Social Worker Level 1/2

3 days ago

Windsor, Australia Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District Full time

**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time
**Position Classification**: Social Worker Level 1/2

**Location**:Hawkesbury District Hospital
**Remuneration**: $37.03 - $52.83 per hour
**Hours Per Week**: 16
**Requisition ID**: REQ522544

**Application Close**:05/02/2025
- With _**_CORE_**_ Values of _**_C_**_ollaboration, _**_O_**_penness, _**_R_**_espect and _**_E_**_mpowerment,_
- working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed_
- and develop in your chosen career role._

**About Us**

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.

Hawkesbury District Health Service is a teaching hospital in Windsor NSW, providing acute, community and allied health services for the local community and surrounding districts. The service provides 24-hour emergency, medical, surgical, diagnostic, maternity, neonatal, paediatric, palliative, intensive and coronary care services.

Hawkesbury District Hospital Social Work Department is seeking an experienced Social Worker to join their team on a Permanent Part Time basis working 16 hours per week. The Social Worker will work as part of the multidisciplinary health team and will provide crisis intervention, psychosocial assessment, general counselling, advocacy, case management, therapeutic and grief/loss counselling, and complex discharge planning.

This role will look at the complex interactions between individuals as patients, their environment outside the hospital, and the treatment process within the hospital setting. You will recognise that illness and admission to hospital involves adjustment within the individual and within his/her relationships with his/her outside world. It also recognises that in the process of admission and treatment in hospital the patient experiences a degree of loss of control and independence.

**Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees**
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport

**What you will bring to the role**
- Degree in Social Work with eligibility for membership of the AASW
- Demonstrated understanding of the psycho
- social impact of unexpected hospitalisation due to illness, accident or trauma
- Experience in working in an acute hospital setting
- Demonstrated ability to complete psychosocial assessments and to formulate and implement appropriate discharge and care plan in a short time frame for patients in an inpatient setting
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- High level of written and oral communication skills (including demonstrated skills in advocacy, mediation, and conflict resolution)
- Current Drivers Licence and willingness to use for work purpose travel.

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.

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