Senior Social Worker Health Professional Level 3 Full-time Permanent Closes: 29 March 2024 Classification: Health Professional Level 3 Salary: $99,819 - $105,180 plus superannuation Position No: LP6844, Several - 02GQS Directorate: Canberra Health Services Advertised (Gazettal date): 13 March 2024 Contact Officer: Karen Dell on karen.dellact.gov.au or 062016314 What can we offer you: ● City living without the traffic - click her to see why you should live in Canberra. ● Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions. ● Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions. ● Flexible working conditions. ● 11.5% Superannuation. About the Hospital: North Canberra Hospital (formerly Calvary Public Hospital Bruce) and Clare Holland House are now run and operated by Canberra Health Services (CHS) This is a significant milestone as the ACT Government moves towards delivering a new billion-dollar hospital on Canberra's Northside. The current North Canberra Hospital is a level 4 hospital that provides a range of acute and sub-acute services including community based care to the residents of the northside of Canberra and Southern NSW. North Canberra Hospital (NCH) is a 270 public hospital located in Canberra's expanding northside. North Canberra Hospital operates a 24 hour Emergency Department. Inpatient services include general medicine, surgery, maternity, mental health and critical care. Other service modalities include day surgery, specialist outpatient clinics, Hospital in the Home and the Geriatric Rapid Acute Care Evaluation service that reaches into aged care facilities across the ACT. The new Northside Hospital will be built on the existing Calvary Hospital campus in Bruce. It will be a modern, state-of-the-art hospital for patients, visitors and its workforce and will provide more beds and increased services. Until then, it's business as usual at the NCH, and we'll keep providing high-quality care to our patients and community. About the role: Social Work within Allied Health, North Canberra Hospital, provides services to a range of clients in the Emergency Department, acute inpatient and specialised outpatient settings. Our social workers work closely with patients, carers, referrers, other health professionals and multidisciplinary teams to achieve safe, high quality patient care. Social workers play a key role in the multidisciplinary management of patients across the care continuum. This position works in collaboration with the social work and multidisciplinary team to deliver services, supporting patient flow and maximising patient outcomes. This role will support education /professional growth of junior social workers and students. Professional supervision and professional development is provided through team structures, supervision support, competency based assessments and professional development opportunities. You will be required to participate in restricted on-call rosters from time to time. A merit pool will be developed from this round and may be used to fill vacancies which occur over the next 12 months. Under limited direction of the Director of Social Work/ Social Work Team Leaders you will perform clinical social work duties at North Canberra Hospital. You will: Provide a high level of appropriate skilled clinical assessment and psychosocial interventions across a range of clinical areas, including individual and group work to consumers and carers. Exercise independent professional judgment in solving problems and managing cases where principles, procedures and techniques require expansion, adaptation or modification. Liaise with patients, carers and service providers, to enhance and improve clinical outcomes and develop partnerships for health promotion and other service activities identified in the business plan. Actively contribute to the supervision and education of staff and students. Actively participate in supervision, continuing professional development and performance management. Actively contribute to the implementation of clinical governance activity, quality improvement projects, research programs and health promotion in areas relevant to service. Actively participate in team meetings, complete clinical and administrative data collection and case records to a consistent high standard. Practice in accordance with the professional body's code of conduct, practice standards and organisational guidelines and legislative requirements. Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation. About you: Requirements/Qualifications: North Canberra Hospital is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA are particularly encouraged to apply. Mandatory Relevant tertiary qualifications and a minimum of 3 years' experience working professionally in Social Work. Degree in Social Work Professional membership or eligibility for professional membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) The successful applicant will need to be available for irregular weekend and after-hours work on a roster and will be required to work shutdown CHS is leading the drive to digitally transform health service delivery in Australia through the implementation of a territory wide Digital Health Record. Computer literacy skills are required which are relevant to this role as you will be responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Digital Health Record and/or other Information Technology systems; once proficient, you will need to remain current with changes, updates and contingencies. Highly Desirable Have an understanding of how the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) indicators align with this role. Drivers licence Fulfil the responsibilities of this role in alignment to the CHS Exceptional Care Framework, Clinical Governance Framework, Partnering With Consumers Framework and all other related frameworks. Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to: Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required. Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check. Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy. For more information on this position and how to apply "click here" Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website. Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA are particularly encouraged to apply. Canberra Hospital Expansion Project - CHS is constructing a new critical services building called 'Building 5' which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory's history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution. North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.