Grade 2 Social Worker

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 54893
- 0.6 EFT in Women’s and Children’s / 0.4 EFT in Casey Emergency department.
- Do you want to join a dynamic team of social workers working in the hospital setting?
- Are you looking for an opportunity to work across a diverse patient population?

**About Monash Health**

**About the Role**

The position is a permanent position based at Casey Hospital.

Casey Hospital has expanded to provide the residents of Casey and Cardinia with access to quality critical healthcare closer to home. The expanded facilities increase the specialties and complexity of services provided, with an Intensive Care Unit and General Medicine Wards being commissioned, in addition to increased capacity in the Emergency Department, Haemodialysis and Outpatients. We are now looking to appoint an experienced Healthcare Social Worker to a full time, permanent Grade 2 Social Work position in Women’s and Children’s and the emergency department and across the broader acute and sub-acute adult wards.

**About You**

You are a dynamic Allied Health professional who is passionate about making a positive contribution to the health of your patients. Described as enthusiastic and motivated to perform at your best every day, you demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

The work provides an opportunity to showcase your skills in working with people from diverse backgrounds, across a range of diagnostic groups, using skills in risk assessment, care planning, decision-making and discharge planning.

You will be a highly skilled social worker in health care with the opportunity to work in a setting assisting adult and paediatric patient cohorts including general medicine, general surgery, emergency department and other specialty areas as required. The focus is on psychosocial assessments, complex discharge planning and family support. Experience in a hospital or other health setting is preferred.

**You can also demonstrate**:

- Your dedication to safe best practice and quality care
- An unwavering commitment to delivering patient centred care
- Enthusiasm and a positive attitude to your work, compassion and the ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team
- Motivation to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence

**What you need**:

- An Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) accredited Bachelor Degree or entry level Master’s Degree of Social Work that provides eligibility for membership of the AASW.**What we offer**:

- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills and knowledge base
- avenues to further develop your leadership and project management skills
- mentorship and career guidance
- support to attend relevant forums and conferences
- a supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite staff car parking and a generous Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

This as a great opportunity to further develop your skills and experience in a state of the art facility.

**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);and
- proof of immunisation.

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