- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Northern Mental Health – Salisbury
- Salary: $91,785 - $106,330 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP2
- Temporary Full-Time – up to 8 January 2027
Are you passionate about improving mental health outcomes and supporting people to live their best lives? The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to join our Northern Community Mental Health team. This is your chance to work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment where your expertise will help shape recovery journeys and strengthen community connections.
Working across Adelaide's northern metropolitan region, you will provide essential clinical social work services to adults and their families, supporting recovery journeys through evidence-based interventions and collaborative care approaches.
If you thrive on collaboration, value person-centred care, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.
About the Role:
As a Social Worker (AHP2), you will:
- Provide high-quality assessment, care coordination, and treatment services for consumers of community mental health programs.
- Work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to deliver integrated, goal-directed care.
- Support consumers and families through discharge planning, psychosocial interventions, and access to housing and community supports.
- Participate in clinical reviews, team meetings, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to service development, research, and training of students.
This role offers variety, professional growth, and the opportunity to make a tangible difference in the lives of individuals and families.
About You:
You are a compassionate and skilled professional who values teamwork and innovation. You bring:
- Experience in mental health or related clinical setting
- Competence in mental health assessment, care coordination, and treatment planning.
- Ability to manage complex cases and work independently when required.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage consumers, families, and stakeholders, 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
- Excellent time management and organisational abilities.
- Commitment to continuous learning and quality improvement.
- Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams
Ready to make a difference in community mental health?
Apply now and help shape the future of mental health services at NALHN.
About Us:
NALHN Community Mental Health Services provide specialist acute and recovery-oriented individualised services for people with lived experience of mental illness. Services include psychiatric outpatient and medication clinics, care coordination, individual and group therapy for people aged 18 to 65. Community residential and group rehabilitation programs are provided in a range of settings.
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia.
NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.
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:
Lyell McEwin Hospital – The major hospital in the north and north-east for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetrics, 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.
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 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 staff are also eligible for external, funded professional development 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.
Checks:
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: 924017
Enquiries:
Mangaljit Johal
A/Principal Social Worker
Phone: (08) 7485 4300
E-mail: Mangaljit.Johal@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
9 January 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
924017 - AHP2 - Social Worker - Community - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
