Social Work Department- Social Work Team Leader [Grade 3- SC31-SC34]

Part time 2 days / 15.2 hours a week. Fixed term from 26 February 2020 until 23 March 2021

The Royal Women’s Hospital

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

Department/Unit Specific Overview

Social Work at The Women’s aims to improve the psychosocial health and well-being of women and babies attending The Women’s. Social Work embraces a view of women’s health that is holistic and considers women’s social, physical, emotional and cultural wellbeing.

Our Social Workers offer support to women through their maternity, neonatal, gynaecological and oncology experiences and provide information, counselling, support and advocacy for women in response to health and social needs.

Position Purpose
The Team Leader has a clinical leadership role in ensuring excellence in patient care, education and support of staff and students, and fostering staff development through the provision of supervision and other professional development opportunities. The Team Leader will also be responsible for leading and coordinating a Social Work team/s and for providing Social Work services to a Clinic.

Your contribution
The Team Leader has a clinical leadership role in ensuring excellence in patient care, education and support of staff and students, and fostering staff development through the provision of supervision and other professional development opportunities. The Team Leader will also be responsible for leading and coordinating a Social Work team/s and for providing Social Work services to a Clinic. Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

Provide leadership and supervision to your team of grade 2 and 1 social workers.
Lead the team in the provision of a high quality evidence-based Social Work service at The Women’s including psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, short-term counselling, bereavement care, advocacy, community liaison and referral, case management and discharge planning.
Ensure prompt assessment of new referrals and work closely with the multidisciplinary team involved in the care of women and their families.
Provide consultation on complex cases and demonstrate your expertise and skills in working with family violence, child protection, bereavement and other psychosocial issues.

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

Appropriate tertiary qualifications in Social Work
Eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
Experience in a team leader or supervisory role in a direct practice context.
An excellent understanding of theory, legislation and practice issues around family violence and child protection.

Our offering
When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.

Ready to make the move?

For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “apply now” below.

All appointments to the Women’s are subject to a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check.

Social Work Team Leader

The Royal Women's Hospital Parkville NSW 2337

The Royal Women's Hospital

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