The Team
Are you looking for a role where every day brings variety, meaning, and the chance to make a real impact across diverse communities?
Community Health Social Work North is a dynamic, values-driven team delivering evidence-based, trauma-informed Social Work services across community health centres, district hospitals, and rural and regional communities throughout Northern Tasmania.
Our clinicians work with people experiencing a broad range of health and psychosocial challenges. This requires strong therapeutic counselling skills, sound psychosocial assessment, and the ability to support people through complex issues such as grief and loss, adjustment to illness, trauma, stress, mental health concerns, family and relationship pressures, social isolation, carer stress, and life transitions.
From Launceston to surrounding rural communities, the role offers meaningful variety and the opportunity to build strong therapeutic relationships over time. Our work is deeply connected to place, community, and local context. We value clinicians who understand the importance of local knowledge, strong service relationships, and working alongside communities to provide care that is accessible, responsive, and relevant.
This is a role suited to experienced Social Workers who are confident working with autonomy. Many of our positions operate as the key Social Work presence within a community site or district hospital, requiring the ability to manage complex presentations, make independent decisions, and adapt practice to local need while remaining connected to a supportive professional team.
What sets us apart is our positive team culture. We live our CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. You will have access to peer support, clinical supervision, discipline leadership, and professional development.
The Role
In this role, you will provide Social Work services to individuals, families, groups, and communities within the Launceston area, plus have the opportunity to provide outreach to surrounding regions and district hospitals. Travel during work hours is fully supported, with access to a fleet vehicle.
No two days are the same. Your work may include comprehensive psychosocial assessment, therapeutic counselling, medium to long-term intervention, group facilitation, outreach visits, care coordination, advocacy, community development, and integrated multidisciplinary planning.
You will work with people experiencing a broad range of health, mental health, social, emotional, relational, and practical stressors. This may include supporting people adjusting to illness or life changes, navigating complex systems, managing grief and loss, trauma, stress, family or relationship concerns, social isolation, carer stress, or challenges linked to rurality and limited-service access.
This role requires an experienced clinician who can work confidently with minimal day-to-day supervision, while actively engaging in reflective practice, professional supervision, and team-based collaboration.
You will need
You will be an experienced Social Worker with demonstrated skills in:
- Providing therapeutic counselling, medium to long-term 1:1 Social Work intervention, comprehensive psychosocial assessment, formulation, care planning, and risk-informed practice across a broad range of health-related, psychosocial, emotional, relational, and practical issues.
- Working autonomously with sound clinical judgement in varied community-based, outreach, sole-practitioner, rural and regional settings, while managing complexity, prioritising competing demands, and remaining connected to supervision, peer support, and a broader professional team.
- Building trusted relationships with clients, local communities, multidisciplinary teams, health services, government and non-government agencies, including through advocacy, consultation, system navigation, collaborative care planning, and the design and facilitation of therapeutic or psychoeducational group programs.
Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.
Why Tasmania
The Department of Health Tasmania oversees various hospitals across the state, including the Royal Hobart Hospital, Launceston General Hospital, Northwest Regional Hospital, and Mersey Community Hospital, as well as district hospitals and ambulance services. Additionally, it provides community health, mental health, and primary healthcare services to the Tasmanian community through more than 300 sites.
Tasmania, Australia's only island state, offers unparalleled natural beauty and a luxurious lifestyle. Pursuing your health career in Tasmania’s public health system means building strong connections with colleagues and patients. It also means embracing a lifestyle where you can enjoy extraordinary experiences outside of work while making a significant impact on the community during work.
Details of appointment
Multiple fixed term, part time, day worker positions, working up to 76 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as you can join us for a period of 6 months.
*Notwithstanding hours to be negotiated with the successful applicant.
Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time, part time, and casual vacancies.
Salary
$117,272 to $126,182 pro rata per annum. Our Employer 12% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount.
- Salary range is in accordance with Allied Health Professionals Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement 2025.
Salary Packaging
You’ll have access to salary package a range of benefits including living expenses up to $9,010 + $2,650 in meal entertainment each FBT year + other benefits if eligible.
Allowances
- Please note that access to salaries beyond $119,290 is subject to qualifications and/or application to the personal upgrade scheme
In addition, the following allowances calculated on the salaried incremental point may be available:
- Professional Development Allowance of up to $1000 per annum
Benefits available to eligible candidates
- Travel and relocation assistance support available up to $10,000 for appointees from interstate.
- Professional development and accelerated pathways.
- A range of leave entitlements, including study leave and Professional Development Support.
- Fitness Passport – You, and your family can access 40+ fitness facilities across Tasmania for just $14.50 per week per person, or $28.05 for a family.
More information about our Employee Benefits can be found here
Eligibility
Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria.
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Tertiary qualification/program of study approved by the Australian Association of Social Workers
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Eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
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Overseas qualified Social Work candidates require a “certification of eligibility” letter from the AASW to confirm their eligibility for membership to the AASW
Or where regulatory requirements exist, NDIS Q&S Commission Provider Registration Requirements
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Full member of Australian Association of Social Workers
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Current Driver’s Licence.
Applicants should note the following criteria are desirable:
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a practising social worker in a relevant field.
Note: - Please refer to the Application Guide for more information of pre-employment check.
Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents
We encourage you to review the Statement of Duties, Applicant Guide, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and application guidance.
Statement of Duties:
Application Guide:
How to apply
Apply Online. Please click the "Apply" button on this screen to ensure that important questions about you are answered.
You will be prompted to complete a 1-2 page application detailing your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties. A separate statement addressing the selection criteria in the Statement of Duties is not required.
*applications from Recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this role
For more information
Applicants who require further information are encouraged to contact the Contact person for detailed information about the vacancy.
Name: Reannah Douglas
Position: Principal Social Worker
Phone number: (03) 6777 1427
Email address: reannah.douglas@ths.tas.gov.au
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