Team Leader, Social Work

**Description**

**Employment Type** - Temporary, Full Time Position (12 months)

**Classification** -Health Professional 4

**Title**:

- Team Leader, Social Work - Medical and Surgical

**Position Number**: 602406

**Salary**- $125,344 - $139,120 (Plus Super) pro rata

**Location** - North Canberra Hospital Bruce, ACT

**Section** - Social Work and Phycology

**Closing Dat**e - 12th August 2025

**What can we offer you**:

- City living without the traffic - click her to see why you should live in Canberra.
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions.

**About the Hospital**:
North Canberra Hospital (formerly Calvary Public Hospital Bruce) and Clare Holland House are now run and operated by Canberra Health Services (CHS)

This is a significant milestone as the ACT Government moves towards delivering a new billion-dollar hospital on Canberra’s Northside.

The current North Canberra Hospital is a level 4 hospital that provides a range of acute and sub-acute services including community based care to the residents of the northside of Canberra and Southern NSW. North Canberra Hospital (NCH) is a 270 bed public hospital located in Canberra’s expanding northside. North Canberra Hospital operates a 24 hour Emergency Department. Inpatient services include general medicine, surgery, maternity, mental health and critical care.

Other service modalities include day surgery, specialist outpatient clinics, Hospital in the Home and the Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation service that reaches into aged care facilities across the ACT.

The new Northside Hospital will be built on the existing Calvary Hospital campus in Bruce. It will be a modern, state-of-the-art hospital for patients, visitors and its workforce and will provide more beds and increased services. Until then, it's business as usual at the NCH, and we'll keep providing high-quality care to our patients and community.

**About the role**:
The Social Work and Psychology Department is a contemporary evidence-based service providing high quality inpatient and outpatient care at North Canberra Hospital. The Department provides care and support to patients and families across critical and acute inpatient areas and specialised outpatients settings, including medical and surgical areas, intensive care unit, the emergency department, maternity and hospital in the home.

As team leader Medical and Surgical you will provide clinical leadership, supervision of and guidance to your social work team to provide a high-quality social work service to medical and surgical patients of North Canberra Hospital. You will have day to day oversight of your team, providing support and specialist clinical advice, problem solving, education and intervention. You will hold a small case load providing social work assessment and psychosocial interventions.

You will form an integral part of the Social Work and Psychology Department leadership team, supporting the management and development of the Department. You will be required to oversee professional development and supervision, promote and have opportunities to participate in quality improvement and research initiatives.

Clinical supervision and professional development are provided through team and department structures and informal and formal professional development opportunities are available.

Note: This position(s) may be required to participate in on call rosters, including weekends and to work Christmas shutdown periods. This duty statement outlines a range of possible duties that staff are expected to perform at this level. The emphasis placed on each duty will vary according to the requirements of each position.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the **_Position Description_**_._

**How to apply**:

- Applications must include a copy of a current CV and details for at least 2 professional referees.
- A maximum two page pitch outlining your skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this role. You should take into consideration the selection criteria when drafting your response. **This document is required and must be submitted to be considered for the role.**
- Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Comply with CHS Credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.
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- A merit pool may be established from this recruitment process and will be used for the next 12 months to fill various positions both on a temporary and permanent basis with