Social Worker Level 4

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Location**:Queanbeyan
**Position Classification**: Social Worker Level 4
**Remuneration**: $117544 - $120393 per annum
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ517961
**Applications Close**:15 September 2024
**Interview Information**: Scheduled within 10 days of closing

Southern NSW Local Health District covers a large area of the southern half of NSW. Surrounding the ACT on three sides and all the way down to the Victorian border, it extends from the pristine beaches of the NSW South Coast, the farmlands of the Southern Tablelands, across the picturesque Great Dividing Range and the spectacular Snowy Mountains. We have 18 facilities and our hospitals take care of more than 200,000 people. As we are a major local employer, our staff are a part of our local communities. To find out more on what it is like to live and work in Southern NSW LHD click here - We Are Southern

**What we offer**:

- Salary Packaging - up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing
- Corporate Health and Fitness program
- 11% Superannuation on top of your gross income
- Annual Leave Loading

**Where you'll be working**
There is an abundance of lifestyle benefits available to you in country NSW and you will be amazed at what you will have access to - and it all comes without the queues and crowds of a big city. Queanbeyan enviable lifestyle and affordable property surrounded by an eclectic mix of small towns and villages. With Canberra just a 5-minute drive away, you can enjoy all the attractions of the nation’s capital along with fabulous restaurants. Connect easily and quickly with world through the Canberra International Airport, with the beach and ski fields just 2 hours away. Imagine Rural - Southern NSW Local Health District

**What you'll be doing**
The Sustaining NSW Families (SNF) program is a Nurse-led, structured sustained health home visiting program for children and families from pregnancy to 2 years of age.

The SNF Social Worker will provide specialist social work and counselling interventions as part of the SNF multidisciplinary team with an early intervention focus that aims to enhance parenting capacity, promote healthy family functioning, support families at a time of change and promote infant mental health.

**Selection Criteria**
- Degree in Social Work from an accredited course providing eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
- Extensive experience, with specialism working with families with complex clinical presentations in relevant clinical settings such as perinatal mental health, child protection, domestic violence, and substance misuse and able to form therapeutic relationships built on healthy boundaries.
- Demonstrated advanced specialist therapeutic skills in conducting complex psychosocial assessments and counselling with the ability to respond to the needs of vulnerable families in stressful situations
- Demonstrated ability to utilise problem solving skills and a multidisciplinary team approach in planning, delivery, and coordination of patient care.
- Extensive expert clinical experience providing clinical consultation and facilitating case reviews, in the contact of family centred casework within a community based multidisciplinary team
- Extensive demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining cooperative professional relationships, with other health teams, government, and NGO agencies through the use of well-developed interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
- Demonstrated high-level verbal and written communication skills with high level time management,
- Evidence of current unrestricted driver's licence and the ability to maintain. Ability and willingness to travel as the role requires. This may involve driving long distances and overnight stays.

**Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases**
This is a Category ‘A’ position, please read and understand NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015 All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in this policy. OASV requirements also include proof of vaccination against influenza and is compulsory for NSW Staff that enter any Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) or who work in NSW Health owned and operated RACFs.

**Australian Work Rights**
- At Southern NSW Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply._

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