Gr 2 Social Worker

**Australia - HEALTHCARE**:
**Gr 2 Social Worker - Melbourne**:
Location**:Melbourne**

Salary**:Competitive**

Position**:Full Time**

A leading hospital in Melbourne is looking to hire a Grade 2 social worker to provide quality care to clients through competent clinical skills, effective communication, and active participation within a multidisciplinary team environment.

Social workers in Australia aim to provide comprehensive assessment to enable a targeted intervention plan to be developed in consultation with the patient, their family, carers and significant others. Specialisations and priorities for Social Worker’s working in public hospitals include comprehensive psychosocial and risk assessments, effective discharge planning, coordinated and integrated approach to service delivery, facilitation of residential care, family or group work, client advocacy, advanced
counselling, participation in quality improvement activities, teaching, research, policy or program development, and provision of professional supervision.

This position includes rostered weekend shifts and is considered to be a Weekend Worker as per the award. The Grade 2 Social Worker provides a key service to the multidisciplinary team and rotates through different clinical areas.
- Scope of practice as outlined in
- Australian Association of Social Workers Practice Standards

The Social Work department consists of approximately 47 EFT across the hospital sites. We provide care to our patients within the acute, subacute and community therapy services. The department is supported by the SW Managers and SW workforce development manager. The SW department is committed to providing evidence based, patient centred practice. Supervision and reflective practice, professional development and quality improvement are a key focus of Social Work at the hospital.

**Role and Responsibilities**:
**Care**
- Provide quality patient focused care to patients and their carers through competent, evidence-based
- clinical skills relating to assessment, interventions and discharge planning
- Involve patients / carers / significant others in the decision making of treatment goals and discharge
- plans
- Demonstrate multi-disciplinary health care approach that achieves desired patient outcomes
- Prioritisation of caseload and management of competing priorities including delegation where
- appropriate
- Initiate and drive a co-ordinated team approach to patient care
- Display sensitivity and knowledge of ethical and multicultural issues and provide culturally aware
- practice
- Display sound organisational skills through efficient time management, professional responsibility and
- accountability
- Manage risk and actively work toward implementing risk reduction strategies
- Display effective communication by demonstrating sound verbal, non-verbal and written skills
- Role model timely collection, entry and analysis of statistics as directed by senior staff and /or
- manager
- Liaise and negotiate effectively with senior Medical, Nursing and Allied Health staff
- Foster positive team dynamics and workplace culture
- Ensure documentation of patient care is in accordance with Melbourne Health and discipline specific
- guidelines
- Ensure timely collection, entry and analysis of statistics as directed by senior staff and /or manager

**Learning**
- Provide clinical supervision to Grade 1 Social Work staff as per discipline and AASW Guidelines
- Demonstrate mentoring role for Grade 1 Social Work Staff
- Participate in supervision from more senior staff member as per discipline and AASW Guidelines and
- participate in Individual Development, Work Planning & Annual Discussions
- Develop the Individual Development, Work Planning and Annual Discussions of staff
- Actively engage in professional development and model a commitment to lifelong learning
- Actively participate in internal and external continuing education
- Actively participate in Social Work Portfolio group assigned to role
- Access information as necessary to improve knowledge and skills
- Supervise and teach undergraduate Social Work Students through the program/s run for
- Undergraduate Students
- Participate in the development, implementation and review of social work student education in
- conjunction with senior staff
- Demonstrate the ability to assume extra responsibilities as requested by the supervisor or senior
- clinicians
- Participate in clinical teaching activities within the profession
- Contribute to educating and raising awareness of the Social Work role within the hospital.
- Assist in the review and implementation of policies and procedures specific to the discipline and
- clinical area

**Research**
- Participate in continuous quality improvement activities and research activities both within the clinical
- team and department as required
- Participate in presentations, conferences, workshops and service development initiatives as required
- Participate in the collection and entry of