Social Worker

**Title**:Social Worker - Mental Health

**Location**:Box Hill, VIC, AU, 3128**Job Posting Date**:26 Aug 2024Do you work for Eastern Health currently? If so, please log in to Eastern Health Careers Employee Login using your network login details to see the full range of jobs available to you

**Mental Health Acute Social Worker**- Permanent Part Time | 64 hours a fortnight | Experience work-life balance
- Box Hill Hospital | Close to cafes and public transport | Welcoming culture
- Acute multi-disciplinary team setting | Excellent health safety and wellbeing**Eastern Health**
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.**About the role**
The social worker will work in partnership with consumers, carers, families and other service providers to provide high quality clinical services within a recovery orientated framework. Services provided will be individualised to support recovery and may include individual and group work, assessment and intervention, discharge planning, education for consumers and their families, and liaison with other services and programs as needed**About you**
The successful applicant will:- Hold a degree qualification in social work that has been approved by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) for practising membership as a social worker.
- Be eligible for membership of the AASW.
- Relevant theoretical knowledge, experience, and skills in the provision of evidence based social work assessment and treatment in a mental health setting.
- Comprehensive understanding of, and experience in delivering, recovery oriented mental health practice.
- Demonstrated ability to skilfully engage consumers in the development and implementation of individualised plans designed to promote, foster, and sustain personal recovery.
- Demonstrated ability to ensure practice is individualised and adapted in alignment with psychosocial assessment and with each consumer’s goals
- Demonstrated skills and experience in undertaking single session family consultation (SSFC) or a willingness to undertake SSFC training.
- Demonstrated high level interpersonal skills with consumers, their families and all health care professionals including effective conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
- A commitment to working with consumers from a wide range of cultural and social backgrounds and to providing services that are family and gender sensitive.
- Proven ability and commitment to collaborate with consumers, carers, the multidisciplinary team and external agencies.
- Commitment to supervised and reflective practice, lifelong learning and further development.Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.**What we offer**
- Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here-
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals**Next Steps**- **Good to know**:
- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.
Please- Contact Person: Pauline Kelly- Contact Number: 0403 104 891-
- Job Posting End Date: 20.9.2024- Just contact the Hiring Manager in the advertisement or call the Talent Acquisition Team on (03) 9955 7555 (Option 1)**Our Values in Action**:

- Respect for all | Safe always | Partnering in care | Learning and improving every day