Social Worker, Palliative Care

at  SA Health

Job no: 869154
Work type: Full time, Part time
Location: Adelaide Metro Northern, Adelaide CBD

Categories: Allied and Scientific Health

• Women’s and Children’s Health Network, Sub-Acute and Allied Health Division, Paediatric Palliative Care Service – North Adelaide (5006)
• Salary - Classification - AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2 - $86,950 to $100,729
• Employment Full time or Part Time - Term Contract (temporary 9-month contract until 14 March 2025)

ABOUT US

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.
Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.
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• Provide clinical and consultative services across a range of service settings, including one-on-one and group evidence based psychosocial interventions for families under the care of the PPCS
• Initiate and participate in the planning, promotion and maintenance of research and ongoing planning and evaluation of the PPCS.
• Ensure social work practices and protocols relating to Palliative care meet established methodologies.
• Provide care across the patient journey from diagnosis and into bereavement as part of an interdisciplinary approach to paediatric palliative care.
  To find out the specifics, including the key selection criteria and special conditions, please go to the attached role description.