Social Worker Part-time Permanent Closes: 28 March 2024 Classification: Health Professional Level 2 Salary: $70,679 - $97,028 plus superannuation Position No: 48608 - 02GJZ Directorate: Canberra Health Services Advertised (Gazettal date): 06 March 2024 Contact Officer: Rosemary Young on rosemary.youngact.gov.au or (02) 5124 4007 What can we offer you: City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital. Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions. Flexible working conditions. 11.5% Superannuation. VISA/Sponsorship for eligible candidates Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval). About the Role: The Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Service is looking for a hardworking, enthusiastic and skilled social worker to help us support children and young people and their families living with diabetes. This is a part-time (0.5 FTE) permanent role at HPO2 level. The Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Service (PEDS) provides coordinated and integrated care for children, young people and their families with diabetes and other endocrinological conditions. It is an interdisciplinary service delivered under a partnership model in which shared decision making and respectful and sensitive care are central to achieving outcomes. Services are delivered at the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children (Canberra Hospital Campus) and Gungahlin Community Health Centre. The Social Work service provides individual interventions for children and young people with diabetes and their families and carers. As a social worker you will provide clinical assessment, management, and evaluation of social work care to patients in tertiary and ambulatory care settings, with diabetes and other chronic conditions. The Social Worker will understand issues related to health and wellbeing and the impact on the person and their family/carer, including adjustment to change in their health. You will be an integral part of the Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes Service, collaborating with Endocrinologists, Diabetes Nurse Educators, and Diabetes Dietitians to provide interdisciplinary care for people with complex diabetes. This permanent part-time HPO2 Diabetes Social Worker position is 0.5 FTE (18.38 hours per week) and will be supervised and supported by the HPO3 Social worker. They will be operationally responsible to the PEDS Service Coordinator and report professionally to the Director of Allied Health in the Division of Women, Youth and Children. For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description. Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to: Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check. Provide evidence of a Degree in Social Work and professional membership or eligibility for professional membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required. Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy. Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals. 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. 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