Social Worker - Medicare Mental Health Centre

Your role at St John of God Social Outreach We are looking to recruit a Social Worker (Grade 2) to support our Armadale Medicare Mental Health Centre, on a permanent full-time basis.

Our team provides a safe and welcoming spaces for locals to walk in and access free mental health support and services - no referral, Medicare card or appointment needed.

Staffed by qualified mental health professionals and people with lived experience, the centres provide immediate support to adults in distress, including their families, friends and carers. We can also connect people with other support services, such as employment assistance, to support them in the future.

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 effective multidisciplinary teamwork through professional communication and comprehensive liaison with colleagues, consumers/carers and service providers. Ensures maintenance of appropriate clinical documentation and clinical information systems.

Actively intervene with appropriate counselling, support, education, community liaison and referrals. Liaise with consumers and their carers to identify social support requirements.

Contribute to effective and efficient consumer discharge planning via timely collaboration and communication with the multi-disciplinary team, the consumer and their careers.

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. 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: $126,487 to $134,871 plus 12% superannuation Permanent full-time | 38 hours per week | 10 shifts per fortnight 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 Liam Dekker, Manager (South) on 0437 020 195.

If suitable applicants are identified advertisement may close prior to listed date and screening/interviews may commence throughout the advertising process. At St John of God Social Outreach, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community. At St John of God Health Care we support you to be the best health care professional or support worker you can be.

We believe positive culture drives performance, so we are focussed on building collaborative and supportive team environments, providing opportunities for development and promotion, and ensuring our leaders are visible and accessible.

As one of the largest Catholic providers of health care services in Australia, St John of God Health Care is a great place to work with a host of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, and a great work life balance.

Our caregivers come from diverse backgrounds and belief systems and you don’t need to be Catholic to work with us.