Health Professional Level 2
3 weeks ago
**Health Professional Level 2 - Social Worker**
**(**
**Job Number**:
**029YJ**
**)**
**Description**
**Directorate**
- Canberra Health Services**Branch**
- Allied Health**Section**
- Acute Allied Health Services**Position Number**
- 52383**Position Title**
- Social Worker**Classification**
- Health Professional Level 2**Vacancy Type**
- Temporary Full-time**Vacancy Length**
- Eight months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.**Location
- The Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT**Base Annual Salary**
- $70,679 - $97,028**Contact Officer**Closing Date**
- 25 April 2023**Our Vision**: creating exceptional health care together
**Our Role**: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
**Our Values**: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
This position is within Acute Allied Health Services, Social Work Dept. This team covers areas including medical and surgical team, ICU, ED and maternity and paediatrics. The successful applicant will need to participate in weekend and after hours work including a roster.
**POSITION OVERVIEW**:
Canberra Health Services, provides multidisciplinary care across a range of hospital and community settings. There are several teams who provide Social Work services across inpatient, outpatient and community settings:
The Acute Support Social Work team is responsible for the care and support of patients across a range of critical and acute care areas of The Canberra Hospital. These include the Medical and Surgical inpatient wards, Intensive Care Unit, the Emergency Department, Maternity and Paediatric inpatient wards and a range of paediatric and adult outpatient clinics.
Rehabilitation Aged and Community Care team (RACC) provides integrated and effective services in the areas of rehabilitation, aged care and community care in a broader range of sites throughout the ACT, including The Canberra Hospital and The University of Canberra Hospital, community health centres and the homes of clients. This includes health care and support for people with acute, post acute and long-term illnesses.
The Cancer Psychosocial Service is located in the Canberra Region Cancer Centre (CRCC). This service provides multidisciplinary psychosocial care to patients and their families or carers who attend the Canberra Region Cancer Centre, or who have been admitted into Ward 4A or Ward 14B. Working closely with other disciplines in the CRCC and the wards in Canberra Hospital, the Cancer Psychosocial Service provides leadership in psychosocial care of patients and their families or carers. Services include facilitation of access to resources, responding to crisis, counselling, palliative care and bereavement issues, staff consultation and in-services.
Social workers provide assessment and therapeutic intervention for a range of client populations throughout their patient journey. The patients we see present with a range of psychosocial issues that impact their health circumstances across the lifespan including ante-natal care, newly acquired and chronic health conditions, medical and surgical treatments, rehabilitation and ageing.
The Social Worker will have an understanding of issues related to health and wellbeing and the impact on the person and their family/carer, including adjustment to change in their health. The Social Worker will promote improved client outcomes through working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to provide high quality clinical services across a range of service speciality areas.
**DUTIES**:
Under limited direction of the Social Work Manager and Team Leader you will perform social work duties. You will:
- Provide appropriate skilled clinical assessment and psychosocial interventions across a range of clinical areas, including individual and group work to patients and carers, with support.
- Exercise independent professional judgment on routine matters and perform novel and complex or critical tasks under professional supervision, decreasing as expertise increases.
- Liaise with patients, carers and service providers, to enhance and improve clinical outcomes and develop partnerships for health promotion and other service activities identified in the business plan.
- Assist in the supervision and education of other staff and students. Actively participate in supervision, continuing professional development and performance management.
- Actively contribute to the implementation of clinical governance activity, quality improvement projects, research programs and health promotion in areas relevant to service.
- Actively participate in team meetings, complete clinical and administrative data collection and case records to a consistent standard.
- Practice in accordance with the professional body’s code of conduct, practice standards and organisational guidelines and legislative requirements.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.
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