School Social Worker

Job description

Agency Department of Education and Training Work unit Top End School Flexible Learning

Job title School Social Worker Designation Professional 3

Job type Full time Duration Ongoing

Salary $110,873 - $124,173 Location Palmerston

Position number 33383 RTF Closing 02/10/2025

Contact officer Jane Arnott, Principal on or

About the agency

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APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY

QUALIFICATIONS.

Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans

The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with disability

by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss this with the contact

officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.

Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the OCPE

website.

Primary objective

Social Workers work within a Multi-tiered System of Support framework to build the capacity of educators to support students to maximise their

educational outcomes. Social Workers provide support to the school to improve the wellbeing and safety of students through evidence-based

interventions. Consultation, planning, and short-term individual supports are provided to address student behaviour, wellbeing and social

emotional concerns that may be having a direct impact on educational outcomes.

Context statement

Top End School of Flexible Learning (TESoFL) is a multi-campus, alternative secondary education setting catering to disengaged and at-risk

adolescents within the Darwin, Palmerston, and Rural regions. The school is committed to re-engaging students who are vulnerable to social

exclusion, involvement with the juvenile justice system, poor educational outcomes, unemployment, or are in care. TESoFL provides a flexible,

supportive learning environment tailored to meet the diverse and complex needs of its students.

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Provide professional leadership in delivery of social emotional and wellbeing services within and across campus teams, including providing

effective contribution to leadership with operational support and coordination and delivery of request for service across the campuses.

1. Supervise and mentor less experienced staff within the team through provision of regular professional supervision, including students on

placement.

3. Collaborate with the school well-being team and work across multidisciplinary teams to inform practice standards, facilitate place-based

decision making and ensure cohesive and place-based service delivery. This includes participating in the assessment of service requests from

intake through to allocation and service delivery planning for the school multiple campuses and students home school.

1. Deliver high quality differentiated interventions that improve the wellbeing and safety of students through a range of whole school, whole-
   
   class, group work and individual supports including short term counselling and management of complex cases.

2. Develop and deliver evidence based Professional Learning sessions in response to the school professional learning plan.

3. Ensure adherence to the legislations, policy frameworks, guidelines and practice standards and maintain accurate records.

4. Provide critical incident response, for a range of incidents and for a diverse range of student clients across campuses in collaboration with the

school leadership team.

Selection criteria

Essential

1. An approved social work qualification that meets eligibility requirements with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).

2. Specialist knowledge, qualifications, and skills to provide a variety of social emotional and wellbeing services appropriate for individual, group

and system level intervention for children and young people with disabilities and additional needs.

3. Proven ability to provide professional leadership, supervision and mentoring in the delivery of social emotional and wellbeing services and play

a key leadership role in team operations and high-level practice matters including complex cases.

4. Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and plan and proven ability to be flexible and adapt to changing circumstances

and priorities identified by the principal.

5. Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with people from diverse

professional, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, which includes ethnic, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

1. Strong facilitation skills and the ability to deliver professional learning and information to educators and the school leadership team.

2. Demonstrated experience in the management of traumatic incidents and critical incident response and recovery.

Desirable

1. Membership with Australian Association of Social Work (AASW) as an Accredited Supervisor.

2. Postgraduate qualifications in leadership / management, specialty practice area or another relevant field.

Further information

All applicants are required to hold a current Working with Children Notice (Ochre Card) from SAFE NT or can obtain. Counsellors are required

to travel between campuses located in Darwin and Palmerston and must hold a current NT drivers' licence.