Head of Department- Social Work Level 5 - Royal Hospital for Women

1. Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award, current registration with the Australia Association of Social Workers and extensive post graduate clinical experience in Women's Health/ Child Health Services.
2. Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, management, mentoring and capacity building within a social work department including an ability to determine priorities for others and delegate tasks to achieve work objectives.
3. Ability to provide supervision, ongoing performance management and the development of evidence based reflective social work practice.
4. Excellent negotiation, decision making and advocacy skills including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders throughout all organisational levels
5. Ability to provide high level advice and education to enhance service delivery including a capacity to provide consultancy on psychosocial issues within women's health and actively contribute to policy development and service review.
6. Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with situations of a novel, complex or critical nature
7. Ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff
8. Demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning

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Applications Close: 25/09/2023