Social Worker - Hawkesbury District Hospital

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working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeedand develop in your chosen career role.

About Us

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean and Blue Mountains and Lithgow Region. 

Hawkesbury District Health Service is a teaching hospital in Windsor NSW, providing acute, community and allied health services for the local community and surrounding districts. The service provides 24-hour emergency, medical, surgical, diagnostic, maternity, neonatal, paediatric, palliative, intensive and coronary care services.

The Social Work service looks at the complex interactions between individuals as patients, their environment outside the hospital, and the treatment process within the hospital setting. It recognises that illness and admission to hospital involves adjustment within the individual and within his/her relationships with their outside world. It is in this context that social work takes a central role in the hospital goal of fostering the psychological, emotional, and social well-being of patients.

The Hawkesbury Allied Health team is seeking to engage a Social Worker. The Social Worker will assist is in identifying and dealing with psychosocial problems that arise because of, or that are contributing to problems in adjusting to the crisis of illness, treatment, and hospitalisation. The role will also help identify and deal with psychosocial problems that hinder the smooth transition of patients through the hospital treatment system.The successful incumbent will be a part of the multidisciplinary health team that provides crisis intervention, psychosocial assessment, general counselling, advocacy, case management, therapeutic and grief/loss counselling, and complex discharge planning. Apply Today!

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees 

·         Accrued Day Off (ADO) (full time employees only)

·         Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging

·         Novated Leasing

·        Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year

·         Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members

·         Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age. 

What you will bring to the role:

1. Degree in Social Work with eligibility for membership of the AASW
2. Demonstrated understanding of the psycho- social impact of unexpected hospitalisation due to illness, accident or trauma
3. Experience in working in an acute hospital setting
4. Demonstrated ability to complete psychosocial assessments and to formulate and implement appropriate discharge and care plan in a short time frame for patients in an inpatient setting
5. Demonstrated ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
6. High level of written and oral communication skills (including demonstrated skills in advocacy, mediation, and conflict resolution)
7. Current Drivers Licence and willingness to use for work purpose travel.

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For role related queries or questions contact Kaye Borg on *********@sjog.org.au