Social Worker

4 weeks ago

Canberra, Australia ACT Government Full time

**Social Worker**
**Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency**:
**Closes: 25 April 2023**:
**Classification**: Health Professional Level 2
**Salary**: $70,679 - $97,028 plus superannuation
**Position No**: 52383 - 029YJ
**Directorate**: Canberra Health Services
**Advertised (Gazettal date)**: 11 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.

**ABOUT YOU**

**Behavioural Capabilities**
- Good organisational skills with a high degree of drive
- Adaptability and flexibility to accommodate change and provide responsive services to meet patient’s needs
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Willingness to critically reflect on and develop practice skills and framework

**Position Requirements/Qualifications**:
**Mandatory**
- Relevant tertiary qualifications and a minimum of 1 years’ experience working professionally in Social Work is required.
- Degree in Social Work (or equivalent).
- Professional membership or eligibility for professional membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
- The successful applicant will need to participate in weekend and after-hours work and roster.
- CHS is leading the drive to digitally transform health service delivery in Australia through the implementation of a territory wide Digital Health Record. Computer literacy skills are required which are relevant to this role as you will be responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Digital Health Record and/or other Information Technology systems; once proficient, you will need to remain current with changes, updates and contingencies.

**Desirable**
- Have an understanding of how the National Standards and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) indicators align with this role.
- Fulfil the responsibilities of this role as detailed in the CHS Exceptional Care Framework, Clinical Governance Framework, Partnering With Consumers Framework and all other related frameworks.
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Obtain a Compliance Certificate from OMU (Occupational Medicine Unit) relating to assessmen

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