Social Worker

1 week ago

Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

About the role
The position delivers high quality; evidence based Social Work clinical services in the treatment of consumers with complex mental health issues, their families, carers, and relevant stakeholders, in an inpatient Crisis Stabilisation Facility (CSF) under a Short Stay Unit (SSU). This position operates as a member of an integrated, multidisciplinary mental health team with a focus on the provision of mental health crisis care and therapeutic interventions within a recovery and trauma informed framework.
About you
- Staff are expected to possess knowledge of, or have the ability to acquire knowledge of, principles of patient-centred care, recovery-focussed care and trauma-informed care.
- Exercise increasingly independent clinical judgement and core problem solving skills and appropriate risk management strategies to a complex caseload with supervision from a more senior clinician, commensurate with level of knowledge and clinical expertise.
- Address psychosocial and systemic/ structural barriers to engagement within recovery orientated treatment and care including screening for adverse childhood events, quality of life and wellbeing using tools including but not limited to the Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) screening tool; Psychosocial Acuity Scale; World Health Organisation Quality of Life Scale and the Wellbeing Assessment, common assessment tool (CAT).
- Provide robust assessment of consumer's capacity and decision making adopting a least restrictive approach that is domain and time specific to decisions that need to be made.

Health Equity
It is expected that all Metro North Health staff, including the incumbent of this role as a valuable member of the Metro North workforce, contribute to the health equity agenda and meet the intent of supporting the defined six actions that specifically meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS), by actively supporting the elimination of racial discrimination and institutional racism; supporting increased access to health care; influencing the social, cultural and economic determinants of health; supporting the delivery of sustainable, culturally safe and responsive health services; and recognise the importance of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisations to design, deliver, monitor and review the health and support services we provide.
Benefits when working for Metro North Allied Health
- Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
- Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of 12.75% and access to generous salary packaging
- Additional entitlements for employees (casual employees excluded) may include sick leave, carer's leave, long service leave, paid parental leave, leave without pay to travel, professional development allowance and leave
- 5% annual leave loading with up to 27.5% for shift workers
- Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
- Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance

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