Department of Health
Hospitals & Primary Care - Hospitals Nth
Primary Health North

Applications must be submitted by Sunday 22 November, 2026 11:55 PM

Sunday 22 November, 2026 11:55 PM AEST

Award/Classification:

Allied Health Professionals Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement, Allied Health Professional, Level 3

$117,272 to $126,182 per annum

Employment type:

Permanent, part-time

Region:

North

Location:

Plan, provide and evaluate specialist social work services to critical areas in the acute care setting.Mentor and supervise social work staff based on best practice in accordance with current models, qualified standards and the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Code of Ethics

The Team

Are you looking for a role where every day brings variety, meaning, and the chance to make a real impact across diverse communities?

Community Health Social Work North is a dynamic, values-driven team delivering evidence-based, trauma-informed Social Work services across community health centres, district hospitals, and rural and regional communities throughout Northern Tasmania.

Our clinicians work with people experiencing a broad range of health and psychosocial challenges. This requires robust therapeutic counselling skills, sound psychosocial assessment, and the ability to support people through complex issues such as grief and loss, adjustment to illness, trauma, stress, mental health concerns, family and relationship pressures, social isolation, carer stress, and life transitions.

From Launceston to surrounding rural communities, the role offers meaningful variety and the opportunity to build strong therapeutic relationships over time. Our work is deeply connected to place, community,



and local context. We value clinicians who understand the importance of local knowledge, strong service relationships, and working alongside communities to provide care that is accessible, responsive, and relevant.

What sets us apart is our positive team culture. We live our CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. You will have access to peer support, clinical supervision, discipline leadership, and professional development.

The Role

- In this role, you will provide Social Work services to individuals, families, groups, and communities within the Launceston area, plus have the opportunity to provide outreach to surrounding regions and district hospitals. Travel during work hours is fully supported, with access to a fleet vehicle.
- Your work may include comprehensive psychosocial assessment, therapeutic counselling, medium to long-term intervention, group facilitation, outreach visits, care coordination, advocacy, community development, and integrated multidisciplinary planning.
- You will work with people experiencing a broad range of health, mental health, social, emotional, relational, and practical stressors. This may include supporting people adjusting to illness or life changes, navigating complex systems, managing grief and loss, trauma, stress,



family or relationship concerns, social isolation, carer stress, or challenges linked to rurality and limited-service access.
- This is a role suited to experienced Social Workers who are confident working with autonomy. Many of our positions operate as the key Social Work presence within a community site or district hospital, requiring the ability to manage complex presentations, make independent decisions, and adapt practice to local need while remaining connected to a supportive professional team.

You will need

You will be an experienced Social Worker with demonstrated skills in:

- Providing therapeutic counselling, medium to long-term 1:1 Social Work intervention, comprehensive psychosocial assessment, formulation, care planning, and risk-informed practice across a broad range of health-related, psychosocial, emotional, relational, and practical issues.
- Working autonomously with sound clinical judgement in varied community-based, outreach, sole-practitioner, rural and regional settings, while managing complexity, prioritising competing demands, and remaining connected to supervision, peer support, and a broader professional team.
- Building trusted relationships with clients, local communities, multidisciplinary teams, health services, government and non-government agencies, including through advocacy, consultation, system navigation, team-oriented care planning, and the design and facilitation of therapeutic or psychoeducational group programs.

Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.

📌 Senior Social Worker (Australia)
🏢 Department of Health, Tasmania
📍 Australia