You trained for years to earn your accreditation. Here you actually get to use it. Veterans living with complex chronic conditions, comorbid mental health needs, and no one holding the whole picture together. That is the work here.
As a Mental Health Accredited Social Worker with Veteran Pathways (part of the Proactive Health Group), you are the mental health voice in a GP-led case conferencing team. You will run VHP intake assessments, bring your clinical formulation to the conference table, shape the care plan alongside the treating GP, then carry the therapeutic work yourself where a veteran wants ongoing support. Assessment and treatment. Not one or the other.
And you will do it from our brand new head office in the heart of Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. Where a genuine multidisciplinary team is behind you, and clinical supervision built to help you grow. If you have been craving mental health work that goes beyond crisis and beyond the single session, consider this your sign.
Proactive Health Group is a national allied health network built around one idea: get people the right support for their health, wherever they are. We began with veterans and grew from there. Today, through Veteran Pathways (DVA-funded) and Proactive Care (Medicare-funded), we deliver GP-led, coordinated care to veterans and the wider community alike.
Our model is simple, and it works. Clients get advice, get a plan, and get ongoing support, with a GP and allied health team wrapped around each person. From veteran roots to national reach, Proactive Health connects local communities with proven health programs under a values-led model of trust, care and evidence.
As a Mental Health Accredited Social Worker, you are the mental health expertise inside our multidisciplinary case conferencing team. You will deliver everything by telehealth from a private, confidential setting, working with veterans who carry complex chronic health conditions alongside significant mental health and psychosocial needs.
Your week has real shape to it. You will conduct clinical VHP intake assessments, identifying each veteran's presenting concerns, clinical needs and barriers to care. Those findings become the basis for the case conference discussion. You will then sit in scheduled telehealth case conferences led by a GP, contributing your assessment findings, risk formulation and treatment recommendations alongside allied health colleagues and community services.
Case conferencing runs in blocks, with around 22 patient reviews across an eight-hour session. It is focused, collegial work, and your clinical voice carries weight in the room.
Where a veteran identifies that they want ongoing mental health support, you provide it as the treating clinician within your AASW Mental Health Accreditation scope. Mental health assessment, treatment planning, evidence-based therapeutic intervention, and the satisfaction of watching someone progress over time.
At 90 days, you review the veteran health plan, administer and interpret outcome measures, and bring updated clinical information back to a further case conference with the GP and team. Longitudinal care, properly resourced. You will have real clinical autonomy that grows as you do, backed by a Practice Lead – Social Work who is there when you need them.
GP-led multidisciplinary case conferencing
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Participating in scheduled telehealth case conferences with GPs, allied health professionals and community services.
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Bringing your clinical input on mental health assessment findings, risk factors, treatment recommendations and ongoing management.
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Liaising with treating practitioners before and after each conference so agreed strategies actually get implemented.
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Supporting a shared care approach, and keeping communication clear between providers so continuity holds.
Clinical assessment and care coordination
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Conducting VHP intake assessments via telehealth, identifying clinical needs, presenting concerns and barriers to care.
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Compiling and communicating your findings to the treating GP and team as the basis for case conference discussion.
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Recommending referral pathways, support services and treatment options based on clinical priority.
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Completing care coordination consultations so VHP recommendations translate into completed referrals.
Ongoing mental health treatment
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Providing ongoing therapeutic support as the treating MHASW, within your AASW Mental Health Accreditation scope.
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Conducting mental health assessments, developing treatment plans, and delivering evidence-based interventions.
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Monitoring progress and adapting your approach as the clinical picture changes.
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Providing patient education on mental health, self-management and available supports.
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Identifying clinical deterioration, escalating risk, and actioning referrals.
90-day reviews
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Reviewing the veteran health plan at 90 days to assess clinical progress and engagement with care.
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Administering and interpreting outcome measures across clinical status, functional capacity and wellbeing.
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Identifying veterans who need step-up support, specialist referral or revised care planning, and saying so.
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Compiling updated clinical information to inform the next case conference.
Chronic disease management
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Supporting veterans managing complex chronic conditions with comorbid mental health and psychosocial needs.
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Contributing social work and mental health expertise to multidisciplinary chronic disease care plans.
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Applying intervention and treatment planning for psychosocial issues.
Professional practice
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Documenting cleanly and on time, in line with AASW standards, DVA requirements and Veteran Pathways procedures.
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Working to the AASW Code of Ethics and the Practice Standards for Mental Health Social Workers.
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Engaging in supervision, and thinking critically about your own practice.
Requirements
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Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) or Master of Social Work (MSW) from an AASW-accredited program.
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Current AASW membership.
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AASW Mental Health Accreditation — Accredited Mental Health Social Worker (AMHSW) credential.
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Ability to maintain AMHSW CPD requirements (minimum 30 hours per annum, including 20 hours in the mental health domain).
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Experience working with patients with chronic disease, complex health conditions, or mental health needs.
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Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary or shared care team.
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Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including experience in telehealth environments.
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Effective organisational and time management skills.
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Satisfactory National Police Check, provided prior to commencement.
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A private, confidential space from which to deliver telehealth consultations.
Benefits
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$110,000 and above per annum plus superannuation dependent on experience.
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Work from our H/Q, full telehealth — easy commute, no clinic-room politics.
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Flexible arrangements that respect your life outside work.
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Genuine clinical autonomy — you assess, you formulate, you treat.
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A real multidisciplinary team — GPs, physiotherapy, podiatry, exercise physiology, dietetics and occupational therapy. You are never carrying a veteran on your own.
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Structured clinical supervision with the Practice Lead – Social Work, and monthly case reviews to sharpen your practice.
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AASW on-demand CPD included, through our business partnership with the AASW. Maintain your 30 hours, including your 20 in the mental health domain, without funding it yourself.
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Career progression into senior and clinical lead roles as the service scales.
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Supportive leadership that backs your clinical judgement.
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Meaningful work with veterans — outcomes you can actually see, person by person.
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Quality over quantity — caseloads built around good care, not call speed.
WHY THIS ROLE IS DIFFERENT
Most mental health social work roles ask you to choose. Assess or treat. Crisis or continuity. Sit in the team or sit beside it.
This role asks for all of it. You will work inside an integrated, GP-led shared care model where medical and psychosocial care genuinely talk to each other, and where your formulation shapes the care plan rather than getting filed alongside it. You will case-conference with colleagues across seven disciplines. You will follow the same veteran from intake through treatment to their 90-day review, and you will see what changed.
It is mental health treatment, not crisis triage. It is longitudinal, not single-session. It is veteran-focused work with real clinical weight, inside a national organisation that is still building. There is room here to influence patient outcomes and to grow your career as the service scales.
READY TO APPLY?
If you have read this far, you are probably our kind of clinician. Bring your accreditation, your clinical head and your telehealth confidence, and we will bring the team, the tools and the flexibility to do your best work. Hit apply, and let's get to know each other. We would love to meet you.
At Proactive Health we truly have adopted new technology to aid our business and efficiencies, however we can guarantee that each of the applications for this role will be reviewed by a human as we believe that the effort it took to apply should be mirrored with an effort to process.
