AHP2 - Social Worker Truancy

Overview

Department for Education

Job reference: 695734

Location: 5608 - WHYALLA NORRIE, 5700 - PORT AUGUSTA

Job status: Short Term Contract

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

About The Role

The Student Support Services (SSS) team works with schools and preschools to assist them to support the strengths, opportunities and additional needs of learners. This service is time-limited and based on identified and agreed upon goals, recorded in a service plan. The nature and level of support is tailored to each site's needs.

The trend of increasing learner complexity is well documented in the literature. Children and young people may have experienced violence, abuse or other trauma and live within a complex family dynamic. Increasing numbers of children and young people are being identified with complex learning difficulties and disabilities often with co-existing conditions such as autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Increasing numbers of children are in schools who have difficulties arising from premature birth, have survived infancy due to advances in medical interventions, have rare neurological disorders and foetal alcohol syndrome. Behavioural issues are becoming increasingly more challenging and complex with a range of co-morbidity factors (including mental health) that require skills and expertise to identify underlying causes to better address the needs of the children and young people.

The Social Worker - Truancy is a member of an inter-disciplinary team and works with children and young people with truancy, attendance, engagement and retention issues and their families. The Social Worker works with preschool and school staff, and parents to develop evidence-based interventions that include proactive, targeted and intensive strategies that can be adapted for learning and home contexts. This position works with the professional support of the Senior Social Worker.

Student Support Services are on a cultural response journey, as such we value and prioritise Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with schools, preschools, staff and families to develop and implement interventions addressing attendance, engagement and retention issues.
• Co-design evidence-based strategies tailored to each learner's needs within service plans.
• Work within an inter-disciplinary team under the supervision of the Senior Social Worker.
• Support cultural responsiveness and incorporate Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing and being in practice.

Qualifications

• Essential: An appropriate degree or equivalent which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
• Desirable: Nil.

Special Conditions

• The successful applicant is required to gain a Department for Human Services (DHS) working with children check (WWCC) prior to being employed, which must be renewed every five years before expiry.
• The incumbent will be required to undertake RRHAN–EC (Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect - Education Care) Facilitator Lead (Masterclass) extended course or the online (Fundamentals) course, updated every three years.
• For all other Special Conditions, refer to the attached Position Description.

Remuneration

AHP2 $88,255 - $102,240 per annum (1.0 FTE) + superannuation (12%)

Enquiries

Enquiries can be directed to Sonja Tilbrook, Senior Social Worker (Truancy), via tel: 0448 650 165 or email: sonja.tilbrook3@sa.gov.au

Application Instructions

Applications should be made through the IWorkForSA website. Applicants are required to submit a CV, the Application Cover Sheet, Employment Declaration, and a cover letter of no more than two pages addressing the key competencies in the attached position description.

Additional Notes

People of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and/or those who have a disability are strongly encouraged to apply.

Multiple full-time and part-time positions are available until 30 June 2026 (2.0 FTE).

Applications close

17/09/2025 11:30 PM

Flexibility

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.

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