Coordinator (Grade 3), Social Work Student Unit
Employment Type - Permanent Part Time
Hours per fortnight - 32
Job Category - Allied Health Professional (generic)
Req Id - 6140
- Enhance your career with Victoria’s largest regional Health Service
- Provide leadership, education, support and consultancy to Barwon Health Social Work staff
- Permanent part-time opportunity (32 hours per fortnight)
About Barwon Health
Barwon Health is one of the largest and most comprehensive regional health services in Australia, providing care at all stages of life and circumstance. Services available through Barwon Health cover the full spectrum from primary care, community services, aged care, rehabilitation, mental health, emergency and acute care. We serve more than 500,000 people through the efforts of more than 9000 staff and volunteers across more than 20 sites. Barwon Health is committed to developing a vibrant culture of education, training and research that advances health and wellbeing for all.
About the facility
Social Workers at Barwon Health work across a diverse range of the Health areas including Acute, sub-acute and community based program areas at a number of campuses of Barwon Health. They require clinical knowledge and skills relevant to working as a clinician in a health setting. The social work clinician will have an awareness and understanding of the health service environment.
About the role
This position is required to have well established clinical knowledge and skills relevant to working as an advanced Social Work clinician. Support the development of less experienced staff and undergraduate students through teaching, supervision, and guidance, while managing designated portfolios and quality improvement projects aligned with Social Work’s Business/strategic plan. Perform tasks as delegated by the Social Work Manager. On occasion act up in senior roles such as Grade 4 and Manager of Social Work.
This role specifically is to:
- Provide a high quality, evidence based, innovative and person-centred clinical education experience to Social Work students on placement by developing/implementing, co-coordinating and maintaining the Social Work student clinical placement program at Barwon Health.
- Provide leadership, education/support and consultancy to Barwon Health Social Work staff regards the required processes/parameters of student placement.
- Provide consultation on social work student placement issues within the organisation to ensure the promotion of Social Work professional values and high standards of Social Work service provision.
- Provide both Social Work and inter-professional teaching, supervision, support for students on clinical placement.
Parameters of this position include the following: a consultative/supportive role to the social work placement supervisors, liaison between the ‘provider’ universities and the placement sites across Barwon Health as to coordination of placements and related resource requirements, assistance in the selection of students for placement, overall coordination of the learning/education plan and mid-way and final reports via close liaison with the social work supervisors and the provision of regular communication to social work manager and the senior clinicians on program developments and any issues needing their advice/decision making.
All Allied Health professionals employed by Barwon Health are responsible for ensuring they maintain their credentialing requirements (as per their professional association) to practice as a health practitioner during their period of employment/engagement with Barwon Health.
See Position Description for further details.
Barwon Health staff benefits
- Excellent working conditions with a high sense of job satisfaction
- A vibrant staff wellbeing program and access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
- Wide-range of professional development opportunities to enhance your career
- Attractive salary packaging benefits. Living expenses capped at $9,010 and meals and entertainment capped at $2,650
- Social work specific supervision and professional development
About Geelong - Derived from the local Wadawurrung Aboriginal name for the region Djilang, Geelong is thought to mean ‘Tongue of Land’.
- Geelong offers a range of lifestyle choices including inner city, coastal, suburban and rural homes
- Geelong is home to world class schools and education providers
- Doorstep to the Great Ocean Road, Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast
- Appreciate our vast and abundant parklands, sports and entertainment attractions, and thriving dining and shopping complexes
Diversity and Inclusion
Barwon Health is an inclusive and welcoming employer, committed to reflecting the diverse communities we serve.
We value and celebrate people of all genders, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, faiths, abilities, and family structures. We proudly support LGBTIQA+ inclusion and are committed to a safe and inclusive workplace for all.
We encourage applications from:
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples
- LGBTIQA+ community members
- People of all gender identities
- People with disability
- Culturally and linguistically diverse communities
If you need adjustments to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us.
Barwon Health is a child-safe and totally smoke-free workplace. Prior to commencement with Barwon Health, all new employees are required to provide a completed Barwon Health Immunity Status form and have Staff Care clearance.
This role requires you to provide evidence of a 2025 influenza vaccination.
Contact person: Jacinta Bourke, acting Manager, Social Work
Phone: (03) 4215 0777
Application closing date: 13th October 2025
Are you currently a Barwon Health employee? If so, please follow the links below on how to apply.
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