Social Worker

2 days ago

Kingswood, Australia Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District Full time

**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time
**Position Classification**: Social Worker Level 1/2
**Location**: Nepean Hospital
**Remuneration**: $37.03 - $52.83 per hour
**Hours Per Week**: 24
**Requisition ID**: REQ604859
**Applications Close**: 28/09/2025
- With _**_CORE _**_Values of _**_C_**_ollaboration, _**_O_**_penness, _**_R_**_espect and _**_E_**_mpowerment, working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role._

**About Us**
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.

Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.

We are seeking a compassionate and skilled Social Worker to join our multidisciplinary health care team, where you'll play a vital role in supporting patients through the emotional, psychological, and social challenges of illness and hospitalisation. Social Work in a hospital context focuses on the complex interplay between patients, their external environments, and the treatment process. You will help patients navigate the loss of control and independence that often accompanies hospital admission, fostering their overall well-being through crisis intervention, psychosocial assessment, counselling, advocacy, case management, grief and loss support, and complex discharge planning. Your work will benefit both patients and the organisation by identifying and resolving psychosocial barriers to recovery and smooth transitions through the hospital system.

**Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees**
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.

**What you will bring to the role**
- Degree in Social Work with eligibility for membership of the AASW
- Demonstrated understanding of the psycho
- social impact of unexpected hospitalisation due to illness, accident or trauma
- Experience in working in an acute hospital setting and/ or a medical or physical rehabilitation setting
- Demonstrated ability to complete psychosocial assessments and to formulate and implement appropriate discharge and care plan in a short time frame for patients in an inpatient setting
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- High level of written and oral communication skills

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.

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