Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Social Worker Lvl 1/2
Remuneration: 76364 - 108943 - full time equivalent base salary range (+12% super + 17.5% leave loading and salary packaging)
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ664959
Location: Randwick
Applications Close: Midnight 7 June 2026
For role related queries or questions contact: Maria Coelho on [email protected]
At the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, every role helps children and young people live their healthiest lives.
As the largest paediatric health service in Australia, we care for thousands of children each year, in hospital and at home. Our people are united by compassion, collaboration and excellence in care.
Exciting opportunities currently exist to join the Social Work Department at Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick as a Paediatric Social Worker. There are 2 permanent full-time positions available. The roles involve working with highly skilled specialist paediatric teams providing specialist chronic and acute medical care to children from across NSW and beyond. The social worker is well supported by the social work department, with opportunities for professional development, training, and clinical supervision. Professional debriefing and support are offered in relation to clinical work.
What you'll be doing
The primary focus of the position is to provide a comprehensive social work service to children, young people and their families referred from the relative clinical area. This includes the provision of psychosocial assessments, counselling and advocacy. The service includes individual, family and group work and program development. The social worker is an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team.
Additional Benefits (for eligible employees): Flexible work opportunities, Salary packaging and meal entertainment benefits, accrued days off (ADOs), fitness passport, employee assistance program (EAP)
How to Apply:
Click ‘Apply Online’ and submit your application including:
- Eligibility for AASW membership preferably with post graduate experience in social work practice with families and children and/or in health context.
- Demonstrated skills in crisis intervention, assessment and counselling and a commitment to evidence based practice.
- Understanding of the issues facing children and their families when confronted with illness and disability and possessing knowledge of the relevant community support services.
- Demonstrated capacity to build professional and therapeutic relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal and written communication skills
- Capacity to share after hours and weekend on call duties.
- Competent computer skills and ability to adapt to new IT systems.
