Senior Social Worker

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time

Location: Katoomba Community Health Centre

Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3

Remuneration: $ $58.52 per hour

Hours Per Week: 16

Requisition ID: REQ592782

Application Close: 29/09/2025

With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,

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 and Blue Mountains and Lithgow Region.

NBMLHD Community Mental Health offers a range of specialised services for children, young people, families and older people, through our community-based services and health centres. Our multidisciplinary health professionals and case managers take a collaborative approach to mental health care by linking with their patients to work together and consult within an environment appropriate to the person's needs.

Are you ready to take on a role that truly challenges and inspires? The Blue Mountains Access Team is searching for a Social Worker with the expertise, resilience, and drive to deliver acute clinical interventions in some of the most complex and critical situations. This isn't just another job, it's a chance to make a profound impact where your advanced practice skills and sharp clinical reasoning are not only valued, but essential.

In this autonomous role, you'll be trusted to navigate high-stakes scenarios with confidence and compassion, applying your professional judgement to tasks that are anything but routine. You'll be a key player in a multidisciplinary team, providing crisis intervention, psychosocial assessments, therapeutic counselling, and advocacy that can change the trajectory of someone's life. From coordinating intricate community care plans to shaping post-discharge support, your work will ripple far beyond the hospital walls.

If you're looking for a role that demands excellence and rewards it with purpose, challenge, and the chance to lead in complex care—this is where you're needed most.

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees

• Accrued Day Off (ADO)
• 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 achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.

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

For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.

What you will bring to the role:

• Minimum a bachelor's degree in social work which provides eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers, or other qualification deemed equivalent by the employer.
• Demonstrated experience working in an acute community setting and extensive knowledge of relevant psychosocial issues. Extensive knowledge of the impact on the individual and family of sudden unplanned acute mental health issues.
• Proven experience in crisis intervention, supportive carer and individual counselling
• Proven ability in applying sound professional knowledge and clinical judgement when performing novel, complex or critical tasks
• Demonstrated capacity to provide clinical supervision
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision and to make clinical decisions within a short timeframe
• Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a team; basic computer skills; proven time management skills; excellent oral and written 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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