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 27 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,500 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

St John of God Mental Wellbeing Services makes accessing high-quality mental wellbeing care and support easy and cost-free. Anyone can experience stress or trauma. And at St John of God Mental Wellbeing Services, we believe everyone has the right to high-quality mental health care. Our clinical, community health and support professionals offer practical, personalised counselling and strategies built on evidence-based best practice that empower people to deal with the challenges they face and live the life they want.

Your role at St John of God Social Outreach
We are looking to hire a Mental Health Social Worker (Grade 2) on a permanent part-time basis to join our Mental Wellbeing Services in Bendigo, Victoria.

Our team comes from a range of clinical, health and community care backgrounds. Together, we offer an equally broad range of evidence-based mental health support and education, counselling and psychotherapy services.

All delivered in the community. All tailored to suit the individuals and families that need them. All in partnership with general practitioners and other local healthcare providers.

You will be expected to work independently and demonstrate a specialist level knowledge and depth of experience, participate in teaching, training and research, to supervisor students and mentor junior caregivers.

The Position

• Provide evidence based senior Social Work services to consumers/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.
• Ensures prioritisation and delegation of duties for own caseload and supervised caregivers.
• 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, consumers/carers and service providers.
• Ensures maintenance of appropriate clinical documentation and clinical information systems.
• Demonstrates reflective practice and commitment to professional development.
• Supports Social Work service through communicating issues and ideas for enhancing the service (through to the coordinator of Social Work).

You will have senior clinical experience and leadership in a specialised area of practice within a healthcare setting, ability to undertake professional supervision and/or mentor junior staff and develop evidence based, innovative clinical practices and initiation of quality improvement activities.

Successful applicants will have tertiary qualifications in Social Work and be eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Work and eligible for Mental Health credentialing.

Must be eligible for a Medicare provider number.

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

We can offer:

• Salary: $92,652 to $110,805 (pro-rata for part-time) plus 11.5% superannuation
• Permanent part-time working 22.5 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
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs
• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance

For enquiries, please contact Janet Foggin, Manager Mental Wellbeing & Raphael Services VIC on 0476 815 588.

St John of God Social Outreach is committed to providing a safe environment for all children and vulnerable people in its care and proactively takes measures to protect children/vulnerable people from abuse.

If suitable candidates are identified, shortlisting and interviews may begin before the advertisement closes