- Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network
- AHP3 Salary: $112, 139 - $120,294 p.a (pro rata) + Super, Leave Loading, Salary Sacrifice and Benefits
- Ongoing, Part time (18.5 hours/week)
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
The Clinical Senior Social Worker within the Children’s Health & Development Team, Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network is an experienced clinician who provides high-quality, person-centred social work services while offering clinical leadership to allied health professionals across the region. This role plays a key part in driving improvements in service quality, safety, and responsiveness to community needs through collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, managers, and key stakeholders.
The position also contributes to the development and implementation of models of care and workforce initiatives, supporting continuous improvement and the delivery of equitable, community-focused health services across South Australia.
WHO ARE WE?
The Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network offers opportunities across our sites, from Kangaroo Island to Eudunda, wrapping all the way around our metropolitan areas. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional care to all our consumers, residents, their families, and community. Our mission is to ensure that you always receive the best quality, safe, consistent, collaborative care and always with kindness. We do this by maintaining exceptional levels of care at all times supported by systems and processes that assure us of quality and safety of our staff and those we serve.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Do you have a strong commitment to delivering equitable, culturally safe and person-centred social work services, particularly for rural, remote and vulnerable communities?
- Are you committed to provide advanced clinical expertise and be confident in managing complex cases, providing consultancy and guiding best-practice decision-making across multidisciplinary teams?
- Do you have a genuine passion for leadership, including mentoring, supervising and developing the capability of social workers and broader health workforce?
- Are you proactive, reflective and evidence-based approach to practice, with a focus on continuous improvement, innovation and high-quality service outcomes?
- Are you a strong collaborator and communicator, with the ability to influence, build partnerships and work effectively across services, sectors and communities?
If you have answered yes to any of these questions - then read on…
HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE?
You will……….
- Provide high-level, specialist social work services across rural and remote settings, including complex case management, clinical consultancy and support for at-risk and priority population groups
- Deliver professional leadership, supervision and guidance to social workers and multidisciplinary teams, supporting best practice, workforce capability and consistent service delivery across the region
- Contribute to service planning, development and evaluation by providing expert advice to management on practice improvement, resource allocation and system redesign
- Lead collaboration with stakeholders including consumers, carers, Aboriginal communities, universities and service partners to ensure culturally safe, client-centred and evidence-based care
- Drive quality improvement, research, reporting and education activities that strengthen service outcomes, workforce development and continuous improvement across the health network
WHAT WILL WE OFFER YOU IN RETURN?
At BHFLHN, not only will you be working in an environment surrounded by beautiful scenery and nature we see your work here as not just as a job, but an opportunity to extend, progress or consolidate your career with us. We therefore offer you opportunities to be supported in the following ways:
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year Click here more information
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities.
- Support for you and your family via our free Employee Assistance Program.
- Health and Fitness Benefits: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to BHFLHN staff and their families.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW/WHAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SUCCESS?
Working in this environment, it is important to us that we only employ people with the upmost integrity and commitment to serving the South Australian community and its visitors to the highest possible standards. To ensure that we meet that commitment there are a few checks that you will be required to undertake. These are detailed on the Role Description, but are likely to include the following:
- You will need to undergo employment screening, what you require is also on the front page of the Role Description.
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We employ people as diverse as the clients we support and the environments we work in. At BHFLHN we pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees and therefore we encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, disability, all genders, and LGBTQI+ community. We continually look for ways to support and promote diversity and flexible ways of working so please let us know what interests you.
NEED TO RELOCATE?
Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. See what is available here: Relocation support | SA Health. Find out more about working in the Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network, and see what it looks like to work and live in regional Australia at: https://movetomore.com.au/ Please speak to the enquiries officer about the support we can provide.
HELP IS HERE!
Please refer to all the details in the Role Description below (job ref: 937186), or reach out to Emily Kschammer, Business Support Coordinator, on 0466 567 801 or via E-mail: emily.kschammer@sa.gov.au
To find out what you need to apply, and what is required to be offered a role, please refer to the Applicant Checklist BHFLHN Applicant Checklist.pdf. Please also click here for our Australian applicant guidelines
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DON’T HESITATE! Applications Close on Wednesday 17th June 2026 at 11.55 PM.
Eligibility: Open to Public Sector Employees Only
Role Description- AHP3 - CHAD Clinical Senior Social Worker.docx
