St George Hospital - Senior Social Worker: Transition Team
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3
Remuneration: $108,595 - $112,114 Per annum plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ487355
Position Tagline
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated social worker to join the Social Work Department at St George Hospital. This permanent full time position is located within the St George Hospital Transition Team.
In response to community need, the St George Hospital Transition Team has been established to support individualised, sustainable and safe care, and robust communication for patients transitioning from one level of care to another, including discharge to home or another care provider in the community.
The Transition Team Social Worker takes a clinical leadership role in supporting the complex case management of some of our most vulnerable patients. The role of the Transition Team is to ensure processes are in place as patients transition through each phase of their care, and provide support and expertise to clinical staff in managing the patient journey and mitigating avoidable discharge delays and representations.
The team consists of a CNC, Occupational Therapist and Social Worker with portfolios allocated amongst the team. Currently, the role of the social worker is to primarily focus on patients on residential aged care pathways and/or NCAT processes, however the beauty of the positions lies in its ability to adapt and change focus towards emerging issues within the organisation. In the future this may include safe admission avoidance in the ED, and RACF outreach for vulnerable patients discharged into temporary respite. The successful candidate will have the skills and ability to adapt and meet the evolving service needs. The position will also retain a small caseload to provide a direct clinical service and support job satisfaction for the successful candidate. Unique and progressive roles such as this don’t come up often, so we encourage interested persons to seriously consider this great opportunity. Applicants are invited to call and enquire about the position by calling 9113 2494.
Where you'll be working
The Social Work Department is comprised of a large, dedicated and skilled workforce providing a high level of evidence-based patient care. Our departmental wellbeing and social committee also ensures that we support ourselves as well as we support our patients and their families. The St George Hospital and Health Services is part of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. It is an accredited, principal teaching hospital of the University of New South Wales and is not only the largest hospital within the Local Health District, but is among the leading centres for trauma and emergency management in NSW. St George Hospital is located 14kms from the Sydney CBD with easy road links to Sydney’s north, south and west. Just a 10 minute walk from Kogarah train station, St George Hospital is very easily accessible by public transport. The local suburb of Kogarah offers employees with easy access to a range of local cafes, shops, services and supermarkets, including the waterside lifestyle at Brighton le Sands and shopping and cinemas at Westfield Hurstville.
What you'll be doing
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
Plan, coordinate, and implement in-depth levels of clinical expertise and extensive specialised knowledge within a social work specialty area in order to provide high quality counselling, advocacy and therapeutic care to the patients, their carers and families of the facility consistent with NSW Health, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards.
South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is committed to improving the care provided to our patients in line with our vision of Working together to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
All Category A workers and new recruits are required to receive one dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine annually to be considered compliant.
Category A workers and new recruits who are non-compliant with seasonal influenza vaccination or have a medical contraindication to influenza vaccinations must comply with all other infection control risk reduction strategies as directed while working in a Category A position.
SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and we have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can provide support. If you have any questions or would like guidance on the recruitment process, please contact the SESLHD Aboriginal Employment Team via email to: SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au
- Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award and eligibility for membership of the AASW
- Extensive post graduate clinical experience in relevant specialty area with a demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning
- 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
- Ability to provide in-depth advice and education to enhance service delivery and to guide and support others in providing service excellence, with the capacity to provide clinical supervision to other staff
- 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
- Ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff
- Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritise your own and team work requirements effectively within agreed time frames
- Demonstrated experience in providing crisis interventions and the ability to participate in the After Hours Crisis On-Call Social Work Service
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Scott Crehan on Scott.Crehan@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: 21 May 2024
