Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

Mental Health Centres provides a safe place for everyone to start their emotional wellbeing journey.Life can leave anybody feeling distressed, anxious or overwhelmed. Our specialist clinicians and support staff are here to help.

Our team listens, advises and provides the support everyone who walks through our door needs, from counselling and therapy to practical help accessing other support and care services. Individualised solutions. No appointment, no referral and no Medicare card required.

Your role at St John of God Social Outreach
We are seeking applications for a Social Worker (Grade 2) to join our Armadale Medicare Mental Health Centre, on a permanent full-time basis.

This will be a client facing role where you will complete initial risk and mental state assessments, as well as ongoing brief therapeutic intervention.

The Position

• Provide evidence based senior Social Work services to patients/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. Provide Social work services to DVA, TAC and Workcover patients
• Ensures prioritisation and delegation of duties for own caseload and supervised staff.
• Contributes to the evaluation of the Social Work Service and Clinical Specialty, to ensure continuous improvement.
• Ensures effective multidisciplinary team work through professional communication and comprehensive liaison with colleagues, patient/carers and service providers.

You will have a tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers. The ideal candidate will bring senior clinical experience and demonstrated leadership in a specialised area of clinical practice within a healthcare setting.

Eligibility for Mental Health credentialing is essential. You will also possess the ability to provide professional supervision and mentorship to junior staff, fostering professional growth and competence within our caregiver team.

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

We can offer you

• Salary: $122,210 to $130,310 per annum, plus 11.5% Superannuation
• Permanent full-time, working 38 hours per week
• 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
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance

For all enquiries contact Ruth Lawrence, Manager Head to Health on 0499 630 103.

Applications close: May 23rd