Allied Health Professional

**Job no**: 860976
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Murray and Mallee
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Family Health Service, Berri (5343)**:

- **Salary** - **Classification - AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2 - $67,466 to $100,729**:

- **Employment - Part Time (0.6 FTE) - Ongoing Permanent**

**Overview**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** provides state of the art health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We are the state’s leading provider of specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions as well as being SA’s largest maternity and obstetric service.

Our community-based services also reach hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across South Australia through our various services and programs in areas such as our Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth Health and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

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**The Child and Family Health Service** (CaFHS) is a free statewide service that supports parents and families of children from birth to five years of age, who live across metropolitan, regional and rural areas in South Australia.

With over 100 clinics across South Australia, CaFHS helps parents and families to understand their child’s health, development, and wellbeing needs, which can include breastfeeding, sleeping, settling, introducing solids, parenting and play and development. Each year, CaFHS provides over 75,000 family consultations via in clinic or at home appointments, telehealth (phone) or virtually.

South Australia records approximately 20,000 births each year and CaFHS offers an in home initial 4 health and development check at 1 to 4 weeks of age, to support the infant and family’s health, wellbeing and development. Further health and development checks are offered at 6-8 weeks, 6-9 months, 18-24 months, 3 years and 4 to 5 years. For children with ongoing or complex needs, CaFHS can refer families to other healthcare and community service supports.

**The Opportunity**

An Exciting opportunity exists within **CAFHS **to join us as a **Social Worker**

Role Responsibilities:

- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to improve early identification, assessment, and care planning for families with complex needs
- Provide individual counseling, advocacy, and support to parents facing challenges
- Encourage the use of individual and family strengths and resources
- Enhance families' coping skills and problem-solving abilities
- Cultivate a positive outlook on the future for families
- Help families understand where to seek resources and information
- Work across regions, including Torrens House, a residential intensive program for mothers and babies experiencing feeding and settling issues

To find out the specifics, including the **key selection criteria** and **special conditions**, please go to the attached role description.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers
- Advanced interpersonal and communication skills for effective collaboration, problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict management within a multidisciplinary team environment.
- Ability to work independently under limited direction to meet deadlines and achieve agreed outputs.
- Knowledge and experience regarding assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating complex interventions including group work aimed at addressing psychosocial need in families with children.
- Demonstrated understanding of the major social and health issues facing Aboriginal people, women, fathers and children

**Benefits of Joining us**

Not only will you be able to use your skills and abilities in a both a challenging and rewarding role contributing to some of South Australia's most vulnerable women, babies, children and young people, you will also receive and attractive annual salary package with employer superannuation contributions and leave loading as well as the opportunity to maximise your salary through salary sacrifice arrangements.

**Application Instructions**

**Other Important Information**

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.

Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

**Check(s)**
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised