Employment Information
Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until June 2028
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3
Remuneration: $58.95 - $60.86 per hour, plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 20
Requisition ID: REQ668203
Applications close: Sunday, 14 June 2026
Job Title
Senior Social Worker – Sydney Youth Cancer Service – Prince of Wales Hospital
Benefits
* A workplace culture with a foundation that promotes person centred care approaches and staff wellbeing
* Orientation and supported transition into your new role
* Targeted clinical stream education programs affiliated with university partners
* Development pathways that are aimed at career progression
* Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave
* Salary Packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take‐home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing
* Corporate health and fitness program, discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
* Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members
* Discounted Private Health Insurance
The Role
The Senior Social Worker for the Sydney Youth Cancer Service at Prince of Wales Hospital provides specialist psychosocial assessment, intervention, and support to adolescents and young adults with cancer, as well as their families and carers, across all stages of the cancer journey. The role delivers high-quality, patient‐centred social work services in accordance with professional and organisational standards, supports the multidisciplinary team through education and consultancy, and contributes to service development, quality improvement, and consumer engagement initiatives. The Senior Social Worker also plays a key role in crisis support, care coordination, data reporting, and the promotion of culturally sensitive, evidence‐based practice to enhance outcomes for young people affected by cancer.
Where You'll Be Working
Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Service is a Level 6 Tertiary Referral Hospital with an inpatient bed base of 370. Each year the hospital cares for more than 70,000 patients in its Emergency Department and has around 50,000 admissions to inpatient units. POWH offers an outpatient service, rural outreach service and provides more than 900,000 occasions of non‐admitted patient care each year, including innovative virtual models of care.
Selection Criteria
* Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Professionals (State) Award, eligibility for practicing membership of AASW and demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional learning.
* Extensive post graduate clinical experience in social work assessment, crisis intervention and counselling with adolescents and young adults and their support networks across inpatient and outpatient settings, with demonstrated skills relevant to coping with illness, disability and bereavement.
* Sound knowledge of development frameworks and the impact of chronic illness, disability, treatment and hospitalisation on young people, their families and carers.
* Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, throughout all organisational levels.
* Demonstrated ability to provide high level clinical advice, education and support to others in providing service excellence.
* Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature.
* Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes.
* Demonstrated active participation in developing, implementing and reporting on services.
Additional Information for Applicants
We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplaces are welcoming and safe for all employees, irrespective of their unique characteristic including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and social‐economic status. Read about our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy for more information.
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