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Social Worker AHP2 - Ongoing Part-Time Role at Leading Medical Centre

Join SA Health as a Part-time Social Worker AHP2 at Flinders Medical Centre, where you will provide essential psychosocial support to patients and families across various medical specialties. This ongoing position offers the opportunity to work within a leading healthcare facility while maintaining excellent work-life balance through flexible part-time arrangements.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Director, this role is responsible for effectively planning and providing therapeutic interventions based on patient goals. This may involve consultation and liaison with the team, other professional disciplines and non-government organisations. The Social Worker is accountable for their own practice standards, activities delegated to others and the guidance and development of less experienced staff.

Duties for the role will include:

• Assessing patients’ abilities, problems and goals using a variety of formal and informal assessments,
• Providing counselling services to patients and their carers to assist them to adjust to major lifestyle changes and resolve issues of grief and loss,
• Planning and implementing intervention programs,
• Supporting, mentoring and providing clinical supervision to AHP1 social work clinicians,
• Documenting assessment findings and interventions in accordance with service standards,
• Providing information to patients and/or relatives/carers about level of functioning and ongoing management

About you:

• Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers,
• Ability to provide clinical Social Work services to Inpatient Rehabilitation as a member of an interdisciplinary team. This includes ability to undertake assessment and intervention with patients with a variety of disorders and disabilities, including management of complex cases,
• Ability to critically analyse or evaluate issues related to Social Work care in a manner which can be applied to quality activities, service evaluation, professional education or research with a commitment to ongoing professional development,
• High levels of responsibility and organisational skills including the ability to prioritise work, meet deadlines, delegate appropriately.  This includes the ability to supervise AHP1 Social Workers, students and allied health assistants,
• Experience as a clinician in the assessment and provision of high-quality social work interventions to rehabilitation clients with a variety of medical conditions and disabilities,
• Experience in establishing and maintaining high standards of Social Work

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Emma Phillips, Director of Social Work, 0478 282 786, Emma.Phillips@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Friday 26 September 2025

Attachments:

• Social Worker Inpatient Rehab- Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• 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 and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• 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: 914993.