Social Worker

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 866078
**Location**: 5001 - ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Ongoing
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Family Health Service (CaFHS) - Inner South - Adelaide 5000**:

- **Salary** - **Classification - AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2 - $86,950 to $100,729 pro rata.**:

- **Employment Part Time (0.8FTE) - Ongoing Permanent**

**About the Opportunity**

An exciting opportunity exists within** CaFHS Inner South** to join the team as a **Social Worker, AHP2 **on an **ongoing **basis, working in a **part time** (0.8 FTE) capacity.

As the **CaFHS Social Worker** you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to improve the early identification, assessment and care planning for families with complex needs and facing adversity.

The CaFHS Social Worker works with parents who face challenges through the provision of individual counselling, advocacy and support. They encourage the best use of individual and family strengths and resources by working in partnerships with the caregiver/family to:

- Increase coping skills
- Better develop problem solving skills
- Feel positive about their future
- Gain a better understanding of where to seek resources/information in the future.

The Social Worker is based in a CaFHS site but works across regions, including Torrens House, a residential intensive program for mother with babies who are experiencing feeding, settling issues.

As the **CAFHS Social Worker, **you will be responsible for:

- A high standard of social work service including individual, family and group work for more complex eligible clients is provided.
- A high standard of counselling and referral provided to women who are residents at Torrens House.
- Carry out interventions including, counselling, behavioural change practice and family interventions to empower clients to make changes to improve resilience and wellbeing.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
- Ability to work effectively within a small team environment and provide guidance to entry level staff.
- Proven experience in working with families utilising current research and knowledge about attachment, infant mental health and brain development and families who are experiencing psychosocial need.

To find out the specifics, including the **key selection criteria** and **special conditions**, please go to the attached role description.

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- Free Public Transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital Workers.
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

**About Us**

The **Child and Family Health Service (CaFHS)** is a free statewide service that supports parents and families of children from birth to five years of age, who live across metropolitan, regional and rural areas in South Australia.

With over 100 clinics across South Australia, CaFHS helps parents and families to understand their child’s health, development, and wellbeing needs, which can include breastfeeding, sleeping, settling, introducing solids, parenting and play and development. Each year, CaFHS provides over 75,000 family consultations via in clinic or at home appointments, telehealth (phone) or virtually.

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

- specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
- state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
- community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
- specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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**Special Conditions**

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