Social Work-barossa/gawler

**Job no**: 862598
**Work type**: Part time
**Location**: Barossa, Various
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health
- **(trim prefix please)60 - Women's and Children's Health Network, Child and Family Health Service, Nuriootpa/Gawler (5355/5118)**:

- **Salary**
- **Classification - AHP2 - Allied Health Professional L2 - $86,950 to $100,729 pro rata**
- **Employment Part time (0.9 FTE) - Ongoing Permanent**

**Overview**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** provides state of the art health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We are the state’s leading provider of specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions as well as being SA’s largest maternity and obstetric service.

Our community-based services also reach hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across South Australia through our various services and programs in areas such as our Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth Health and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

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The **Child and Family Health Service** (CaFHS) is a free statewide service that supports parents and families of children from birth to five years of age, who live across metropolitan, regional and rural areas in South Australia.

With over 100 clinics across South Australia, CaFHS helps parents and families to understand their child’s health, development, and wellbeing needs, which can include breastfeeding, sleeping, settling, introducing solids, parenting and play and development. Each year, CaFHS provides over 75,000 family consultations via in clinic or at home appointments, telehealth (phone) or virtually.

South Australia records approximately 20,000 births each year and CaFHS offers an in home initial 4 health and development check at 1 to 4 weeks of age, to support the infant and family’s health, wellbeing and development. Further health and development checks are offered at 6-8 weeks, 6-9 months, 18-24 months, 3 years and 4 to 5 years. For children with ongoing or complex needs, CaFHS can refer families to other healthcare and community service supports.

**The Opportunity**

Exciting opportunities exist within **CaFHS **to join us as a **Social Worker**.

Role Responsibilities:

- Assess client needs, plan, implement and coordinate proficient clinical care to clients and their families using evidence based practice
- Working collaboratively with the client, their family, team members and external providers to achieve best client outcomes
- Ensuring services are delivered in a culturally sensitive manner to meet the needs of the client and their family.
- Participate and encourage a positive and safe work environment

To find out the specifics, including the **key selection criteria** and **special conditions**, please go to the attached role description.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Demonstrated competence in the relevant area of nursing practice in accordance with the appropriate standards of practice.
- Demonstrated commitment to providing quality client services including consumer participation.
- Effective communication skills, problem solving, negotiation skills and conflict resolution.
- Experience in relating to people from a diverse range of cultural and social backgrounds

**Benefits of Joining us**

Not only will you be able to use your skills and abilities in a both a challenging and rewarding role contributing to some of South Australia's most vulnerable women, babies, children and young people, you will also receive and attractive annual salary package with employer superannuation contributions and leave loading as well as the opportunity to maximise your salary through salary sacrifice arrangements.

**Application Instructions**

**Other Important Information**

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.

Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

**Check(s)**
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- National Police Certificate (NPC) for employment involving unsupervised contact with vulnerable groups required for this position (E.g. aged care employment or work involving vulnerable clients)

**Immunisation Risk for this position is - Category B**

SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. **Job ref**:862598**

**Enquiries**

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