Social Worker

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training, Health and Allied Health, Family Violence Workers, Medical, Nursing

Reference: 56497

**About Monash Health**

**About Us**

The Oasis Child Neuropsychiatry Inpatient Unit, based in the Monash Children’s Hospital, provides specialist assessment and care planning for children aged up to 12 years, with neurodevelopmental disorders (such as Autism Spectrum Disorder or Intellectual Disability) and/or who show severe or complex psychiatric, behavioural and developmental symptoms that indicate need for a short term inpatient service.

A range of consultation services, brief emergency admissions, and planned assessment admissions are provided. The unit is part of the network of child and youth mental health services (CYMHS) provided across metropolitan and regional Victoria. Patient care is carefully planned and managed through collaboration with local CYMHS care teams and/or private psychiatrists to ensure an integrated and effective service, tailored to the individual needs of each child and family.

The Oasis Unit is a centre for excellence with an active clinical and research program that integrates and enhances knowledge from psychiatry, paediatrics, neurology, endocrinology, and other specialist medical and allied health services.

**About the Role**

The Oasis Unit Social Worker position is a specialist clinical mental health role. The Social Worker will have training, qualifications and experience in assessing and treating young people who have difficulties with their mental health. The Child Neuropsychiatry Social Worker works within the multi-disciplinary team to provide discipline specific assessment and treatment that contributes to the joint formulation and intervention planning for children admitted to the Child Neuropsychiatry unit.

The Social Worker will also contribute their skills and knowledge through individually targeted interventions and the group program. The role includes specialist consultation and education to families, schools, CYMHS and community based services and contribution to research and evaluation projects. All ELMHS Mental Health Clinicians focus on providing a professional clinical practice that is sensitive to issues of diversity, which adheres to professional ethics, relevant legislation, policies and procedures. It is an expectation that the Oasis Unit Social Worker will also promote good working relationships between the team, Monash Children’s Hospital, referring teams and relevant external agencies.

You will:

- be part of a dynamic changing environment
- have access to a range of corporate benefits, including salary packaging options that can significantly increase your take home pay
- have access to staff discounted car parking, gym and childminding facilities.

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same)
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.