Job no: 945084
Work type: Part time
Location: Adelaide Metro Southern
Categories: Allied and Scientific Health, Community and Social Services, Child, Aged and Disability Care, Public Health
Southern Adelaide Local Health Network – Repat Health Precinct – Social Work
Salary $112,139 - $120,284 p.a. (Pro Rata) AHP3| Part Time, Ongoing Position, 22.5 Hours Per Week
Travel between multiple RAP sites may be required including Repat, Flinders & Noarlunga hospitals.
Experienced Social Worker in Disability & NDIS:
Lead the difference for Patients across Southern Adelaide
This part-time, ongoing Principal Social Worker role at Southern Adelaide Local Health Network puts you at the forefront of Disability and NDIS practice across three of Adelaide's major hospital sites at Flinders Medical Centre, Repatriation Health Precinct and Noarlunga Hospital. You'll bring advanced clinical expertise to complex cases while guiding and developing the broader social work team's NDIS capability. If you're an experienced Social Worker ready to lead meaningful change for patients navigating disability support within a hospital setting, this is a role with real scope and purpose.
About the role:
Reporting to the Director, this role is responsible for ensuring that long stay complex patients of the Division of Rehabilitation, Aged Care and Palliative Care (RAP) are managed in a timely and effective manner
Duties for the role will include:
Providing consultation, supervision, performance monitoring and professional development for social work staff,
Monitoring workloads and assisting with social work service provision during periods of high demand,
Developing and maintaining systems for early identification of complex potentially long stay patients in the Division of RAP (particular focus on < 65 year olds),
Identifying barriers to discharge from hospital and working to resolve these barriers in partnership with staff both internal and external to the hospital,
Maintaining Social Work processes to ensure they are consistent with current hospital and community demand/processes and professional practice guidelines
About you:
A degree in Social Work that entitles the individual to membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers,
Demonstrated ability to provide supervision and training to other social work staff,
Demonstrated ability to negotiate and develop a range of partnerships, networks and relationships with key stakeholders within and external to the organisation,
Demonstrated ability to think and work strategically, proactively and independently to develop creative and effective solutions to problems and manage change,
Demonstrated high level of oral and written communications skills and the ability to develop reports, proposals and presentations,
Extensive experience working as a Social Worker within a Hospital Setting,
Extensive experience in providing clinical management to complex and difficult cases and transitions,
Extensive experience working with the National Disability Insurance Agency
Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.
Want To Know More? Contact: Emma Phillips, Director of Social Work, 0478 282 786,
[email protected]
Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 9 August 2026
Attachments:
Principal Social Worker - Disability Liaison Role Description
Australian applicant guidelines
International applicant guidelines
Applicant Information:
We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref: 945084
Advertised: 28 Jul 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 09 Aug 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time
