- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Lyell McEwin Hospital – ELIZABETH VALE SA 5112
- Salary: $112,139 - $120,284 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP3
- Temporary Full-Time – up to 31 October 2027
About the Role:
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit an experienced hospital Senior Social Worker to work in our dynamic, growing and supportive team, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.
At the Lyell McEwin Hospital and Modbury Hospital, the Medical/ Oncology team delivers complex, multi-disciplinary care to people across Adelaide's northern suburbs and beyond. As a Senior Social Worker embedded in this service, you'll bring a clinical depth and genuine human connection to patients and families navigating their health care journey.
Your Role in the Team
Reporting to the Allied Health leadership within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN), you will provide specialist psychosocial assessment, counselling, and care coordination to Medical Oncology patients across inpatient and outpatient settings. This is a full-time across 7 days including working some weekends and public holidays, fixed-term contract through to 31 October 2027.
- Deliver high-quality psychosocial assessments and interventions for patients and their families
- Collaborate within care and multi-disciplinary teams to develop and implement patient-centred care plans
- Provide clinical consultation, supervision, and support to less experienced social work staff and students
- Contribute to service development, quality improvement, and evidence-informed practice within the unit
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated min 5 years experience in medical / oncology social work, or a comparable acute tertiary health setting
- Strong skills in psychosocial assessment, grief and loss counselling, and crisis intervention
- Proven ability to work within and contribute to multi-disciplinary clinical teams
- Familiarity with SA Health frameworks, including the NALHN model of care and relevant legislative requirements
- Experience providing supervision or mentorship to least experienced practitioners and students
- Experience providing child protection, domestic and family violence and elder abuse risk assessments and intervention.
- Proven ability to write a high standard of clinical reports and clinical notes.
To be eligible for this position, you must have an appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
About You:
In this role you will have strong professional interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully critically analyse, problem solve, manage conflicts, mediate, negotiate and advocate, 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 fast paced, demanding and complex changing work environment is essential to this role. Evidence of ongoing relevant professional development and a commitment to Quality Improvement, Data collection and Research is required.
This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.
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 Senior 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 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):
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: 953756
Enquiries:
Allied Health Facilitator
Phone: (08) 8182 9379
E-mail: Health.AlliedHealthFacilitator@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date:
27 November 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
953756 - Senior Social Worker - Medical Oncology - AHP3 - Role Description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.