Marrmak - Social Worker Grade 3

Full-Time ongoing opportunity
- Extensive investment in facilities and people supporting our significant service expansion
- A culture where people care

Job location
Forensicare provides specialist mental health services for women at Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, including Marrmak a 20-bed custodial mental health unit, a specialist outpatient service, and therapeutic day program. There is a strong focus on providing a healing environment not only for people in prisons, but importantly also one that supports the well-being and safety of all staff. This approach recognises that many women who are imprisoned are also victims of crime and have challenging mental health conditions as a result. The word Marrmak is from the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people meaning ‘safe’.
**About the Role**:

- The Senior Social Worker works with the social work discipline leads and educators to develop, plan and implement prison-based social work services to achieve and maintain a high standard of consumer care, consistent with the Forensicare Model of Care.
- The Senior Social Worker provides professional leadership within the social work service, their local team and directorate, and the broader organisation, contributing to service development and research projects, committees and working parties, and the development and review of policy and procedures.
- The role provides direct social work practice, consultation and advice, and clinical supervision and support to early career and more established social workers.
- The position operates within the boundaries set by professional standards, legislative requirements, and organisational policies and procedures.

**Duties**:

- Contribute to key policy and program development projects within prison services, ensuring strong links and contribution to the organisation’s Corporate Strategic Plan.
- Participate in the recruitment, selection and deployment of social work staff when required.
- Engage in and provide clinical supervision to Grade 1 and Grade 2 Social Workers and students.
- Ensure the maintenance of accepted professional standards through formal supervision and performance appraisal of relevant social work staff.
- Complete tasks, research projects and articles for presentation and publication both and outside the service, which enhance the role and function of services to forensic mental health patients and the role and function of the service as a whole.
- Initiate and implement discipline-specific quality improvement activities and contribute to generic quality improvement activities, protocol development and achieving ethical standards within the service.

**About You**:

- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of women’s gender-specific needs and pathways into the criminal justice system.
- Demonstrated ability to provide high-level leadership, management and supervision of staff and students.
- Ability to deliver specialist social work services including clinical, primary, secondary and tertiary consultation within a complex and dynamic environment.
- Proven skills and experience in developing and implementing complex case plans involving direct and indirect social work practice

**What you need**:

- Approved degree in Social Work and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.

To access a detailed position description, please click Marrmak - Social Worker - Grade 3.
- Please Note - Applications will be reviewed and interviewed as they are received.

A culture where people matter.
- Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of all our team members.
- Well defined career pathways existing across our Directorates with multi-disciplined Teams.
- Salary Packaging Options available - Mortgage, Rent, Car, Expenses
- A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
- Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
- Access to an employee assistance program - an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
- A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological, peer support and critical incidence response programs.

Eligibility
- Influenza and Immunisation Evidence