior managers and colleagues.

For more information about this role, please view the Position Description

Whereyou will be working

The position is part of the Inpatient Social Work team based at Gosford Hospital providing a professional social work service to patients and their family/carers to ensure the provision of optimal health outcomes for patients consistent with CCLHD policies, procedures, standards, relevant legislation, and the NSW Health Code of Conduct.

This position will work alongside multidisciplinary teams to deliver high quality care in a dynamic team environment.

The Social Worker will work with the multidisciplinary team, senior managers and other inpatient social workers to ensure the delivery of effective and proactive social work services and psychosocial care.

The Senior clinician is expected to be proactive and show leadership in the areas of service development, implementation, evaluation and reporting providing Social Work Clinical supervision ,



mentoring and multi-disciplinary staff and Social work student learning.

As the leading healthcare provider in the region, Central Coast Local Health District is well known for its dedication to high quality patient care and community services. CCLHD provides the community of the Central Coast with a caring environment dedicated to improving the patient journey.

About You

We are looking for someone who has:

- Tertiary qualification in Social Work, with eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) (overseas qualifications must supply the AASW Overseas Assessment number). A demonstrated understanding of the current AASW Practice Standards as they relate to Inpatient Social Work.
- A well-developed understanding of the psychosocial issues that arise for patients and their families during chronic and acute illness and trauma. Preferably demonstrated social work experience in the clinical specialty area where applicable.

Demonstrated experience in providing psychosocial assessment and crisis management, within person centred, trauma informed and brief intervention models and preferably within a health clinical setting and or within the clinical specialty where applicable.

Applicants must have current work rights in Australia or be a permanent resident or citizen. Unfortunately, we cannot consider applicants who do not meet this requirement.

Benefits

- Work-Life Balance:Enjoy an accrued day off each month, 17.5% annual leave loading, and paid parental leave.
- Financial Perks

📌 CCLHD - Social Worker Level 3 - Inpatient Senior Clinician (Central Coast)
🏢 NSW Health
📍 Central Coast