Senior Social Worker (Level 5), Treatment and Rehabilitation Clinic - Surry Hills Justice Health - PPT (16hpw)

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Social Worker Lvl 5
Remuneration: $65.89 - $67.49 per hour
Hours Per Week: 16
Requisition ID: REQ598406


Position Title: Senior Social Worker (Level 5), Treatment and Rehabilitation Clinic - Surry Hills Justice Health - PPT (16hpw)

Just the place to grow your career and be part of a valued team delivering care where it's needed most!

If you're passionate about delivering healthcare with the greatest impact, then come and join us at Justice Health NSW. Be part of a supportive environment, where you can apply your skills to address complex healthcare needs while broadening your treatment capabilities to maximise patient outcomes. 

Justice Health NSW is a challenging yet rewarding place to take your career even further. With industry-leading safety standards, you can focus on doing your best work alongside skilled colleagues while gaining job training to progress your career.

The Role

The Treatment and Rehabilitation Clinic (TRC) is one of three services within the NSW Community Forensic Mental Health Service (CFMHS). The TRC adopts a multi-disciplinary, collaborative model of care focused on recovery, rehabilitation, and community safety. It provides evidence-based biopsychosocial treatment and rehabilitation services to support people in achieving recovery from complex disorders that result in problematic behaviours including offending. 

The TRC is a community-based clinic but will also provide initial prison in-reach services to support future clinic patients, to optimise safety and treatment success. The initial focus of the service will be the provision of evidence-based assessment and treatment for problem sexual behaviours. In the longer term, the clinic will also focus on other problem behaviours.

The Senior Social Worker TRC is primarily responsible for delivering specialist forensic mental health care, which considers peoples' clinical, psychosocial and risk vulnerabilities while applying best practice clinical tools. The Senior Social Worker will provide specialist assessment, formulation and intervention to people presenting with problem behaviours and their families/carers or other supports. Interventions will be provided individually, in groups, and via virtual health/telehealth as needed. The Senior Social Worker will assist in the development and evaluation of therapeutic programs and provide supervision, consultation and training to other social workers or allied health staff within the organisation. The Senior Social Worker will work collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team and will also engage with other treating teams and key stakeholders to optimise a patient’s social functioning, treatment and recovery, and build capacity to manage problem behaviours.

Essential Requirements:

o   Tertiary Degree in Social Work or other equivalent qualification providing eligibility for membership of Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). 

o   Demonstrated extensive experience in forensic mental health practice, specifically risk assessment, management and treatment of problematic behaviours. 

o   Demonstrated extensive experience in providing clinical supervision and/or training. 

Our service and location:

The Treatment and Rehabilitation Clinic (TRC) is one of three services within the NSW Community Forensic Mental Health Service (CFMHS). The TRC adopts a multi-disciplinary, collaborative model of care focused on recovery, rehabilitation, and community safety. It provides evidence-based biopsychosocial treatment and rehabilitation services to support people in achieving recovery from complex disorders that result in problematic behaviours including offending.   
 
The TRC is a community-based clinic but will also provide initial prison in-reach services to support future clinic patients, to optimise safety and treatment success. The initial focus of the service will be the provision of evidence-based assessment and treatment for problem sexual behaviours. In the longer term, the clinic will also focus on other problem behaviours.

Salary & Benefits

Your salary plus superannuation is just the beginning. 

You’ll have access to:

·       Additional allowances of up to $4 per hour may be applicable

·        Eligibility for Fitness Passport, Salary Packaging, and Novated Leasing options.

·        Genuine training, education, professional development, and career progression opportunities.

·        Support from a passionate & enthusiastic management team.

Diversity & Inclusivity

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We employ all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability.