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SalaryEmployment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 4
Remuneration: $117,544 - $120,393 Per Annum + 11% Super + Salary Packaging
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ462690
Applications Close: Monday, 29th January 2024
Social Worker - Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Charlestown
Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD) Mental Health Services delivers mental health care across the Hunter New England Health district which covers metropolitan, regional and rural areas of NSW. It employees over 1700 mental health staff members who deliver comprehensive and specialist mental health services. We are committed to serving mental health consumers, carers and their families, to lived experience and co-design, and to providing culturally diverse, safe and inclusive care.
Mental Health services provide a range of inpatient services and community mental health care, from prevention and early intervention, to treatment, rehabilitation and continuing care. The focus of these services is to provide timely and effective care and to empower consumers to become resilient, independent and to self-manage their illness and recovery. Our services covers all age groups including child and adolescent, adult and older people.
HNEMH are committed to their staff and provide orientation, training and education, professional development, clinical and profession supervision, and run an active research and evaluation program.
About the role:
- An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Social Worker to be appointed to the role of Social Worker L4, based at CAMHS Lake Macquarie in Charlestown.
- As a Senior L4 Social Worker within CAMHS you will provide a high quality clinical and case management service to children, young people and their families/caregivers. The role of the Social Worker in this setting includes but not limited to:
- Leading activities aimed at continually improving the delivery of clinical care related to the field of expertise
- Engaging with ongoing education and development activities including regular professional practice supervision
- Actively contributing to working groups/projects aimed at enhancing service delivery
- This role will be supported by CAMHS Senior Social Worker, Clinical Transition Educator, and the team’s Clinical Leader
- You will also be provided with clinical supervision and ongoing training and education opportunities to support your professional development.
- An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies.
- Job share / part time arrangements will be considered.
- Charlestown Mental Health Service is located in Lake Macquarie and is just a short 20-minute drive to Newcastle and 90-minute drive to Sydney.
- Lakes Macquarie is ideal for water sports and sits next to stunning ocean beaches.
- The natural bushland surrounding Lake Macquarie offers an ideal haven for hiking enthusiasts and boating aficionados alike. Whether you're into bushwalking, canoeing, kayaking, or other water sports, this region provides a paradise of outdoor activities waiting to be explored.
- Four weeks annual leave
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year
- Superannuation contributions 11%
- Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals
Our ideal candidate will possess the following attributes:
- Enthusiastic, capable and will have a passion for supporting children, young people, their families and carers with their mental health.
- An understanding of principles of trauma informed care and its application to therapeutic interventions and experience working with complex families is highly desirable.
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For role related queries or questions contact
- Robert Redpath (Clinical Leader – CAMHS) on 4904 9100 or via Robert.Redpath@health.nsw.gov.au
- John Mowatt (CAMHS Community Services Manager) on 0437 675 844 or via John.Mowatt@health.nsw.gov.au
- Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description (link below). For assistance addressing selection criteria visit:
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for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy. * All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (AIR Immunisation History Statement) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
- To be eligible for permanent employment in this position you must be an Australian Citizen, or a permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport. Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable local candidate is identified for the position; in this instance, you may only be offered employment in line with the conditions and expiry date of your visa.
- We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
- Acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement (IHS), or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate, or AIR COVID-19 and Influenza IHS. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations
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