Social Worker - Northern Community Mental Health

• Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Northern Community Mental Health - Salisbury SA 5108 
• Salary: $94,997 - $110,052 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits – AHP2
• Ongoing Full-Time

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit a Social Worker to work in our dynamic, growing and supportive team, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.

Community mental health recovery looks different for everyone — and at the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN), the Social Workers who make it possible are anything but ordinary. If you're ready to bring your clinical skills to a service that genuinely invests in its people and the communities they serve, this ongoing, full-time role within the Adult Mental Health Service could be your next step.

Embedded within the NALHN Mental Health Service Adult Community team, you'll provide specialist social work assessment, intervention, and recovery-focused support to adults experiencing complex mental health challenges across Adelaide's northern suburbs. Your day-to-day will include:

• Conducting comprehensive psychosocial assessments and contributing to multidisciplinary care planning
• Delivering evidence-informed individual and group interventions that support recovery and community participation
• Collaborating with consumers, carers, and external agencies to coordinate care across health and community systems
• Providing consultation, advocacy, and liaison to support safe and appropriate transitions of care

• Demonstrated experience in mental health assessment and recovery-oriented practice with adults
• Strong understanding of the psychosocial factors that influence mental health and wellbeing in community settings
• Ability to work autonomously and contribute constructively within a multidisciplinary team
• Commitment to SA Health's person-centred care values and the NALHN community it serves
• Current driver's licence suitable for community-based work across the northern metropolitan region

To be eligible for this position, you must have an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide. 

NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.

With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.

Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways.

Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:

“My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care.”

“I feel like I’m part of a growing and developing service.”

“I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support.”

NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide’s north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.

Lyell McEwin Hospital – the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital – a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.

Mental Health Services – adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.

Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services – provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.

Primary Health Care Services – including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.

• DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
• National Police Check (National Police Certificate) for vulnerable person-related employment – apply to any of the accredited bodies approved to offer a service direct to the public. Accreditation is provided by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. See our National Police Certificate accredited bodies page for links to lodge screening requests.

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 953899

Mangaljit Johal 

Principal Social Worker 

Phone: (08) 7485 4300

E-mail: Mangaljit.Johal@sa.gov.au 

20 November 2026 – 11.55PM

 953899 - Social Worker, Northern Community Mental Health - NMH - AHP2 - Role Description.pdf

* Refer to the SA Health Career Website – How to apply for further information.

Advertised: 06 Nov 2026 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
Applications close: 20 Nov 2026 Cen. Australia Daylight Time

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