- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Allied Health – Elizabeth Vale/Modbury
- Salary: $86,950 - $100,729 p.a. – AHP2/3; Temporary Full-Time– 37.50 hours per week, up until 30 June 2024 (Multiple Positions)
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.
With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.
Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
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.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Social Worker looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
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.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Social Worker within the Allied Health unit.
This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture. In this key position you will demonstrate your experience and previous success working as a Registered Mental Health Nurse to ensure high quality care is delivered to our consumers.
Social Worker AHP2
The Social Worker (AHP2) is accountable to the Senior Manager of Social Work NALHN for the provision assessment and treatment services for inpatients and outpatients of NALHN which aims to optimise health outcomes. The incumbent will rotate through a series of clinical services.
The Social Worker applies clinical experience, increasing clinical knowledge and professional competence to plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive and integrated services to the needs of clients of NALHN. The Social Worker (AHP2) works under limited direct clinical supervision and may provide direction and support to less experience therapists, allied health assistants and students.
The Social Worker works collaboratively with the Allied Health multi-disciplinary team and liaises directly with medical, nursing staff of NALHN and with other community agencies.
To be eligible for this position, you must
ESSENTIAL MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Educational/Vocational Qualifications
- Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
Senior Social Worker AHP3
The Senior Social Worker (AHP3) is responsible to the Senior Manager of Social Work for the development, implementation, coordination and evaluation of quality Social Work services for patients of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN), particularly in the clinical areas of Intensive Care, High Dependency and general Surgery.
Working in conjunction with other Social Work members and other health professionals the Senior Clinician optimises patient functional and health outcomes in this specialty area. As a highly skilled and competent clinician in the areas of Social Work, the incumbent delivers quality services and provides clinical leadership within the acute hospital services, providing support and supervision to less experienced staff.
To be eligible for this position, you must
ESSENTIAL MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Educational/Vocational Qualifications
- Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
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 Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)
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: 863307
Enquiries
Tanya Abdilla
Allied Health Facilitator
Phone: 8182 9379
E-mail: tanya.abdilla@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
3 May 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
Role Description
863307 - Social Worker - AHP2 - Role Description.pdf
863307 - Social Worker - AHP3 - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information
