Social Worker

**Role Title**: Social Worker - Men's Health
- **Role Type**:**Max-Term, Part-Time working 24 hours per week
- **Role Grade**:**Social Work Level 3
- **Department and Location**: Cancer, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
- **Salary**: $112,396 - $116,038, per annum + super

**Better and fairer care. Always.**
We are St Vincent's Health Australia, Australia's largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services.

Founded by The Sisters of Charity in 1857, our +30,000 healthcare superheroes operate public and private hospitals, residential aged care, community and virtual care, and outreach programs.

**About the Role**:

- Fix-Term, Part-Time role providing comprehensive social work services to patients, families and carers in our St Vincent's NELUNE Men's Health Centre.
- Conduct psychosocial assessments for patients and assess issues of risk
- As the sole social worker, you'll work with other allied health clinicians and prostate cancer nurse to provide supportive outpatient services to prostate cancer patients who are at various stages of their cancer survivorship, attend weekly MDT meeting, involve in quality improvement initiates and participate CPD with Oncology social worker department at Kinghorn cancer centre.
- Provision of counselling, individual and family, to facilitate adaptation to medical conditions, lifestyle implications and issues of anticipatory grief and loss.

**About You**:

- Degree in Social Work and eligible for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) with wealth of clinical experience in a hospital or health related field as a practising Social Worker.
- Skilled in delivering comprehensive psychosocial care, including assessments, counselling, therapeutic interventions, case management, advocacy, and discharge planning - always with a person-centred and strengths-based approach.
- Specialised knowledge and hands-on experience in oncology and prostate cancer care, supporting patients in outpatient settings with compassion and clinical insight.
- Experienced in driving service improvements through policy and procedure development, while also committed to the growth of others through supervision, mentoring, and education of staff and students.
- Organised and proactive, with excellent time management skills, strong digital literacy, and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively across diverse audiences.

**Why Work at St Vincent's?**
- Join us on our mission to provide care to all, including the most at-risk people in our community
- Discounted access to many gyms for you and your family with Fitness Passport
- Access to discounted private health insurance with Medibank
- Access to a government salary sacrifice program to make a proportion of your salary tax-free
- Financial support for educational development, scholarship programs, paid study leave

**About the Hospital**:
In this role, you will be based at St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst.
- A busy inner-city hospital in a beautiful location
- Surrounded by great cafes, galleries, and theatres, parks, nightlife, and nearby glorious beaches
- A place of expert clinical care for at-risk people
- Closely partnered with universities & affiliated research institutes, many of which are located on-campus
- Centres of excellence include heart & lung transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, cardiology, cancer care, AIDS/HIV, respiratory medicine, mental health, homeless health, drug & alcohol services, and correctional health

**Pre-employment Checks**:
Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all role-required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.

**Equal Opportunity**:
We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

**How to Apply**: