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Make a Real Difference: Senior Social Worker - Children's Assessment Team

Join SA Health as a Senior Social Worker with the Children's Assessment Team and transform the healthcare journey for children and families during their most vulnerable moments. This part-time contract position until June 2026 offers you the chance to work within a leading multidisciplinary team, providing critical psychosocial support and advocacy within South Australia's premier healthcare network. Make a lasting impact while advancing your career with Australia's most trusted health employer, where your expertise will directly improve patient outcomes and family wellbeing.

About the role: 

As Senior Social Worker you will be part of the broader Paediatric Ambulatory Social Work team, specifically providing social work services for Children and Families accessing care through the Children's Assessment Team. Some of your duties for the role will include:

• Provision of psychosocial supports to children and families accessing services through the Children's Assessment Team with a particular focus on support for families with vulnerabilities or experiencing distress
• Case and care coordination for allocated families
• Provision of expert advisory and consultancy in paediatric and family social work to clinical team members, members of the broader team, and to external service providers across SA and interstate as needed
• Attend internal and external clinical meetings to provide expert advice on paediatric social work

About you:

• Extensive experience working with patients and families as a social worker in child and family care
• Demonstrated ability to develop a range of partnerships, networks and relationships with key stakeholders within and external to the organisation to address complex psycho-social issues and achieve desired outcomes
• Experience in complex care navigation and support
• Demonstrated high level of oral and written communications skills and the ability to develop written procedures, reports, proposals and presentations

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Angela Miles, Children's Assessment Team, Team Leader, (08) 87425 8466, Angela.Miles@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Thursday 22nd January 2026

Attachments:

• Senior Social Worker (Paediatric Ambulatory Care Service) - 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: 926963