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Build Your Social Work Career with SALHN — Marion Psychosis Team

Join SALHN's Marion Psychosis team as a Social Worker (AHP1/2) and deliver recovery-oriented, psychosocial support to adults living with psychotic illness across Adelaide's southern suburbs. Working within a close-knit multidisciplinary team at one of South Australia's leading local health networks, you'll carry a meaningful caseload while benefiting from strong clinical supervision and ongoing professional development. This is a full-time, ongoing role that offers real career stability, SA Health salary packaging benefits, and the chance to make a genuine difference in your community.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Team Manager, this role is responsible for the delivery of a range of clinical activities, including mental health and psychosocial assessments, risk assessments, treatment and care planning, therapeutic interventions, advocacy and liaison with other community service providers.

Duties for the role will include:

• Developing, implementing and evaluating specific social work therapeutic interventions e.g. individual counselling, family interventions, crisis intervention, brief therapy and focused psychological strategies,
• With support, developing and delivering therapeutic groups for consumers and family/carers,
• Undertaking health promotion activities e.g. developing and implementing educational services as required,
• Disseminating information on rights, benefits and services as required,
• Undertaking a clinical case load and providing individual care coordination to consumers with complex and specialised needs utilising discipline-specific expertise,
• Undertaking assessments, risk assessments and interventions to increase a consumer’s functional capacity,
• Evaluating the progress made with each consumer, and when appropriate, facilitating transfer of care in a timely manner

About you:

• An appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers,
• Ability to provide core social work skills including psychosocial assessment, counselling, individual and group work, relationship and family interventions, crisis intervention and brief therapy,
• Must be highly motivated and have the ability to engage with consumers who have very high service needs,
• Ability to undertake comprehensive assessment skills including, consumer needs analysis, assessment skills in mental state and risk assessment,
• Ability to work collaboratively with consumers, families, carers, other agencies and community services to implement Treatment and Care Plans and coordinate comprehensive service provision for consumers who have enduring and complex needs,
• Experience working with people who have a mental illness, their families and/or carer,
• Experience in collaborative development, implementation and monitoring of planned interventions for consumers of mental health services with complex needs

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

This is a single vacancy, with two possible appointment classifications. The successful applicants will be appointed in the position appropriate to their skills, qualifications, and experience.

Want To Know More? Contact: Rebecca Dow, Social Worker, 7425 8520, Rebecca.Dow@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 28 June 2026

Attachments:

• AHP2 Social Worker- Role Description
• AHP1 Social Worker- 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: 942256