ACT Health
Social Worker – Acute Allied Health Services
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Employment Type: Full Time, Temporary 7 months with possibility of extension
Classification: Health Professional Level 3 (PN 20762)
Salary: $111,639 - $120,057 (Plus 12.5% Super)
Location: The Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT
Section: Acute Allied Health Services
Closing Date: 02 August 2026
What can we offer you:
- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions.
- 12.5% Superannuation.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
- Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy, and gift shop.
About the Role:
We are inviting applications from suitably qualified Social Workers with more than three years of experience to join our Social Work Department.
Our Social Work Department provides Social Work services across the Canberra Hospital, including critical care units, medical and surgical wards, and maternity and paediatrics. See position description for further job information. While positions are full-time, reduced hours may be considered.
As a Social Worker, you will provide a range of high-quality clinical social work services to patients, families, and carers, including comprehensive psychosocial assessments and evidence-based interventions to address complex needs associated with traumatic injury, psychological trauma, family violence, new diagnoses, adjustment to illness, chronic health conditions, loss and grief, safety concerns, mental health, and alcohol and other drug issues. You will provide counselling, emotional support, advocacy, and care coordination, ensuring patients can access the services and resources they require. Working collaboratively with health professionals and external service providers, you will facilitate referrals and maintain strong partnerships to support continuity of care. As a valued member of the multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to a positive patient journey and the delivery of safe, compassionate, and high-quality patient-centred care.
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We support qualified social workers of all levels embarking on a career move into hospital social work by providing skill development support from our Social Work Clinical Educator, supervision, and access to funded professional development opportunities.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to get in touch with the contact person who will be able to guide you on how to complete this response. Applications submitted without a Response to Selection Criteria will not be considered.
For more information regarding the position duties, click here for the Position Description.
Please note, prior to commencement, successful candidates will be required to:
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.
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To Apply:
Please apply online by submitting a copy of your CV along with a 2-page Response to the Selection Criteria, listed in the Position Description.
Please note applications submitted via an agency will not be accepted for this position.
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focused on the delivery of high-quality, effective, person-centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary, and community-based health services to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.
Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful, and Kind
CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.
If you would like further information regarding this opportunity, please contact Sue Cooper on (02) 5124 2316 or at Sue.Cooper@act.gov.au
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