AddressMonash Health is a great place to work
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 and service for people at every life stage.
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About Monash Health
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 people’s homes. Each year:
- We provide more than 3.6 million episodes of care to our community,
- More than 293,000 people are admitted to our hospitals,
- Close to 250,000 people receive care at our three emergency departments,
- We respond to more than 65,000 ambulance arrivals,
- We perform more than 55,000 surgical procedures, and
- We deliver more than 10,000 babies.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to a fair, non-discriminatory workplace that maximises the talent, potential and contribution of all. Monash Health is also committed to the Child Safe Standards.
About ELMHS
ELMHS provides a range of Mental Health services to pregnant mothers, infants, children and adolescents and their families within the Southern Region.
The organisational and clinical model has been developed to provide Mental Health care that is flexible and responsive to the individual and developmental needs of the perinatal to youth populations and their families. As such, this model will support the provision of integrated Mental Health care for young people, guided by consistent, service-wide protocols and principles of care.
About the role
Are you an experienced Social Worker with extensive experience working with parents and infants, children, adolescents and/or young people?
The Discipline Senior Social Work leads and provides professional governance to all ELMHS Social Workers. The Discipline Senior will have extensive clinical expertise in Mental Health care and in working with young people, their families and carers. The Discipline Senior will be responsible for leading the ongoing development, implementation, monitoring and review of Social Work service provision in accordance with Social Work Australia standards and ethics. The incumbent will provide direct services, supervise and lead Social Workers in both discipline specific and generic roles and contribute to policy and service development. The role will also involve clinical time within the iACT/ Access Team.
As a member of the Early in Life Mental Health Service Management Team the Discipline Senior Social Work provides a number of senior functions within, in summary these include:
- Professional Governance for all Social Workers within the Early in Life Mental Health Service.
- Responsibility for the development and implementation of workforce plans for Social Workers.
- Linkage between Early in Life Mental Health Service and Academic Institutions.
- Responsibility for appropriate discipline specific evidence-based clinical interventions including resources.
- Senior Clinical role within the iACT (Intake, Assessment, Consultation and brief Treatment Team particularly in the Discipline Specific Assessment Clinic)
About you
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in Perinatal and Infant, Child, Adolescent and Youth Mental Health Services and/or extensive Social Work experience in a related area.
- Extensive experience in a senior clinical and/or senior managerial role
- Sound knowledge of the National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce 2013
- Bachelor of Social Work or Masters Social Work Qualifying OR Masters of Social Work, OR equivalent as assessed and approved by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
- Written evidence of eligibility for AASW membership for overseas qualifications is required.
- Completion of a post graduate qualification in a relevant field
- Accredited Social Worker and/or Accredited Mental HealthSocial Worker: As approved by the AASW
For enquiries, please contact Rachel Koch on 8572 3768
We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.
How to Apply
Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online EHub system. For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please click here for the ‘Application Guide’
Applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.
Applications close 3rd July 2024
