- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Northern Mental Health Service – Salisbury
- Salary, plus 25% loading plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits:
- $37.68 - $45.99 per hour – AHP1
- $48.56 - $56.25 per hour – AHP2
- Casual, up to 5 April 2027
About the Role:
As a Social Worker within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) Mental Health Services, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care to consumers accessing community-based mental health services. You will provide comprehensive assessment, intervention and care coordination to support recovery and optimise health and wellbeing outcomes for individuals, their families and carers.
At the AHP1 classification you will develop your clinical practice and professional capabilities while working under direct clinical supervision. You will:
- Deliver social work services within a mental health context, including assessment, care planning, intervention and discharge planning
- Apply developing knowledge and skills to support consumers with a range of mental health presentations
- Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary mental health teams to provide coordinated care
- Manage a caseload and respond to routine and some non-routine clinical situations with support
- Participate in professional development, quality improvement activities and service improvement initiatives
At the AHP2 classification, you will apply your clinical experience with greater autonomy to deliver high-quality, evidence-based social work services.
You will:
- Provide comprehensive assessments and interventions for consumers with more complex mental health needs
- Manage a caseload with reduced supervision, including non-routine and complex clinical presentations
- Demonstrate sound clinical reasoning and professional judgement in a mental health setting
- Support and guide less experienced staff, students and allied health assistants
- Contribute to multidisciplinary care planning, service development and quality improvement initiatives within mental health services
About You:
You are a compassionate and motivated Social Worker with a strong interest in mental health, committed to supporting consumers, families and carers through recovery-oriented practice.
You will bring:
- A recognised Social Work qualification with eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers
- Demonstrated ability to undertake comprehensive psychosocial assessments and deliver evidence-based interventions within a mental health setting
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with consumers, carers, multidisciplinary teams and external stakeholders
- The ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary mental health team and contribute to coordinated, consumer-centred care
- Effective time management and organisational skills, with the capacity to manage a clinical caseload in a dynamic service environment
- A commitment to continuous learning, professional development and quality improvement
In addition:
- AHP1 applicants will demonstrate emerging clinical capability and a willingness to learn and grow within a supported mental health environment
- AHP2 applicants will demonstrate more developed clinical experience, sound professional judgement, and the ability to manage more complex presentations with increasing autonomy while supporting others in the team
You will thrive in a fast-paced mental health service, where flexibility, resilience and a commitment to improving consumer outcomes are essential.
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.
NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.
With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.
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:
NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide’s north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.
Lyell McEwin Hospital – the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, 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.
Mental Health Services – adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.
Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services – provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.
Primary Health Care Services – including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.
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 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/an [POSITION TITLE] in NALHN include:
- professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and under the current enterprise agreement staff are also eligible for a Professional Development Allowance and entitled to claim reimbursement of eligible professional development expenses 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.
Check(s):
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
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: 939555
Enquiries:
Mangaljit Johal
Acting Principal Social Worker
Phone: (08) 7485 4300
E-mail: mangaljit.johal@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
12 June 2026 – 11.55PM
