St George Hospital - Social Worker Level 3 - Permanent Full Time

About the role

Join Our Compassionate and Skilled Social Work Team at St George Hospital. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Level 3 Social Worker to join our dedicated team in a permanent full-time role within the Women’s and Children’s team at St George Hospital. This is a unique opportunity to work in a specialist clinical area, supporting patients with their pregnancy journey including safety and risk assessments and pregnancy loss. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering holistic, person‑centred care as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) in the Obstetrics, Neonatology and Paediatric Service.

Responsibilities

• Providing advanced psychosocial assessment and intervention for patients and families who are pregnant.
• Supporting complex discharge planning and case management for safety and risk assessments and grief and bereavement care during pregnancy.
• Collaborating closely with medical, nursing, allied health, pastoral care and other external stakeholder teams (Police, DCJ, Child, Youth and Family teams) to ensure integrated care delivery and safety planning.
• Offering clinical supervision and mentoring to junior social work staff and students.
• Contributing to wellbeing activities, regular supervision and professional development opportunities for social work staff.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years’ experience working as a clinical social worker.
• Desirable previous experience in Women’s and Children’s medicine or Paediatrics.
• Extensive post‑graduate clinical experience in a relevant specialty area with a demonstrated commitment to ongoing clinical and professional learning.

Qualifications

Qualifications in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Service Health Professionals (State) Award and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).

Skills

• Excellent negotiation, decision‑making and advocacy skills, including the ability to interact constructively and collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders at all organisational levels.
• Ability to provide in‑depth advice and education to enhance service delivery and to guide and support others in providing service excellence, with the capacity to provide clinical supervision to other staff.
• Ability to work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team and to apply advanced reasoning skills and independent professional judgement when dealing with novel, complex or critical situations.
• Ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes, and to lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritise own and team work requirements effectively within agreed time frames.
• Demonstrated experience in providing crisis interventions and the ability to participate in the After Hours Crisis On‑Call Social Work Service.

Benefits

• Financial benefits – Salary packaging options: up to $9 K for living expenses, $2.6 K meal & entertainment, novated leasing; and discounted private health insurance.
• Work‑life balance – Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full‑time employees) in addition to annual leave.
• Professional growth – Learning and development opportunities, including in‑house training with RTO My Health Learning.
• Health & wellbeing – Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.

Pay

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