AMHSW-survey

Our Work, Our Voice: 2025 AMHSW Workforce and Practice Survey

As an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, you understand the complexity of the work, the systems you navigate, and the importance of being heard. This survey is a powerful chance to turn our collective experience into evidence. This will amplify our voice, prove our value, and drive meaningful change.

Your on-the-ground experience reveals the cracks in the system – whether it’s clunky referral processes, poor funding models, disconnected services, or a lack of appropriate services in your local area.

By sharing your insights, you will help to:

  • Advocate for fairer access to mental health support
  • Support stronger collaboration across health and social services, and
  • Promote funding models that truly reflect how AMHSWs deliver care.

The last survey led to real change – help us go further

Data from the 2022 survey has been used to:

  • Achieve fee parity for AMHSWs with psychologists under WorkCover WA
  • Support the development of WorkCover QLD and RTWSA fee schedules
  • Advocate for the inclusion of AMHSWs as ancillary providers under Medibank Private
  • Influence submissions, including the National Suicide Prevention Strategy and NSW Parliamentary Inquiry
  • Inform advocacy with key stakeholders including TAC, SIRA, icare, MAIC, and the AMA.

 

Your input provided critical evidence on fees, access, service delivery, assessment tools, and geographic reach – all of which helped to strengthen the profile of AMHSWs nationally.

The 2025 AMHSW Survey has now closed

Thank you to all those who took part.

A national picture of 4,000 AMHSWs starts with your input

The information you provide will build the case for change and be used in many ways, including:

  • Policy submissions and position papers
  • A comprehensive report detailing the findings, providing evidence used for advocacy purposes, such as engagement with government, MPs, and other decision makers
  • Guide policy, workforce planning, and funding models
  • Communication and promotional materials to influence how AMHSWs are represented in national conversations.

Survey objectives

  • Compile a comprehensive picture of AMHSWs’ scope of practice across diverse settings and client needs, supporting efforts to promote, resource, and recognise the full value of our work.
  • Develop a profile of the people AMHSWs work with, including the degree of complexity, systemic barriers they encounter, and their journey navigating support services.
  • Ascertain the enablers and barriers experienced by AMHSWs in providing services under different funding schemes.
  • Capture robust data to build business cases to advocate to different funding schemes and assist AASW advocacy initiatives in support of AMHSWs.

Help inform our advocacy focus areas

The survey takes around 30 minutes to complete. Please complete this survey by Friday 15 August.

Please note, AMHSWs can claim Cat 3 CPD points for completing this survey.

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If you would like to share more feedback or have any questions about this survey, please contact the Social Policy and Advocacy Team at [email protected]

Privacy

We are not collecting any personal information about you in this survey. The information provided in this survey will not be used to identify you or your practice. All data provided through this survey will be managed in accordance with the Australian Association of Social Workers Privacy Policy.

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