Social Worker

**Job no**: 910816
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Northern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Modbury Hospital - Modbury**:

- **Salary/Total Indicative Remuneration**: $68,478 - $102,240 p.a.**plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits**:

- **AHP1/2 - Ongoing - Full-Time**

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) are eager to recruit two Social Workers to join our dedicated team at our brand-new Modbury Mental Health Rehab Unit, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.

**About the Role**:

- The Modbury Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit offers contemporary, evidence based, and high-quality rehabilitation services. The multidisciplinary team play a key role in delivering person centred, trauma informed care within a collaborative environment. The MMHRU delivers rehabilitation services that are compassionate, solution focused, promoting skill development, social inclusion, and supporting consumers to achieve their recovery goals. Staff work in close connection with both Wondakka (Community Rehabilitation Centre) and The Gully services, supporting mental health rehabilitation service innovation and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and co-design.

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia.
- AHP 1 - As a developing practitioner, you'll work under direct clinical supervision, implement established care plans, and deliver evidence-based social work interventions. You'll participate in therapeutic groups, assist with discharge planning and community linkages, and contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings while building your clinical expertise in mental health rehabilitation and recovery-oriented practice.
- AHP2 - In this autonomous role, you'll conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments, develop individualised treatment plans, and lead complex case management interventions. You'll facilitate therapeutic groups independently, provide clinical supervision to junior staff, contribute to service development initiatives, and collaborate extensively with psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, and allied health professionals in discharge planning and family education programs.- To be eligible for this position, you must have an Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

**About You**:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Social Worker looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

**About Us**:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality medical services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care. Recently, NALHN has upgraded its facilities and plans to expand further. The network provides primary health care with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management. With nearly 6,500 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.

Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways.

Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:
“My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care.”

“I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service.”

“I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support.”

**Benefits of working at NALHN**:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

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