AddressJoin our team as Social Worker for young families and make a profound and lasting impact on the lives of children and their parents, fostering healthier, happier, and more resilient communities!
Employment Type: Temporary Full Time until October 2025
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ500247
Closing Date: Sunday 7th July 2024
Social Worker
Sustaining NSW Families
Wallsend Campus
About the role:
Our Social Worker is considered a vital component of the SNF program, adept at functioning both independently and collaboratively.
In this position, you will exhibit your problem-solving abilities and implement a multidisciplinary team approach to plan, deliver, and coordinate patient care.
The Social Worker must build healthy therapeutic relationships, focusing on respect and empowerment for both clients and team members.
Where you’ll be working:
- Wallsend is a lively suburb of Newcastle close to a variety of shops and restaurants.
- The Sustaining NSW Families program is a structured home-based support and intervention program for children and families from pregnancy to 2 years of age.
- The successful candidate will be joining an enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team consisting of Nurses, Allied Health Clinicians, and Administration Support, all working toward supporting vulnerable families from pregnancy to a child’s age of 2 years.
Benefits:
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees).
- Four (4) weeks annual leave for temporary and permanent employees (pro-rata if part time).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members.
- Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals.
- Working for a highly regarded public health facility, where supporting the local community is at the forefront of our business strategy.
- Career Development opportunity.
- This role will be supported by the NUM Clinical Coordinator and be orientated to the role.
- In this role you will engage in group and individual clinical supervision. Peer social work support along with support from the Nurse Manager of Child and Family Health Service is available.
Requirements:
Our successful candidate will possess the following:
- Holds as a minimum a bachelor’s degree in social work which provides eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers, or other qualification deemed equivalent by the employer.
- Eligibility to drive in NSW and willingness and ability to travel for work purposes.
About you:
- You are enthusiastic and have significant demonstrable experience working with children and families to enable them to work autonomously, utilise independent clinical reasoning, attend psychosocial assessments, and advocate on behalf of the families.
- You will need to demonstrate a proven ability to work effectively as part of a team.
Additional information:
- An eligibility list will be created for future temporary full or part time vacancies.
- We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
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