Social Worker Grade 1

Job Requisition ID: 3357
- Legal Entity: Monash Health
- Location: Dandenong, VIC, AU, 3175
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Posting Date: 8 Jan 2025

**Monash Health is a great place to work**

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare and service for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care across south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations; via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes.

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**Working in Healthcare has never been more important or meaningful.**

**Our Journey**
- We are a busy and dynamic team assisting patients and families by providing a professional service for patients referred across the acute and sub-acute inpatient setting.
- Our Social Work service includes Acute, general medicine, surgery and specialty areas such as Intensive Care, Emergency Department and Women’s and Children’s services.
- This position will be based in our Social Work team at Dandenong Hospital

**About the Role**

The Dandenong Social Work Department is looking for a Grade 1 social worker to join the team working in General Medicine with in acute hospital setting. This position is a full-time, permanent position and is part of a flexible team who collaborate to provide a holistic approach to service delivery across Dandenong Hospital, also working collaboratively across all sites bed-based and community.
- Showcase your skills in working with people from a range of diverse backgrounds as well as completing complex psychosocial assessments.
- Development of patient centred care plans and complex discharges.
- Bed-based service delivery includes rosters servicing the Emergency Department, Women’s and Children’s wards.
- You will be a member of a dynamic Social Work and Allied Health team working in a collaborative model of care across Monash Health.
- Work closely with the internal and external stakeholders to provide care founded on current evidence-based practice for patients accessing care through the inpatient and community based setting.

**A Day in the Life**

As a Monash Health employee, you will have the ability to maintain a high level of communication with patients, visitors and colleagues enabling you to deliver exceptional care. As a member of the team you are integral to the Monash Health Social Work service delivery and consistently demonstrate our core values. You will be part of a flexible workforce with personalised support. You will be a member of a dynamic team with the opportunity to work in a setting assisting adult patient cohorts from general medicine, general surgery, Emergency department, Women’s and Children’s and other specialty areas as required. The focus is on psychosocial assessments, risk assessments, complex discharge planning and family support.

**About You**

**What you Bring**:

- An interest or experience in health care.
- Through your hard working and enthusiastic nature you have the ability to adapt to changing settings and priorities.
- You are a dynamic Allied Health professional who is passionate about making a positive contribution to the health of your patients,
- You are highly motivated to perform at your best every day, demonstrating excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Your dedication to safe best practice and quality care
- An unwavering commitment to delivering patient centred care
- Possess a positive attitude to your work, compassion and the ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team
- Motivation to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence

**What you Need**

To be considered for this important role you will ideally possess the following:

- An AASW accredited Bachelor degree or entry level Master’s Degree of Social Work that provides eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers
- Good organisational skills and a positive, enthusiastic attitude towards work
- Experience in working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Able to work autonomously
- A friendly, outgoing and reliable demeanour
- Well-developed clinical assessment and complex discharge planning skills
- A current Victorian drivers licence

**In Return**:

- Exposure to a variety of hospital settings and working with Monash Health’s exceptional healthcare clinicians
- Receive corporate benefits such as salary packaging, access to staff parking, on site Gym, and Employee Assistance Program
- You will receive all casual employee benefits
- You will be provided with Continuing education and access to online resources

**Social Worker Gr 1 Position Description can be**found here**

**Role Statement can be**found here**

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