Social Worker Casual

Melbourne - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Epworth Richmond Acute and Continuing Care Services are jointly advertising for Casual Grade 2 Social Workers to join our workforce with opportunities across both services.

These casual roles provide workforce flexibility to support periods of fluctuating workload and service demand helping to reduce patient wait times and ensure timely assessment intervention and followup care. There will be a need to work across sites - Richmond Hawthorn and Camberwell as the needs arise.

In these Grade 2 casual clinical roles you will provide Social Work services to acute hospital patients at Epworth Richmond and support Continuing Care services at Epworth Hawthorn Camberwell and Richmond.

You will manage an independent and varied clinical caseload with exposure to:

Medical and surgical patients
Oncology
Critical care
Brain injury
Multi trauma
Rehabilitation and complex care
Aged Care

You will work within a small enthusiastic and cohesive Social Work team contributing to highquality care for some of our most vulnerable patients.

You will make an impact by:

Providing independent evidencebased psychosocial assessment and intervention
Undertaking comprehensive discharge planning and contribute to optimal patient flow
Identifying and manage psychosocial risk ensuring safe and effective practice
Working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams
Demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness in a dynamic acutecare environment
Contributing positively to team culture quality activities and service improvement

You are a capable and confident Social Worker with experience in hospitalbased practice who is comfortable managing a clinical caseload.

You are adaptable professional and regularly available for weekday casual shifts responding to prevailing clinical demand.

Position Description Inherent Requirements

Qualifications :

Bachelor or Master of Social Work
Eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
Demonstrated experience in an acute hospital and/or rehabilitation setting
Experience working with complex patients and families
Strong communication assessment and organisational skills

Additional Information :

At Epworth its a community

Its the sense of belonging and being part of an organisation and a team that works to make sure that every patient addition to this you will have access to:

Epworths enhanced Not for Profit status (and not available in the public sector) provides the opportunity for employees to salary package up to $15900 pre-tax annually leading to greater take home pay
The largest educational scholarship program of its kind in Australia
Ability to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave
Reduced cost of health services for you and your family at Epworth
Relocation assistance is available for approved candidates

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Please Note: Applications will be reviewed as they are received and the position may be filled before the application closing date.

It is a condition of employment with Epworth HealthCare subject to reasonable exemptions that you have had an annual Influenza vaccination where this is required under Epworth policy.

As a child safe organisation all successful applicants are required to satisfactorily clear a National Police Check (conducted by Epworth) and may be required to hold a valid employee Working with Children Check (provided by you).

At Epworth we believe inclusion and diversity are essential to our culture and values. We focus on fairness and opportunity for all across race ability ethnicity gender age sexuality cultures and beliefs that reflect the communities we work in. At Epworth we care.

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Employment Type :

Casual

Epworth Richmond Acute and Continuing Care Services are jointly advertising for Casual Grade 2 Social Workers to join our workforce with opportunities across both services. These casual roles provide workforce flexibility to support periods of fluctuating workload and service demand helping to reduc...