Social Work Clinic

Conditions seen

Barwon Health offers a social work service into the following specialist clinics:

• Andrew Love Cancer Centre (cancer/oncology services)
• Renal Services
• Women’s and Children’s Services:
  • Barwon Regional Adolescent and Child Health Shared-Care Clinic
  • CDU (chemical dependency unit)
  • Choices
  • Complex neonatal clinic
  • NEST (Navigate, Empower, Support, Together) clinics
  • Out of Home Care clinic
  • Paediatric Diabetes
  • Pathways clinic
  • Pelvic pain clinic
  • Pregnancy Care
  • 1000 days clinic
• Perioperative clinics

Conditions not seen

If the need for Social Work is not related to the current health presentation in the clinics listed above, please see the Social Work page for information about other Social Work services.

How do I access this service?

To be seen by a Social Worker in one of the above specialist clinics, you need to be referred by a doctor or nurse from the specialist clinic.

We are unable to see you in our clinics without a referral.

Wait time

All requests for specialist clinic appointments are scheduled according to the patient’s clinical need. Clinicians assess whether an appointment is urgent or routine, based on information provided in the referral.

Barwon Health aims to see all ‘urgent’ referrals within 30 days. Our wait times for patients who are categorised as ‘routine’ are more variable, depending on the demand for our services.

The Victorian Agency for Health Information also publishes information about the waiting time for routine first appointments.

Routine first appointments | Victorian Agency for Health Information (see Allied Health waiting time).