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SalaryEmployment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification:Social Worker - Level 3
Remuneration: $108,595.00 - $112,114.00 per annum (+ super + 17.5% leave loading where applicable)
Hours per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ473588
Applications Close: 05 April 2024
Vaccination Category: A
Outstanding Experience. Infinite Opportunities.
Here in the Riverina, we treasure your skills and experience and we’re ready to roll out the red carpet to welcome you to town.
We’ve prepared oodles of goodies to help you move and settle in, including:
- Salary packaging up to $20,600 per annum tax free for living expenses! Take advantage of novated leasing a new car!
- Relocation assistance and accommodation support considerations
- Subsidised gym and leisure centre membership for you and your family
- Free confidential counselling services for you and your family
Craving a fresh start somewhere new and actually interesting? Join the incredible team in the Murrumbidgee District. Jump in at a comfort level that suits you: from state-of-the-art hospital that will remind you of the city, to small multi-disciplinary health facility where you literally get to do it all. No matter where you choose, your learning will be nurtured and you’ll be well supported to operate at the top of your scope.
And don’t worry - there are already oodles of young people here to welcome you: at work, in local clubs, at the pub, and down at the river!
There’s heaps to show your family when they come to visit, which is a breeze - you’ll be central to Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. (You can always pop home for the weekend on a quick flight if you find a break in your social calendar!)
Want to know more about the community of Wagga Wagga? Visit us here.
About Your Role
This Level 3 Social Worker role works as an integral part of the multidisciplinary Palliative Care Team, providing quality services to patients/clients of the Murrumbidgee Local Health District to meet their mental health and wellbeing needs post a Sudden Death. The clinician is responsible for supporting clients and their families who have recently been impacted by a recent death.
This response will include assessment, case formulation clinical intervention and evaluation. This intervention may will include individual and group modalities. The clinician should have experience delivering complex mental health intervention. They should have a comprehensive knowledge of grief and bereavement counselling techniques and theoretical practices. This role requires the need to provide time critical responses and crisis driven interventions to Sudden Deaths including suicide, accidents, sudden cardiac death, stroke and sudden infant death syndrome.
The clinician will have the ability to provide education and support to MLHD staff in relation to bereavement and the improved support of families post the sudden loss of their loved ones. They will also provide education and support to staff in relation to self-care and compassion fatigue when dealing with multiple bereavements in the workplace. This position sits within the multi-disciplinary Palliative Care team across the district to implement evidence-based practice and counselling interventions to families affected by a sudden bereavement. A combination of face to face clinical services, virtual services and consultative service delivery models will be used. The clinician will be able to demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning skills and operate with minimal direct clinical supervision.
Provision of education on relevant topics to both the Palliative Care Team and other teams in MLHD is also part of this role. As a level 3 clinician, supervision of students and provision of clinical supervision to other counsellors or Social Workers is part of the role.
Learn more about the role and requirements here.
Upgrade Your Career and Lifestyle at MLHD
Your application will require you to include a resume and cover letter outlining your skills and experience and why you are a good fit for this position.
Go on, you’ve earned a promotion, a world-class workplace, inspiring colleagues, award-winning staff and patient programs - all wrapped up in a rich tapestry of cultural treasures. Contact Sophie Absolon, Palliative Care Nurse Unit Manager on 0436 819 *** or ***************@health.nsw.gov.au now for a confidential chat.
New applicants must have completed the COVID-19 Primary vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate. Should a medical contraindication certificate be provided, ongoing employment post certificate expiry is conditional to meeting COVID-19 vaccination requirements.
MLHD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply, including Aboriginal People and people from racial, ethnic, or ethno-religious minority groups and people with disability.
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