Description
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Position Description
Position title GP+ Social Worker, GP+ Program
Award Health Professional Employee Professional Award, Level 3
Location Multiple general practices in the Central and Eastern Sydney PHN region
and Lilly Pilly Counselling Inc’s Rockdale Office
Reports to GP+ Lead Social Worker
Working hours Part-time 3 days per week, 2.5 year contract with possibility for
extension.
About Us
Lilly Pilly Counselling Inc is a not-for-profit organisation offering a range of counselling services
tailored to individuals, couples, and families. We value collaboration, integrity, and compassion and
our team is passionate about creating a supportive and nurturing environment for our clients and
staff.
GP+ Program Overview
The new GP+ Social Work Program provides essential social work services in smaller and solo
general practices to better support people with chronic diseases who may struggle to access private
allied health services.
GP+ Social Workers are an independent service shared across participating general practices in the
St George region:
• They will rotate across practices on a weekly or fortnightly schedule.
• Time in each practice will vary based on factors such as patient load, number of staff, and
available administrative support.
• A minimum of ½ day per week per practice is anticipated, with social workers initially
attending one clinic per day.
• Workers will be rostered consistently to the same clinics to build trust and maintain
continuity.
The GP+ SWs will also have access to an off-site office space in Rockdale.
GP+ Social Worker Role
The GP+ Social Worker supports multiple general practices to improve the outcomes for patients with
chronic conditions by providing social work services in line with the AASW Social Work Scope of
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Practice in Health. Specific responsibilities will vary as the in response to the needs of each
practice’s client cohort, but will include:
GP+ Social Work services
• Build strong relationships with general practice staff and establish appropriate referral and
care coordination pathways for each unique practice and their patient cohorts.
• Conduct psychosocial assessments, provide basic counselling, and assist with simple
socio-legal issues for patients with chronic conditions.
• Develop comprehensive care plans and participate in care coordination to ensure timely,
appropriate support.
• Assist patients to navigate health and social systems and link them to relevant services such
as My Health Record, My Medicare, My Aged Care, Centrelink, and housing or social services.
• Collect service delivery data and administer patient reported outcome and experience
measures.
• Participate in any onboarding process required by general practices (e.g. use of client
management systems).
• Attend regular supervision and professional development opportunities to maintain service
quality and professional growth.
• Contribute to continuous program improvement and evaluation activities.
• Provide leave coverage for other members of the team.
Organisation accountabilities
• Adhere to all Lilly Pilly Counselling policies and procedures.
• Actively ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself and others at work in accordance
with the Work Health Safety Act 2011.
• Abide by your profession’s code of ethics and maintain a professional level of behaviour and
conduct in the workplace, at all times.
• Attend relevant team meetings and team events and to undertake team related duties from
time to time with the larger Lilly Pilly Counselling Inc team.
Qualifications & Essential Criteria
• Bachelor or postgraduate degree in Social Work and eligibility for the Australian Association
of Social Workers (AASW).
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in counselling/casework, with knowledge of chronic
disease and mental health.
• Excellent understanding of, and experience in navigating, national and state-level services
and supports (e.g. Centrelink, My Aged Care, NDIS etc) as well as services within the Central
& Eastern Sydney PHN region.
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• Strong time-management, organisational, problem-solving and reasoning skills to operate
autonomously with minimal direct supervision, independently managing caseloads and
triaging referrals.
• Strong capacity and experience building effective working relationships within
multidisciplinary teams with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing daily priorities and needs of individual practices, multiple
workplaces and teams.
• Strong computer literacy, including confidence using electronic medical records, client
management systems and the Microsoft 365 Office suite.
• A National Police Check (Vulnerable Persons) completed within the last 2 years and a current
Working with Children Check
• A current NSW Drivers Licence and willingness to travel between general practices using your
own registered and insured motor vehicle.
Desirable Criteria:
• Experience providing social work services in a health care setting
• Fluent in a relevant community language or experience with multicultural communities.
• Experience working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
• Experience working with older people.
• Recent CPR certificate.
Working arrangements
GP+ Social Worker will:
• operate within core business hours, Monday to Friday, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
• be reimbursed for travel using the standard Australian Tax Office per km formulae.
APPLICATIONS
Send your application and resume outlining how you meet criteria to GP+ Lead Social Worker, Sue Wood: s.wood@lillypillycounselling.com.au. +612 83584008
