Senior Social Worker

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Location: High Street, Office

Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3

Remuneration: $116,892.00 - $120,680.00 per annum

Hours Per Week: 38

Requisition ID: REQ659645

Applications Close: 28/06/2026

With CORE Values of C ollaboration, O penness, R espect and E mpowerment,

working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is an exceptional environment to advance your career while enhancing your skills and expertise. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we deliver a comprehensive range of public health services across the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Regions.

NBMLHD Community Mental Health offers a range of specialised services for children, young people, families and older people, through our community-based services and health centers. Our multidisciplinary health professionals and case managers take a collaborative approach to mental health care by linking with their patients to work together and consult within an environment appropriate to the person's needs.

This is a senior social work role for someone who knows that young people’s mental health is shaped as much by systems and circumstance as by symptoms. Within the Youth Mental Health Initiative, you will deliver advanced, evidence informed assessment and intervention with a strong focus on risk, family inclusive practice and the social determinants of mental health. This position will work across Headspace Penrith and Headspace Hawkesbury Offices.

You will work alongside young people aged within headspace services across Penrith and Hawkesbury, and with their families and care networks, to enhance safety, stability and sustainable recovery. A core part of this role is leading complex care coordination and system navigation, supporting access to NDIA related supports, income and welfare assistance, housing and homelessness services, education pathways, youth and family agencies and a wide range of government and non-government providers.

If you are an experienced Social Worker who thrives in complexity and wants to create real, lasting change for young people and their families, this role offers the scope, trust and impact that senior clinicians are looking for. Apply Now!

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees

• Accrued Day Off (ADO)
• Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
• Novated Leasing
• Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects the community we serve. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+, Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities to apply.

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.

For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.

What you will bring to the role

• Tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligibility for AASW membership.

• Substantial post-graduate clinical experience providing Social Work services to young people with mental health issues. Demonstrated advanced knowledge of psychosocial issues that arise for young people and families with severe and chronic mental health presentations and trauma. Demonstrated clinical skill in providing assessment, care planning, and therapeutic intervention for youth mental health presentations.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and within a multidisciplinary team to accomplish clinical goals and improved consumer care and outcomes. Ability to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature.

• Highly developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage sensitively and effectively with young people and their families/carers from diverse backgrounds; demonstrated ability to provide clear, timely documentation and reports consistent with NSW Health, legal and professional (AASW) standards

• Demonstrated contribution to service development, policy/protocol development, quality improvement and evaluation to enhance clinical outcomes and service delivery in a child and adolescent and/or youth health setting.

• Demonstrated experience in providing clinical supervision, consultation and mentoring to social workers, students and/or other staff, supporting capability building in psychosocial assessment, risk, child protection, family-inclusive practice and systems advocacy, consistent with AASW supervision standards.

• Extensive contemporary experience and knowledge of mental health care practice, as well as demonstrated understanding of the principles of trauma informed care and its application when working with young people and families /carers/ support systems.

• Current unrestricted Driver’s Licence and willingness to use for work purpose travel.

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.

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For role related queries or questions contact Aislynn Weaver on ***email_hidden***