Senior Social Worker

Your role at St John of God Midland Private Hospital

Be part of something exceptional from the very beginning. As we prepare to open a brand-new state-of-the-art private hospital this August, we are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Social Worker to join our multidisciplinary team to play a key role in shaping high quality Social Work services from the ground up.

The Senior Social Worker works alongside the multi-disciplinary team to provide social work services to clients/patients. Practices as a Social Worker and ensures practice is in accordance with the Australian Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics and Practice Guidelines and SJGHC policies and guidelines.

The Senior Social Worker is expected to work independently and demonstrate a specialist level of knowledge and depth of experience. The Senior Social Worker is expected to initiate and participate in teaching, training, research and quality activities, to supervise students and supervise and mentor junior caregivers.

The Position

• Provide evidence based senior Social Work services to patients/carers within the clinical specialty area/s.

• Provide Social Work assessment, intervention and evaluation at an advanced practice level for complex and general caseload/s. Provide Social work services to DVA, TAC and Workcover patients.

• Ensures prioritisation and delegation of duties for own caseload and supervised staff.

• Contributes to the evaluation of the Social Work Service and Clinical Specialty, to ensure continuous improvement.

• Ensures effective multidisciplinary teamwork through professional communication and comprehensive liaison with colleagues, patient/carers and service providers.

• Ensures maintenance of appropriate clinical documentation and clinical information systems.

• Demonstrates reflective practice and commitment to professional development.

• Supports Social Work service through communicating issues and ideas for enhancing the service (through to the Allied Health Manager). 

• Supervision of junior social work caregivers and Welfare Officers.

• Supports the profession through Social Work student learning.

• Actively intervene with appropriate counselling, support, education, community liaison and referrals.

• Liaise with compensable bodies, financial institutions and external care agencies where appropriate

• Liaise with patients and their carers to identify social support requirements.

• Contribute to effective and efficient patient discharge planning via timely collaboration and communication with the multi-disciplinary team, the patient and their carers.

• Maintain a working knowledge of supported accommodation and nursing home facilities and patient eligibility.

• Maintain current knowledge of legislation and policies relating to discharging patients.

• Maintain current knowledge of legislation and policies relating to DVA and Compensable patients (TAC & Workcover).

• Conduct quality audits that collect quantitative and qualitative data, which can be used toward improvement in patient care.

You will hold a tertiary qualification in Social Work and be eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Work. You will have demonstrated senior clinical experience and leadership in a specialised area of clinical practice within a healthcare setting.

To succeed you will have the ability to undertake professional supervision and/or mentor junior staff and develop evidence based and innovative clinical practices.

Above all, people will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

About the new Midland Private Hospital 

• A brand-new purpose-built state-of-the-art facility, currently under construction, located just 300 metres from the St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals Campus. 

• A comprehensive range of medical and surgical services, with interventional cardiology being offered for the first time in the region

​The hospital will feature:

• 96 overnight inpatient beds, including a six-bed critical care/high dependency unit

• 33 bed/chair short stay and day procedure unit

• Eight operating theatres

• An Angiography Suite

We can offer you

• Salary: $130,917 to $139,591 (pro rata for part time) plus 12% superannuation

• Permanent part-time position (0.2 FTE)

• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:

  • Novated leasing 

  • work related expenses

  • self-education and

  • additional superannuation

• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave and well-being programs

• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance

• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Access to fitness and wellbeing benefits through Fitness Passport

All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.

For enquiries please contact Luke Heard-Stone, Allied Health Manager on 0401 768 497

If suitable applicants are identified the advertisement may close prior to listed date and screening/interviews may commence throughout the advertising process.

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.