Senior Social Worker

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time until June 2028

Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3

Remuneration: $58.95 - $60.86 per hour, plus superannuation

Hours Per Week: 20

Requisition ID: REQ668203

Applications close: Sunday, 14 June 2026

Senior Social Worker, Sydney Youth Cancer Service - Prince of Wales Hospital

Benefits

• A workplace culture with a foundation that promotes person centred care approaches and staff wellbeing
• Orientation and supported transition into your new role
• Targeted clinical stream education programs affiliated with university partners
• Development pathways that are aimed at career progression
• Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave
• Salary Packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing
• Corporate health and fitness program, discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members
• Discounted Private Health Insurance

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The Role

The Senior Social Worker for the Sydney Youth Cancer Service at Prince of Wales Hospital provides specialist psychosocial assessment, intervention, and support to adolescents and young adults with cancer, as well as their families and carers, across all stages of the cancer journey. The role delivers high-quality, patient-centred social work services in accordance with professional and organisational standards, supports the multidisciplinary team through education and consultancy, and contributes to service development, quality improvement, and consumer engagement initiatives. The Senior Social Worker also plays a key role in crisis support, care coordination, data reporting, and the promotion of culturally sensitive, evidence-based practice to enhance outcomes for young people affected by cancer.

Where You'll be Working

Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Service is a Level 6 Tertiary Referral Hospital with an inpatient bed base of 370. Each year we care for more than 70,000 patients in our Emergency Department and have around 50,000 admissions to the inpatient units. POWH offers an outpatient service and rural outreach service and provides more than 900,000 occasions of non-admitted patient care each year, including innovative virtual models of care. We have transitioned the majority of inpatient units and wards to the Acute Services Building (ASB) including a state of the art Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit. POWH provides an exceptional staff experience and enhanced patient and family outcomes as a result of the provision of person-centred care.

Randwick Local council is renowned for our world-class beaches and supported by cafes and restaurants to tickle your taste-buds, Randwick’s fascinating coastline and atmosphere will have you in awe the minute you arrive. Offering a mix of historic buildings, impressive beaches and coastal walks coupled with boutique restaurants, transport links and a vibrant nightlife, you’ll never be short of things to do in this progressive community.

Selection criteria

To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the below questions as thoroughly as possible.

• Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Professionals (State) Award, eligibility for practicing membership of AASW and demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional learning.

• Extensive post graduate clinical experience in social work assessment, crisis intervention and counselling with adolescents and young adults and their support networks across inpatient and outpatient settings, with demonstrated skills relevant to coping with illness, disability and bereavement.

• Sound knowledge of development frameworks and the impact of chronic illness, disability, treatment and hospitalisation on young people, their families and carers.

• 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.

• Demonstrated ability to provide high level clinical advice, education and support to others in providing service excellence.

• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature.

• Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes.

• Demonstrated active participation in developing, implementing and reporting on services.

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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.

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 characteristic 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.

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 [email protected] 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

• An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies
• Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
• Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description
• Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer

• We do have an Aboriginal Workforce Team that can also provide support ([email protected]) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website

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