Senior Social Worker

St Vincent’s Health Australia

Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia
$116,892.00 - $120,680.00 + super; salary pyckagin...
Biopsychosocial and risk assessments
Individual and family counselling
End-of-life care interventions
Join a team of Cancer Social Workers delivering individual, family, and group interventions to inpatients and outpatients within a multidisciplinary setting

Job Summary

  • Join a team of Cancer Social Workers delivering individual, family, and group interventions to inpatients and outpatients within a multidisciplinary setting.
  • Provide high-quality, area-specific social work services, including comprehensive biopsychosocial and risk assessments, individual and family counselling for adjustment to illness, and end-of-life care interventions.
  • Access to a government salary sacrifice program, making a proportion of your salary tax-free, and committed to financial support for educational development.

Matching Summary

Join a team of Cancer Social Workers delivering individual, family, and group interventions to inpatients and outpatients within a multidisciplinary setting.

Salary

$116,892.00 - $120,680.00 + Super; Salary Packaging; Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • biopsychosocial and risk assessments
  • individual and family counselling
  • end-of-life care interventions
  • multidisciplinary teamwork
  • clinical supervision to staff and students
  • 24-hour on-call Social Work roster

Nice-to-have

  • contribute to research initiatives
  • promote excellence in evidence-based practice
  • commitment to reconciliation

Key Requirements

  • Degree in Social Work
  • Eligible for AASW membership
  • Advanced clinical experience in tertiary hospital
  • Experience with cancer diagnosis or terminal illness
  • Skilled in psychosocial assessments
  • Skilled in crisis intervention
  • Skilled in counselling
  • Skilled in adjustment to illness
  • Skilled in case management
  • Skilled in short-term solution-focused interventions
  • Skilled in group work
  • Skilled in grief and loss
  • Skilled in discharge planning
  • Experience providing clinical supervision

Work Rights

Australian or New Zealand citizen or visa with work rights

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