Grade 2 Social Worker, Gem@home Program

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 59318

**Working in Healthcare has never been more important or meaningful.**

**Social Work position available. Full time and part time applicants are encouraged to apply.**

**A Day in the Life**:
Key responsibilities include:

- Ability to utilise your specialist knowledge and skills in client assessment, treatment and coordination of services to work towards optimising health, well-being and participation
- Work independently within approved scope of practice to provide safe, evidence-based assessment, outcome measures, therapeutic care and/or discharge planning according to organisational policies and procedures in order to achieve optimal care
- Provide specialist knowledge, advice or guidance to other clinicians to support safe and effective consumer centred care
- Work collaboratively with consumers, their families and/or significant others and other stakeholders to establish a patient/client focussed multidisciplinary management plan, consistent with currently accepted professional standards of practice and evidenced based practice
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to deliver safe consumer-focussed care, providing specialist knowledge or depth of experience
- Use specialist clinical reasoning and guide others to prioritise and fairly distribute workloads in collaboration with the team as required

**What You Bring**:

- Demonstrated specialised knowledge and skills in Social Work psychosocial assessment and intervention
- Normally at least 3 years of clinical experience
- Strong clinical Social Work experience in aged care, rehabilitation and/or community care
- Demonstrate well-developed oral and written communication skills
- Ability to engage in reflective practice to support specialist clinical care delivery
- Demonstrated experience in contributing and responding to change ideas and supporting others through this process, using specialist knowledge
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to develop effective clinical outcomes for patients

**What You Need**:

- Successfully completed a Bachelor of Social Work, Masters of Social Work Qualifying or recognised equivalent degree.
- Eligible for ordinary membership to the AASW (Australian Association of Social Workers)
- Current Victorian Driver’s Licence without restrictions
- Working with Children’s Check.

**In Return**:

- Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
- Avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
- Mentorship & career guidance
- Support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- Supportive learning environment

These positions will be based at our Kingston Centre site, however, you may be required to work at any of the Monash Health sites.

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Jacinta Sadler, Allied Health Clinical Lead on 0438 068 750.

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

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

- salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- free flu vaccinations
- private health insurance at discounted rates
- health imaging services
- + more

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service and proudly provides healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 people work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne.

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and ICare values.

**How to Apply**:
Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.