Social Worker Grade 3

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Forensicare

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health, Policy

Reference: 15830
- Full Time Social Worker Grade 3
- Based at Marrmak Unit, Dame Phyllis Frost Centre
- Diverse and supportive environments

**Job location**

Forensicare is the statutory agency responsible for the provision of adult forensic mental health services across Victoria.

Forensicare provides specialist mental health services at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in the Marrmak Unit, a 20-bed residential program for women prisoners with an intensive outreach program and a therapeutic day program. There is a strong focus on providing a healing environment not only for people in prisons, but importantly also one that supports the well-being and safety of all staff. This approach recognises that many women who are imprisoned are also victims of crime and have challenging mental health conditions as a result. The word Marrmak is from the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people meaning ‘safe’.

**About the Role**:

- The Senior Social Worker works with the social work discipline leads and educators to develop, plan and implement prison-based social work services to achieve and maintain a high standard of consumer care, consistent with the Forensicare Model of Care.

**Duties**:

- Demonstrates highly developed skills when undertaking social work assessments of patients within an inter-disciplinary inpatient setting.
- Demonstrates specialised knowledge and understanding of the women’s gender-specific needs and pathways into the criminal justice system.
- Formulates and documents client focused care co-ordination plans, with emphasis on more complex management issues.
- Demonstrates skills in the appropriate assessment of patient discharge/release needs, and matching these with relevant services for the effective preparation and ongoing support of patients re-entering the community

**About You**:

- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of women’s gender-specific needs and pathways into the criminal justice system.
- Demonstrated ability to provide high-level leadership, management and supervision of staff and students.
- Ability to deliver specialist social work services including clinical, primary, secondary and tertiary consultation within a complex and dynamic environment.
- Proven skills and experience in developing and implementing complex case plans involving direct and indirect social work practice.
- Demonstrated ability to liaise effectively with a range of external agencies and organisations including key stakeholders.
- Demonstrate family violence risk assessment and management activities aligned to the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework, the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (FVISS) and Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) legislative requirements and related Forensicare guidelines.

**What you need**:

- Approved degree in Social Work and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

**A culture where people matter.**
- Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of managers and supervisors.
- Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
- A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
- Access to an employee assistance program - an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
- A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological support, peer support and critical incidence response programs, as needed.

**COVID19 & Influenza Vaccination Evidence**

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.