Social Worker - ACRPC Casual Pool

SA Health

Adelaide

On-site

AUD 52,000 - 77,000

Part time

10 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Salary Sacrifice

Superannuation benefits

Casual contract until 28 Jan 2028

Job summary

SA Health in Adelaide is seeking casual Social Workers to join the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network’s Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care division. These roles offer flexible casual employment, opportunities to support patients and families, and involvement in multidisciplinary teams delivering holistic care.

Eligible applicants hold a Social Work degree with AASW membership eligibility. Applicants must be prepared for immunisation and criminal history checks and can contribute

Qualifications

Degree in Social Work or equivalent
Eligible for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers
Criminal history check and immunisation compliance as required

Responsibilities

Provide high-quality, person-centred social work assessment and intervention.
Support patients and families with complex psychosocial needs, discharge planning and care transitions.
Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement care plans aligned with patient goals.
Contribute to a safe, inclusive ward environment with advocacy and culturally responsive practice

Skills

Social work experience

Psychosocial assessment

Discharge planning

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Advocacy & communication

Patient rights framework

Education

Bachelor of Social Work or equivalent

Job description

Job no: 953991
Work type: Casual
Location: 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 opportunity 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:

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

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.

NALHNserves over400,000 peoplein 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.

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 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 allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations
opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research
regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals

SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence.

We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.

Check(s):

DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
National Police Check (National Police Certificate)for aged care sector screening – apply to any of the accredited bodies approved to offer a service direct to the public. Accreditation is provided by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission . See our National Police Certificate accredited bodies page for links to lodge screening requests.

Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 953991

Enquiries:

Josephine Healy

Clinical Manager

Phone: 0427 497 583

E-mail: josephine.healy@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date:

28 January 2028 – 11.55PM

Role Description and Further Information:

953991 - Social Worker - AHP1 - Aged Care Rehabiltation & Palliative Care - Role Description.pdf

953991 - Social Worker - AHP2 - Aged Care Rehabiltation & Palliative Care - Role Description.pdf

Advertised: 23 Oct 2026 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
Applications close: 28 Jan 2028 Cen. Australia Daylight Time