Social Worker Grade 3

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $50 - $60

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 2475

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee? _**
- **Join us to make a difference as Grade 3 Social Worker with Austin Health**:

- **Ongoing, full time position with an ADO**:

- **Heidelberg location, with multiple public transport options available to Austin Hospital**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the Social Work Department**

The Social Work Department provides services on all three campuses of Austin Health across all Clinical Service Units (CSU). The department provides care across the continuum from the Emergency Department through bed-based services and ongoing ambulatory care. The Social Work Department is committed to providing a comprehensive, skilful, and innovative service for our patients. In realising this goal, the Social Work Department will lead in and excel in research, teaching and the use of person-centred evidence-based practice.

Supported by Grade 4 social workers and Social Work Manager, staff have opportunities to participate in activities such as: professional supervision and performance review, research, quality improvement activities, undergraduate and / or post-graduate student teaching. Social workers also have opportunities to further develop skill and knowledge with access to further training (including leadership training, and project skills development training) relevant to role and have access to relevant forums and conferences.

**About the role**

This position will provide leadership support to a Social Work team and actively contribute and provide leadership in a portfolio or professional domain within the Social Work Department.

The Grade 3 Social Worker will:

- Provide operational and clinical leadership in discipline practice
- Manage an individual caseload and act as a consultant/resource in the relevant area of expertise
- Provide a high quality clinical social work service to patients at Austin Health.
- Use their professional knowledge to develop and foster the professional development of others.
- Deliver training and supervision to both staff and students.
- Undertake quality, safety and research activities with guidance and support from the Social Work Grade 4, Research and Quality Improvement Lead.
- Assist a Social Work Grade 4 to enact a designated portfolio.

**About you**
- Approved degree in Social Work and eligible for practising membership of Australian Association of Social Work
- At least 7 years’ experience employed as a Social Worker
- Extensive clinical knowledge and experience in a clinical area (advanced clinical skills)
- Demonstrated understanding of theoretical frameworks that inform social work practice in a clinical hospital setting
- Demonstrated leadership abilities, and experience in leading a clinical care team or professional practice area
- Demonstrated clinical supervision experience (staff and/or students) and ability to educate and develop others
- Demonstrated skills in quality improvement, able to undertake quality improvement project work and/or research activity
- Demonstrated skills in education, teaching and training, able to promote the professional competence of staff
- Ability to anticipate change and provide leadership around a change process
- High level interpersonal skills, proven ability to relate to people at all levels within an organisation and ability to promote team development and engagement
- Demonstrated skills and experience in providing clinical professional supervision to Grade 1 and Grade 2 Social Workers and students

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the**position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: Sunday 19 January 2025