Family Violence Weekend Social Worker

2 weeks ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Austin Health Full time

**Family Violence Weekend Social Worker, Grade 3**:

- **Part time, fixed term position (12 months)**:

- **Heidelberg location**:
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the program**:
The Family Violence (SHRFV) Project commenced at Austin Health in early 2017 and is designed to increase the skills and confidence of staff, develop, and share resources and build hospital capability to better respond to family violence. The scope has now widened to incorporate the implementation of the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) Framework and Information Sharing Schemes (FVISS and CISS).

**About the role**:
Based within Austin Social Work Department, the Family Violence Weekend Social Worker will report to the Family Violence and Child Safe Program Lead and Social Work Manager, and will be responsible for providing direct family violence and child safe practice to referred patients. The Social Worker will use the MARAM, FVISS and CISS Schemes in practice, the Children, Youth and Families Act along with hospital policy and procedure to respond to risk. The Social Worker will also collect data, maintain accurate health records and ensure there is handover to relevant receiving staff,

Key responsibilities will see you:

- **Provide direct family violence and child safe practice**:

- **Information share and refer to relevant community agencies**:

- **Provide general social work to referred patients**:

- **Provide family violence and child safe secondary consultation and support to Austin Health staff**:

- **Contribute to policy, procedure, guidelines and clinical forms/tools and educational resources**:

- **Collect data and undertake other quality improvement activity that supports the hospital to strengthen it's response to family violence victims.**

**About you**:
You will be an experienced social worker with an understanding of Family Violence and Child Safety reform. You will have an interest and past experience in quality improvement to ensure the delivery of valued services and outcomes. You'll be comfortable with providing education and guidance to staff to help develop family violence and child safe practice

Ideally, you'll have:

- **A degree in Social Work, with at least 7 years' experience.**:

- **Clinical skill and specialist knowledge with the ability to respond to family violence and child safe matters in health.**:

- **An understanding of the family violence service system and ability to refer**:

- **Excellent communication skills and an ability to work in a multi-disciplinary hospital environment**

**Our benefits**:
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- **$11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation**:

- **A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program**:

- **Mentoring and career development opportunities**:

- **Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists**:

- **Flexible, hybrid working arrangements**

**Inclusion at Austin**:
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