Senior Social Worker

Description:

Redland Hospital, Social Work are looking for a Senior Social Worker to join their team. This role involves delivering senior social work services at Bayside Health Service, focusing on the Redlands Domestic and Family Violence High Risk Team (DFV HRT). Responsibilities include providing clinical services, contributing to service improvement, monitoring outcomes, and training less experienced clinicians and assistants. The DFV HRT aims to enhance victim safety, manage perpetrator risk, reduce reoffending, facilitate information sharing, and improve agency accountability.

Job details

Position status Permanent Position type Full-time Occupational group Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support Classification HP4 Workplace Location Brisbane - South,Brisbane - East Job ad reference QLD/MS04557607 Closing date 23-Apr-2024 Yearly salary $124435 - $133901 Job duration Contact person Leesa Knott Contact details 07 3488 3247
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Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• Manage an allocated workload to deliver high level social work services, including assessment, intervention and evaluation within an interprofessional team in accordance with established clinical & departmental protocols, policies and procedures, utilising evidence-based practice and ethical standards and under clinical practice supervision or professional guidance of more senior staff.
• Liaise and work effectively in a professional manner with clients and their carers, other health professionals, students and external agencies to achieve a client centred approach, utilising negotiation and conflict resolution skills as required.
• Continually develop clinical practice knowledge, skills and expertise through self-directed learning, active learning within a team environment and engaging in professional development activities, including participating in the performance appraisal and development plans.
• Provide education, direction and supervision for routine tasks to less experienced staff, students and support staff, with the support of senior clinical staff. Where appropriate, act as primary supervisor for student training.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence , shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

Eligible health workers may qualify for a Workforce Attraction Incentive payment. To find out more and see if you are eligible visit: https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team .

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity .

Applicants are encouraged to apply online; please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.