Employment Type : Permanent Full Time

Position Classification : Social Worker Level 3

Remuneration : $121,568 – $125,507 per annum plus Superannuation

Hours Per Week : 38

Requisition ID : REQ699911

Applications Close: 20 November 2026

REQ699911 –Level 3 Social Worker

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated Social Worker to join the Social Work Department at St George Hospital. This permanent full-time position is based within the St George Hospital Transition Team and line managed by the Social Work Manager.

The Role

The Transition Team Social Worker plays a key clinical leadership role in managing some of the hospital’s most complex patient journeys. The team works to ensure effective care coordination and seamless transitions across all phases of care, while providing specialist support and consultation to clinical teams to address barriers to discharge, reduce avoidable delays, and minimise preventable readmissions.

The position carries an independent clinical caseload and provides expert consultation to Social Work colleagues managing patients with significant psychosocial, legal, and system complexities. The role requires advanced clinical reasoning, advocacy, and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

The Transition Team consists of a Clinical Nurse Consultant, Occupational Therapist, and Social Worker, with specific portfolios allocated across the team. Currently, the Social Work portfolio focuses primarily on patients requiring complex discharge planning, including residential aged care pathways, NCAT applications, and NDIS access and planning processes.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate experience and knowledge in:

• Complex case management and comprehensive psychosocial assessment.
• Developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with residential aged care providers and managing complex aged care placement pathways.
• Preparing high-quality briefing notes and reports for Hospital Executive and the Ministry of Health.
• Understanding immigration-related matters that may impact healthcare access and discharge planning.
• Knowledge of NCAT processes and their application within the healthcare setting.
• Knowledge of NDIS processes and their application within the healthcare setting.
• Experience with the provision of clinical supervision to level 1- 2 staff.
• Has worked as a qualified social worker for at least 5 years.

You will join a large, dedicated, and highly skilled Social Work Department that provides services to a culturally and socially diverse patient population and their families. The successful applicant will also be required to support service delivery across other areas of the hospital as needed and participate in the after-hours on-call crisis roster.

Applicants should be aware that the position involves working with vulnerable individuals and people who may have experienced significant trauma and adversity. This role requires a high level of resilience, professionalism, and commitment to patient-centred care.

About SESLHD

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.

Plan, coordinate, and implement in-depth levels of clinical expertise and extensive specialised knowledge within a social work specialty area in order to provide high quality counselling, advocacy and therapeutic care to the patients, their carers and families of the facility consistent with NSW Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards.

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is committed to improving the care provided to our patients in line with our vision of Working together to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.

Additional Benefits

• Financial benefits – Salary packaging options – Up to $9K for living expenses, $2.6K meal & entertainment, Novated Leasing; and Discounted Private Health Insurance.
• Work-life balance – Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
• Professional growth – Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning.
• Health & wellbeing – Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.

Selection Criteria

1. Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award and eligibility for membership of the AASW.
2. Extensive post graduate clinical experience in relevant specialty area (including providing crisis interventions) with a demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning.
3. Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, throughout all organisational levels.
4. Ability to provide in-depth advice and education to enhance service delivery and to guide and support others in providing service excellence, with the capacity to provide clinical supervision to other staff.
5. Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature.
6. Ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff.
7. Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritise your own and team work requirements effectively within agreed time frames.
8. Current drivers licence (or a willingness to travel in accordance with the demands of the position) and the ability to participate in the After Hours Crisis On-Call service, and work across a seven day roster (including weekends).
Need more information?

1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards

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For role related queries or questions, please contact Anabelle Perry via email at @health.nsw.gov.au

We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplaces are welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and social-economic status. Read about our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy for more information.

Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.

Reasonable Adjustments

NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email *@health.nsw.gov.au and let us know.

Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.

Information for applicants

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