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MedicalJobsAustralia.com Senior Social Worker

Job no: 942269

Work type: Full time

Located in: Adelaide Metro Southern

Categories: Administration, Business and Management, Mental Health, Public Health, Communication, Engagement, Media and Marketing

Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - Oaklands Park- Psychosis Team

Salary $112,139 - $120,284 p.a. (Pro Rata) AHP3 | Ongoing Full Time Position

AHP3 Senior Social Worker | Specialised Psychosis Care!

Join SA Health's Marion Psychosis team as an AHP3 Senior Social Worker, where you'll provide specialised interventions for individuals experiencing psychosis and their families at Flinders Medical Centre. This full-time ongoing position offers the opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary mental health team, delivering person-centred care and contributing to innovative service development. Make a meaningful impact in mental health while advancing your career with South Australia's largest healthcare employer.

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:

Providing professional supervision to AHP1 and AHP2 Social Workers, and other nominated clinicians and students in the Team - area,

Actively participating in professional supervision,

Working collaboratively with other senior clinicians and the Principal Social Worker to address profession-specific issues and identified professional development needs,

Co-ordinating educational activities for students on professional placements across the sector,

Providing social work specific assessments and therapeutic interventions including individual counselling, family interventions, crisis intervention, brief therapy and focused psychological strategies,

Promoting environmental interventions to enhance the consumer's resilience within the community and optimise social functioning,

Providing and promoting a strengths-based recovery approach in the delivery of services,

Undertaking care coordination of an allocated caseload,

Undertaking high quality assessments (including bio-psychosocial assessment, mental state examination and risk assessment) and planning recovery focussed services for consumers referred to the service

About you:

An appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers,

Advanced skills in undertaking a comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessment including risk assessments of consumers presenting with high or complex needs,

Clinical skills appropriate to the area of individual counselling, group work, family therapy and focused psychological strategies,

Knowledge and experience of evidence based theoretical frameworks relevant to the field of mental health (such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Family Therapy, Safety Planning-Relapse Prevention, and the Recovery Model),

Effective leadership skills including highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation skills,

Minimum of 3 years' experience in a current clinical mental health setting,

Demonstrated competence in all the competency standards for social workers working in mental health

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Claire Gallagher, Team Manager, 08 7425 8583,

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 26th July 2026

Attachments:

AHP3 Senior Social Worker Marion Psychosis- Role Description

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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. 942269

Advertised: 10 Jul 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time

Applications close: 26 Jul 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time

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