Social Worker

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full Time, Permanent
**Classification**: Health Professional Level 3 (PN 54276)
**Salary**:$105,900 - $119,774 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital, Garran
**Section**:Acute Allied Health Services
**Closing Date**:18 October 2024

**What can we offer you**:

- City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra.- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.- Flexible working conditions.-
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**About the Role**:
Acute Allied Health Services comprises of distinct allied health teams including social work, nutrition, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology and exercise physiology and aims to provide collaborative care working across other clinical divisions that make up Canberra Health Services, as required. The Acute Allied Health Service, Social Work Department, is a contemporary evidence-based service, providing high quality inpatient and outpatient care at the Canberra Hospital.

The Social Work Department is responsible for the care and support of patients across a range of critical and acute care areas of the Canberra Hospital. These include medical and surgical inpatient wards, intensive care unit, the emergency department, maternity and paediatric inpatient wards and a range of adult and paediatric outpatient clinics.

Social workers provide assessments and therapeutic interventions for patients throughout their patient journey. Patients may present with a range of psychosocial issues that impact their health circumstances across the lifespan including ante-natal care, newly acquired and persistent health conditions, traumatic injury and medical and surgical treatments.

Social Workers understand issues related to health and wellbeing, able to identify risks and appropriate interventions, the impact of the health issue on the person and their family/carer, including adjustment to change in their health. Social Workers promote improved client outcomes through working in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team to provide high quality clinical services across a range of service specialty areas.

Clinical supervision and professional development is provided through team and department structures and informal and formal professional development opportunities are available.

**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the **_Position Description._**
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.- Current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required.- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.- Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.**To Apply**:
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

**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
- The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory’s history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics._

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**Job**: Allied Health

**Salary Range**: 105,900.00 - 119,774.00

**Closing Date**: 18/Oct/2024, 7:59:00 AM