Social Worker (Lvl 3) - Senior Clinican - Temp FT
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Employment Type: Temporary Full Time, 38 hours per week, up until November 2025
Location: Bankstown- Lidcombe Hospital
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3
Remuneration: $2,154.06 - $2,223.86 per week
Requisition ID: REQ597843
Application Close Date: 31/08/2025
Interview Date Range: 03/09/2025 - 10/09/2025
Contact Details: Leah Drake | (02) 9722 7174 | Leah.Drake@health.nsw.gov.au
Please note: A current influenza (flu) vaccination is a mandatory requirement for appointment to this position
About The Opportunity
Make a Lasting Impact as a Senior Social Worker - Level 3
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Clinician - Social Worker Level 3 to join our dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will lead the delivery of advanced psychosocial assessments, counselling, advocacy, and support for consumers and their carers, ensuring care is evidence-based, ethical, and person-centred.
As a Senior Member Of The Team, You Will
* Exercise high-level professional judgement in complex clinical cases.
* Drive continuous quality improvement, service innovation, and best practice initiatives.
* Provide expert mentorship, clinical supervision, and education for staff, students, and multidisciplinary colleagues.
* Build strong collaborative relationships with other service providers to ensure seamless, holistic care.
* Model organisational values and foster a culturally respectful, inclusive, and supportive environment.
Your expertise will help shape the future of our service, ensuring that consumers and their carers receive the highest standard of care. If you're passionate about leadership, clinical excellence, and making a genuine difference in people's lives, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Be Doing
This position is responsible for providing specialist Social Work service to consumers and their carers to ensure the provision of optimal health outcomes consistent with SWSLHD policies and procedures, standards, relevant legislation, and the NSW Health Code of Conduct. The position will also participate in professional development, clinical supervision, teaching, quality activities and other relevant departmental and administrative duties at the NSW Refugee Health Service (RHS). The position will function as part of a multidisciplinary team and will be based at Liverpool BC but have home visiting capacity across metropolitan Sydney.
Where You'll Be Working
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is located in the city of Bankstown and is in one of the most multicultural local government areas (LGA) in Australia. This hospital has tertiary affiliations with three universities and offers a range of roles and experiences to employees.
The hospital receives highly diverse presentations in ED as well as having general medical and surgical services and sub-specialty services across the hospital. Working at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is a truly rewarding experience which allows you to make a real difference to the multicultural community.
Being part of the team at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital means you will be a part of a friendly and enthusiastic group of people where you will be truly valued in your work. Being a smaller hospital, you are seen as part of the wider Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital Family where you are known to the other staff and your patients.
Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital is like no other in our district and offers unmatched career development and progression opportunities and the hospital focuses on regular training and upskilling. There are regular occasions for working in more senior role and you will have a great management team who dedicate themselves to providing safe, quality patient care through ensuring they have a cohesive and dynamic team.
How To Apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible. View our application guide for information on how to respond to criteria and improve your application.
* Extensive post graduate experience working as a Social Worker in relevant clinical areas, including a demonstrated understanding of the health setting, complex health conditions and the impact on wellbeing.
* Demonstrated experience in prioritising a challenging and demanding workload; managing stressful situations; and applying advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel or critical nature.
* Experience working independently and collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.
* Demonstrated high level communication skills (written and verbal), and demonstrated computer skills.
* Demonstrated experience in the provision of clinical supervision and expert advice/consultation to the social work service and the clinical specialty.
* Demonstrated experience in the planning, implementing, leading and evaluating of quality improvement activities involving the application of evidenced based practice within social work.
* Demonstrated understanding and commitment to social justice, and to the issues of access and equity in health.
* Applicants must possess an Australian C-Class driver's license (including P1 or P2). Those who hold a C class license (P1 or P2 included) from a state other than NSW must obtain a NSW C class (P1 or P2 included) license within three months of appointment. Learner's licenses are not permitted.
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Additional Information
Salary Packaging
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees are able to enjoy the benefits of salary packing. Visit Smart Salary for more details.
Health & Fitness
South Western Sydney Local Health District employees receive discounted Gym Membership/Corporate Wellbeing Programs, including Fitness Passport.
Transforming Your Experience
Transforming Your Experience (TYE) is SWSLHDs key strategy to always positively transform your, our patients, our consumers, our staffs and our communities experiences across our organisation and services. Our vision is that our care is always safe, high quality and personalised and all our staff are supported and empowered to achieve their full potential. SWSLHD upholds the CORE Values - Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.
To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
At South Western Sydney Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don't just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of ???? Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander ???? background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
SWSLHD is committed to driving a child safe culture that upholds children and young people's rights. We strive to ensure children and young people feel safe, supported and included in their care. Existing staff of SWSLHD and those seeking employment are required to take the safety, welfare and wellbeing of children and young people seriously while taking action to keep them safe from harm and abuse.
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