About the role

• This newly established Social Work position is based at Caboolture Hospital Emergency Department (ED), within the Metro North Health (MNH) Social Work Services. This role is designed to provide overnight clinical support to vulnerable persons and/or dependents and caregivers. This may include high-risk, complex psychosocial cases including cases involving child protection, significant injury or illness, sudden death, sexual assault, domestic and family violence, behavioural disturbances, homelessness, substance misuse and at-risk adolescents.
• Triage and deliver high quality social work clinical services as part of the multidisciplinary team to patients of Caboolture Hospital Emergency Department, to optimise the psychosocial outcomes for patients and their families.
• Ensure efficient social work service delivery and contribute to organisational patient flow strategies.
• Provide leadership in professional education, practice supervision and mentoring of less experienced staff and students within Emergency Departments and Social Work teams across MNH.
• Contribute to research and quality improvement initiatives within the Emergency stream and/or MNH Social Work Services.
• This role will contribute to the evaluation of the after-hours service to, to inform a planned incremental, multiyear approach to extending social work cover to 24/7 across all MNH Emergency Departments (ED).

About you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can demonstrate the following:

• Respect – demonstrates interpersonal savvy, manages conflict appropriately, communicates effectively and balances the needs of all stakeholders with utmost respect to all people at all times
• Teamwork – collaborates effectively, develops talent, values differences and builds effective teams to bring about best use of resources to deliver healthcare services. Demonstrated ability to effectively participate in social work and multidisciplinary teams under the clinical practice supervision of more senior practitioners and to communicate, negotiate and advocate across teams, the organisation and external agencies.
• Compassion – is patient / client focussed, demonstrates self-awareness and the effects of behaviour on others, deals with or manages ambiguity and complexity, demonstrates resilience in the delivery of patient services or support in the delivery of services to patients. Ability to contribute to a positive work culture and to actively support quality human resource management practices including employment equity, anti-discrimination, occupational health and safety, and ethical behaviour.
• High Performance – cultivates innovation, is action oriented, drives results and supports Metro North Health's vision and purpose to exceed expectations of our patients and stakeholders. Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in social work practice, theoretical perspectives, social systems, legislation and policies relevant to healthcare obtained through relevant tertiary education.
• Integrity – demonstrates sound decision quality, ensures accountability, demonstrates courage in the face of adversity and works effectively / manages complexity to ensure work output and decisions are ethical and invariably of a high standard. Ability to apply established ethical principles and practice standards to core social work clinical services and social work tasks

A tertiary degree (or equivalent) qualification in Social work as recognised by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).

Appointment to this position requires proof of qualification and registration or membership with the appropriate registration authority or association. Certified copies of the required information must be provided to the appropriate supervisor/ manager, prior to the commencement of clinical duties.

Job ad reference number:CAB559046

Close date: Thursday 2^nd May 2024

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED VIA THIRD PARTIES (RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ETC.) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED