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Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Part time
Organisation: Austin Health
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 46580
Senior Clinician, Family Violence
Part time, permanent role
Heidelberg location, with flexible working arrangements
$50 - $53.42 per hour (base) + salary packaging + super
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 Senior Clinician will report to the Family Violence and Child Safe Program Lead and Social Work Manager, and will be responsible for providing direct clinical family violence and child safe practice. The Senior Clinician will also undertake a range of project and quality improvement activities that support the Social Work discipline and Austin Health with MARAM alignment and being a Child Safe organisation.
Key responsibilities will see you:
Provide direct family violence and child safe practice
Provide family violence and child safe secondary consultation and support to Austin Health staff
Provide specialist knowledge and advice to support the continued development of Austin Health’s response to family violence
Facilitate education, teaching and training to staff and students
Develop policy, procedure, guidelines and clinical forms/tools and educational resources
Facilitate relationships with external and internal stakeholders to support all practice and project deliverables
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.
Experience in building and participating in internal and external stakeholder partnerships and governance networks.
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:
We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from anyone identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, physically or culturally diverse, LGBTQI+, and people of any age.
Work with us!
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working with Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to the hiring manager.
