Social Worker Level 3

**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time
**Location**:Goulburn
**Position Classification**: Social Worker Level 3
**Remuneration**: $56.69 - $58.52 per hour
**Hours Per Week**: 19
**Requisition ID**: REQ614523
**Applications Close: 26 October 2025**
**Interview Details**:Scheduled within 10 days of closing

**About the Service**
Join Our Team as a Social Worker - Supporting our Community through Compassionate Care.
Are you dedicated to helping patients and their families navigate complex social and emotional challenges?
At Southern our Social Workers play a crucial role in providing holistic support—addressing the social, emotional, and practical needs that impact patient health and recovery. You’ll work closely with medical teams to connect patients with resources and empower them during vulnerable times.
Join us to help build stronger, healthier communities through social support and advocacy.

**Support for**
- Applicants for this position may qualify for the NSW Health Rural Health Workforce Incentives Scheme (RHWIS)
- Working within SNSWLHD
- Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero
- Salary packaging options
- Health and Wellbeing benefits including Fitness Passport, and annual Influenza vaccinations
- A team that values your expertise, invests in your development and supports your lifestyle
- Moving to the area? Visit The Welcome Experience | NSW Government

**What you'll be doing**
The Cancer Care Social Worker is an integral part of the multidisciplinary health care team, providing quality services to Social Work to patients/clients of the SNSW Local Health District in order to meet their health and wellbeing needs.

**Selection Criteria**
- Tertiary qualifications as a Social Worker, with eligibility for membership to the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
- Demonstrated highly proficient written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Extensive specialist Cancer Care Social Worker or broad generalist knowledge, clinical proficiency and ability to work with mínimal supervision, and collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to effectively prioritise and organise own work / caseload across a regional area.
- Demonstrated commitment to professional development, quality improvement and evidence based practice.
- Demonstrated ability to lead planning and evaluation of team activities.
- Demonstrated ability to provide and coordinate staff and student supervision.
- Current unrestricted drivers’ licence and willingness to travel for work purposes. This may involve driving long distances across the Local Health District.

**We look forward to learning more about you and what you can bring to our team**

**Information for applicants**

This is a Category A position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.

Southern NSW Local Health District is dedicated to fostering a child-safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people, aligned with NSW Health’s commitment to implementing the Child Safe Standards. We aim to ensure that children and young people feel safe, supported, and included in their care. All current and prospective staff are expected to prioritise the safety, welfare, and well-being of children and young people, actively working to protect them from harm and abuse.

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