Social Worker

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 65322

**Grow your Social Work Career at Monash Health’s first ever Heart Hospital**

**Monash Health Social Work Program**

The **Social Work Service** at **Monash Health** is dedicated to assist patients with psychosocial support and advocacy through assessment, counselling, information provision, access to community resources, and discharge planning. A passionate and dynamic team assisting patients and families by providing a professional service for patients referred across acute medicine and outpatient clinics. Our Social Work service includes acute and specialty areas such as Intensive Care, Emergency Department and Women’s and Children’s services.

As a **Monash Health** Hospital, the **Victorian Heart Hospital** features a unique, holistic model of care with first ever cardiac services to provide tailored cardiovascular care for all Victorians, and specialised life-saving procedures for our growing community. The first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, housing world-ranking **Monash University** and the **Victorian Heart Institute**, combining world-class clinical care, research, education and training representing a powerful model of collaboration, innovation and excellence.

**About the Role**

Excellent opportunity for an experienced **Grade 2 Social Worker **to be part of a dynamic and inspiring social work and broader allied health team working in a collaborative model of care across **Monash Health**
- Join an active, energetic and friendly Allied Health team.
- Primary based at Victorian Heart Hospital, and at times MMC & Moorabbin Hospitals
- As a heart hospital team member support inpatient services & Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
- Work in a setting assisting adult patient cohorts across Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Intensive Care, Cardiac Emergency & Ambulatory Cardiac Prevention & Rehabilitation Program, and other specialty areas as required
- A focus on psychosocial assessments, risk assessments, complex discharge planning, bereavement, adjustment to illness and family support.
- Availability one Tuesday per month (1pm - 9pm) to deliver education in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program.
- Permanent Full Time Grade 2 Social Work position
- Outstanding career opportunity with professional development, career growth and part of an awesome and welcoming Social Work team

**What you Need**
- AASW accredited Bachelor degree or entry level Master’s Degree of Social Work that provides eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers
- Experience in a healthcare setting is desirable
- Exceptional organisational skills combined with a positive, enthusiastic attitude towards work
- Experience in working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Able to work autonomously as well as collaboratively as part of a wider team
- Well-developed clinical assessment and complex discharge planning skills
- A current Victorian drivers licence

**About You**

As an accomplished **Social Worker**, you take pride in working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders including Grade 3, Clinical Grade 4 and Social Work Managers, to provide current evidence-based practice for patients accessing care through the inpatient and community-based setting.

To ensure your success in this role, you will have the following demonstrated skills, experience and knowledge:

- A qualified Social Worker with experience providing a strong focus on patient centred care.
- A strong work ethic and enthusiastic nature, able to adapt to changing settings and shifts during the business week & weekends or public holidays.
- A dynamic Allied Health professional passionate to making positive contribution to patient health
- Outstanding communication & interpersonal skills with unwavering commitment to patient centred care
- Safe best practice, quality care with unwavering commitment to delivering patient centred care
- Highly motivated to be accountable for & manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence

For a confidential discussion and to explore this opportunity further, please call **Michael Splawa-Neyman**, Manager Social Work and Spiritual Care on 0407 169 458

**Monash Health is a great place to work**

To learn more about our organisation visit **monashhealth.org**.

To see first-hand what our colleagues think about working here, take a look at the following short videos**:monashhealth.org/careers**.

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care to south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations, via telehealth, within local communities and in peo