Social Worker

**Job no**: 901531
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Adelaide CBD
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Salary: AHP2 - $88,255 - $102,240 p.a. + Superannuation & Salary Sacrifice Benefits**:

- **Adelaide SA, 5000**:

- **Full Time, Permanent Role working 18.75 hours per week up to 12 months**

**About the Role**

Join the CALHN Integrated Care Refugee Health Service and make a lasting difference in the lives of refugee and asylum seeker communities. Our service is dedicated to ensuring timely and equitable access to holistic health care, recognising the impacts of trauma, forced migration, and resettlement challenges on individuals and families. As an AHP2 Social Worker, you will use your mental health expertise to deliver trauma-informed, client-centred care that promotes psycho-social wellbeing and supports successful community integration.

In this rewarding role, you will:

- **Support refugee communities through holistic, client-centred care**
- **Use your mental health skills to create positive, lasting outcomes**
- **Work within a passionate team focused on advocacy and wellbeing**

You will provide assessment, counselling, consultation, and education services, drawing on organisational and community resources to achieve the best outcomes for patients, families, and carers. You will also contribute to quality improvement and service development initiatives within a collaborative and supportive environment.

**About You**

You are a passionate and experienced Social Worker, committed to delivering trauma-informed, client-centred care that supports diverse communities and promotes long-term wellbeing.
- You hold a degree-level qualification in Social Work with eligibility for membership with the relevant regulatory agency, and demonstrate strong skills in psychosocial assessment, care planning, trauma-informed interventions, and complex clinical decision-making.
- You bring significant experience in health care settings, working with individuals impacted by trauma, chronic disease, and social disadvantage, along with a background in project development, evaluation, and supervision of staff or students.
- You demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to work with interpreters, support culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) clients, and collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
- You have comprehensive knowledge of social work theories, trauma-informed therapeutic models, gender-specific and CALD health issues, and the social determinants of health across diverse populations.

**About CALHN**

The Central Adelaide Local Health Network includes South’s Australia’s major quaternary facility, the Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, and the Repat Health Precinct. We also deliver mental health services at Glenside Health Services and at a range of other locations across the metropolitan and regional areas.

We’re looking for talented staff to join us and help us to shape the future of health through world-class care and world-class research and achieve our vision of being in the top 50 health services in the world and top 5 in Australia.

**Benefit of Joining CALHN**

At CALHN, we're dedicated to your career satisfaction and wellbeing, offering tailored benefits for healthcare professionals, including:

- **Salary Attractions**: Flexible options for salary packaging covering living expenses, meal and entertainment allowances, and novated leasing.
- **Annual Leave**: Enjoy paid recreation leave for essential rejuvenation, with leave loading applied.
- **Flexible Work Arrangements**: 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.
- **Health and Fitness Benefits**: Access to Fitness Passport, a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to CALHN staff and their families.
- **Career Opportunities**: Explore career growth within the SA Health system with opportunities for skill development and movement across various metropolitan and regional sites.
- **Employee Assistance Program**: Confidential counselling and support services are available via our Employee Assistance Program.

Join CALHN for a fulfilling career bolstered by comprehensive benefits and unwavering commitment to your success.

**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

**Application Information**:

- Please refer to the role description for essential educational/vocational qualifications that may be required.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Job ref: 901531

**Enquiries to**:
Jan Williams, Team Manager

Phone: 08 71339770

**Application Closing Date**

11:55 pm Thursday 24th July 2025

**Refer to the SA Health Career Website