Social Worker - Medicare Mental Health Centre

We are looking to recruit a Social Worker (Grade 2) to support our Armadale Medicare Mental Health Centre, on a permanent full-time basis.

Our team provides a safe and welcoming spaces for locals to walk in and access free mental health support and services - no referral, Medicare card or appointment needed. Staffed by qualified mental health professionals and people with lived experience, the centres provide immediate support to adults in distress, including their families, friends and carers. We can also connect people with other support services, such as employment assistance, to support them in the future.

The Position

• Provide evidence based senior Social Work services to consumers/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.

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

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

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

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

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

You will have senior clinical experience and leadership in a specialised area of practice within a healthcare setting, ability to undertake professional supervision and/or mentor junior staff and develop evidence based, innovative clinical practices and initiation of quality improvement activities.

Successful applicants will have tertiary qualifications in Social Work and be eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Work and eligible for Mental Health credentialing.

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

We can offer:

• Salary: $126,487 to $134,871 plus 12% superannuation

• Permanent full-time | 38 hours per week | 10 shifts per fortnight

• 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 & well-being programs

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

For enquiries, please contact Liam Dekker, Manager (South) on 0437 020 195.

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