Senior Social Worker

2 weeks ago


Adelaide, South Australia SA Health Full time
About the Opportunity

An exciting opportunity exists within the 3D Health Team to join us as a Senior Social Worker for Neurodevelopmental Disability, working full-time until May 2025.

The Senior Social Worker:

  • Provides clinical expertise for parents, students, and their families, with neurodevelopmental disability and complex needs, and/or associated behaviors of concern.
  • Primarily provides direct expert care for an individual or group of clients and clinical leadership to multidisciplinary staff.
  • Contributes to improvement in the quality, safety, and community needs-driven within a specific service area.
  • Works with the multidisciplinary team and other stakeholders on service delivery development and practice requirements to meet client needs and demands.
  • Has accountability for delivering culturally appropriate, equitable, comprehensive, high-quality social work services for clients referred to 3D Health across the state of South Australia.
  • Educates, guides, and clinically supervises assigned social work staff and social work students.
About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

  • Experience working with clients with complex psychosocial needs, disability, and behaviors of concern.
  • Demonstrated ability to carry out assessments and interventions of a highly complex nature using a range of theoretical models in assessment, intervention, and therapy.
  • A high level of interpersonal skills with the ability to demonstrate ability to analyze and resolve complex clinical problems.
  • Demonstrated ability to undertake a range of social work interventions including high-quality written psychosocial assessments, advocacy, therapeutic support, and case management/care coordination.
  • Advanced knowledge in at least one area of clinical practice relevant to disability/complex health and/or behaviors of concern.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the theory and practice of clinical work within the individual's professional specialty area, including group work.
About Us

The Women's and Children's Health Network's 3D Health offers support to young people living with disability or complex health needs. Support is also provided to parents and carers, and community services.

3D Health includes:

  • Access Assistant Program
  • Encompass
  • Health Education Interface
  • Home Equipment Centre
  • Home Oxygen Service
  • MyTime

The Women's & Children's Health Network is the state's leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children, and young people across South Australia.

We offer:

  • Specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
  • State-of-the-art maternity and obstetric care services
  • Community-based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children, and young people, their families, and communities across SA
  • Specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth, and Aboriginal Health services.


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