Social Worker (G2) - Acute And Women's And Children's

About Monash Health

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We are proud to provide healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire life-span from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 employees work at over 40 care locations across south eastern Melbourne, including Monash Medical Centre, Monash Children’s Hospital, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Kingston Centre, Cranbourne Centre, and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities. For more information please visit www.monashhealth.org.

About the Role

Monash Health at Casey Hospital has expanded capacity to deliver quality critical healthcare. The expansion facilitates care across Clayton, Dandenong, Moorabbin and Casey sites with increase in complexity of services provided, including Subacute, General Medicine and specialty wards.

We have exciting opportunities to appoint an experienced Social Work professional to a full time in Acute fixed term for 6 months and a part time role (3 days per week) in the Women's and Children's team at Casey Hospital for 12 months. With unique opportunities to experience acute, subacute and women’s and children’s and ED. We pride ourselves on a culture of supporting our staff across all teams and all sites and collaborating amongst the larger social work department at Monash health.

About You

You are a dynamic Social Work professional who is passionate about making a positive contribution to the health of your patients. Described as enthusiastic and motivated to perform at your best every day, you demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

You can also demonstrate:

• Your dedication to safe best practice and quality care
• An unwavering commitment to delivering patient centred care
• Enthusiasm and a positive attitude to your work, compassion and the ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team
• Motivation to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence

What you need

An Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) accredited Bachelor Degree or entry level Master’s Degree of Social Work that provides eligibility for membership of the AASW. All candidates require Australian working rights

What we offer:

• Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills and knowledge base
• Avenues to further develop your leadership and project management skills
• Mentorship and career guidance
• Support to attend relevant forums and conferences
• A supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

This as a great opportunity to further develop your skills and experience in a state of the art facility at Casey Hospital.

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Brooke Webb, Social Work Manager on 0417 319 163 or email brooke.webb2@monashhealth.org.

Monash Health is a great place to work

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

• salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
• a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
• free flu vaccinations
• private health insurance at discounted rates
• health imaging services
• + more

Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing more than 20,000 people who work across 40 locations delivering healthcare services through our five hospitals and our extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities.

We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and ICare values.

How to Apply:

We’re only able to accept applications submitted via the Monash Health online Mercury System.

For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please refer to attached ‘Application Guide’ located under Position Documents.