MedicalJobsAustralia.com Senior Social Worker - Medical Oncology

Job no: 953756

Work type: Full time

Located in: Adelaide Metro Northern

Categories: Allied and Scientific Health

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Lyell McEwin Hospital - ELIZABETH VALE SA 5112

Salary: $112,139 - $120,284 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits - AHP3

Temporary Full-Time - up to 31 October 2027

About the Role

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit an experienced hospital Senior Social Worker to work in our agile, growing and supportive team, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.

At the Lyell McEwin Hospital and Modbury Hospital, the Medical- Oncology team delivers complex, multi-disciplinary care to people across Adelaide's northern suburbs and beyond. As a Senior Social Worker embedded in this service, you'll bring a clinical depth and genuine human connection to patients and families navigating their health care journey.

Your Role in the Team

Reporting to the Allied Health leadership within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN), you will provide specialist psychosocial assessment, counselling, and care coordination to Medical Oncology patients across inpatient and outpatient settings. This is a full-time across 7 days including working some weekends and public holidays, fixed-term contract through to 31 October 2027.

Deliver high-quality psychosocial assessments and interventions for patients and their families

Collaborate within care and multi-disciplinary teams to develop and implement patient-centred care plans

Provide clinical consultation, supervision, and support to less experienced social work staff and students

Contribute to service development, quality improvement, and evidence-informed practice within the unit

What You'll Bring

Demonstrated min 5 years experience in medical - oncology social work, or a comparable acute tertiary health setting

Strong skills in psychosocial assessment, grief and loss counselling, and crisis intervention

Proven ability to work within and contribute to multi-disciplinary clinical teams

Familiarity with SA Health frameworks, including the NALHN model of care and relevant legislative requirements

Experience providing supervision or mentorship to least experienced practitioners and students

Experience providing child protection, domestic and family violence and elder abuse risk assessments and intervention.

Proven ability to write a high standard of clinical reports and clinical notes.





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 opportunity 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 career 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.

Benefits 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 Senior 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 professional development expenses to

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