Job no: 942566
Work type: Full time
Location: Adelaide Metro Northern
Categories: Allied and Scientific Health
Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Northern Mental Health – Salisbury
Salary: $94,997 - $110,052 per annum – plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits – AHP2
Ongoing Full-Time
About the Role:
As a Social Worker (AHP2) within the Hospital in the Home (HITH) Mental Health Service, you will provide high-quality assessment, intervention and care coordination services that support consumers to achieve optimal mental health outcomes in a community-based setting. Working with a diverse caseload, you will deliver evidence-based, recovery-oriented social work services, including comprehensive psychosocial assessment, treatment planning, therapeutic interventions and discharge planning in partnership with consumers, families, carers and other health professionals.
Operating with a degree of professional autonomy, you will apply your clinical expertise to manage complex and non-routine situations, while contributing to safe, effective and person-centred care. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team of medical, nursing and allied health professionals, as well as community agencies and support services, to ensure coordinated care and positive consumer outcomes.
The role offers opportunities to contribute to service development, quality improvement, research and student supervision, while continually developing your own clinical and professional capabilities. You will play an important part in fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning and excellence within the Northern Mental Health Service.
About You:
You are a qualified and compassionate Social Worker with a strong commitment to recovery-oriented mental health care. You bring excellent assessment, communication and interpersonal skills, thrive in a multidisciplinary environment, and are confident managing complex situations with professionalism and empathy.
Organised and adaptable, you can effectively prioritise a varied caseload while building positive relationships with consumers, families, carers and community partners to support meaningful health and wellbeing outcomes.
This is a rewarding opportunity for a dedicated social worker who is passionate about mental health, enjoys working as part of a multidisciplinary team, and is committed to supporting consumers and their families through recovery-focused care.
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.
NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.
With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.
With over 7,000 employees, NALHN emphasises quality care and a supportive work environment guided by respect, integrity, and accountability. Our core values foster excellence, innovation, and equitable health outcomes.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:
NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide’s north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.
Lyell McEwin Hospital – the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.
Modbury Hospital – a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.
Mental Health Services – adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.
Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services – provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.
Primary Health Care Services – including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
Incremental wage increases in-line with the Allied Health Professionals, Assistants and Psychologists Enterprise Agreement 2025
Access to experienced clinicians across a broad range of expertise, who are supportive of collegial sharing of skills and knowledge in different therapies and client presentations.
NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.
In addition to this, other benefits of working as a Social Worker in NALHN include:
professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and under the current enterprise agreement staff are also eligible for a Professional Development Allowance and entitled to claim reimbursement of eligible professional development expenses to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations
opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research
regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals
NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.
SA Health is committed to providing an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion for all employees. We strongly encourage applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBTIQA+SB community and people who live with disability and/or neurodivergence.
We are committed to making workplace adjustments to provide a positive and supportive work environment. You are encouraged to let us know if you have any support or access requirements during the recruitment process and beyond to ensure you can perform at your best.
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.
Checks:
Working with Children Check (WWCC)
National Police Check (National Police Certificate) for vulnerable persons screening – apply to any of the accredited bodies approved to offer a service direct to the public. Accreditation is provided by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. See our National Police Certificate accredited bodies page for links to lodge screening requests.
Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)
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: 942566
Enquiries:
Kimberly Crebbin
Clinical Coordinator
Northern Mental Health
Phone: 0412 162 841
E-mail: [email protected]
Application Closing Date:
Friday 24 July 2026 – 11.55PM
Role Description and Further Information:
- Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.
Advertised: 10 Jul 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time
Applications close: 24 Jul 2026 Cen. Australia Standard Time
