Social Worker Level 1/2

**Employment Type**: Temporary Full Time (Up to 26/06/2026)
**Position Classification**: Social Worker Level 1/2
**Location**: Nepean Hospital
**Remuneration**: $37.03 - $52.83 per hour
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ574728
**Applications Close**: 27/05/2025
- 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.

Social Work Department looks at the complex interactions between individuals as patients, their environment outside the hospital, and the treatment process within the hospital setting. The service recognises that illness and admission to hospital involves adjustment within the individual and within his/her relationships with his/her outside world. It is in this context that social work takes a central role in the hospital goal of fostering the psychological, emotional and social well-being of patients. Our Social Work Department provides a service to both the patient and the organization. Our service to patients is in identifying and dealing with psychosocial problems that arise as a result of, or that are contributing to problems in adjusting to the crisis of illness, treatment and hospitalisation.

Our Social Work team works together with a multidiscipline team in identifying and dealing with psychosocial problems that hinder the smooth transition of patients through the hospital treatment system. These two aspects of our service work together toward the paramount goal of patient well-being. If psychosocial problems are resolved then a smooth transition is facilitated, and conversely, a smooth transition will enhance the patient's emotional and social well-being. Out Department, the Social Worker will provide crisis intervention, psychosocial assessment, general counselling, advocacy, case management, therapeutic and grief/loss counselling, and complex discharge planning.

**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 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

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