An Eligibility List (E-List) or talent pool may be created from this recruitment episode to assist in filling future permanent, temporary, or casual full-time and part-time positions. 

The Central Coast Local Health District is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Social Worker Level 5 to join our team as an Inpatient Site Manager at Wyong Hospital. In this permanent full-time role, you will provide leadership and operational management to our inpatient social work team, ensuring high-quality, patient-centered care that supports optimal health outcomes for patients and their families. With a focus on managing complex psychosocial cases, you will play a pivotal role in delivering trauma-informed, culturally responsive care, while collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams across the hospital. This is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate your clinical expertise, leadership abilities, and passion for service improvement in a dynamic hospital environment.

As the Inpatient Site Manager, you will lead and manage the Inpatient Social Work team, ensuring that services are delivered in accordance with relevant policies, procedures, and best practice standards. Your role will involve providing complex psychosocial assessments, crisis interventions, and case management services to patients and their families, particularly in cases of trauma, grief, loss, and domestic violence. You will work autonomously to address novel and critical situations, offering expert guidance and solutions. In addition to direct service delivery, you will play a key role in team development, providing clinical supervision to junior social workers and facilitating ongoing education and training initiatives. You will also be responsible for overseeing service planning, quality improvement, and the smooth transition of patients from hospital to community-based services.

Your leadership will be essential in fostering a collaborative and supportive environment, ensuring that the social work team is equipped to meet the needs of patients across a variety of clinical specialties. You will actively contribute to the development and evaluation of social work services, advocating for the integration of evidence-based practices and patient-centered care.

About You 

• You must have a tertiary qualifications in Social Work and be eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
• You have advanced experience in psychosocial assessments and crisis management.
• You have extensive experience in providing psychosocial, risk assessment, and crisis case management services.
• You have strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to adapt communication style to suit different audiences,along with proficiency in using information technology to enhance patient care.

Where You’ll Be Working 

This role will be based at Wyong Hospital within the Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD), a vibrant and rapidly growing region. As an integral member of the hospital’s multidisciplinary team, you will work in a dynamic and fast-paced clinical environment, where you will engage with a diverse range of patients and clinical specialties. The role involves close collaboration with hospital management, senior clinicians, and external service partners to enhance service delivery and ensure the highest quality care for patients. You may also be required to work across other CCLHD facilities as needed, including participation in the Social Work Service After Hours Manager on Duty (AH-MoD) roster. This offers a diverse and varied working experience, allowing you to have a broader impact within the district.

As the leading healthcare provider in the region, Central Coast Local Health District is well known for its dedication to high quality patient care and community services. CCLHD provides the community of the Central Coast with a caring environment dedicated to improving the patient journey. 

What we Offer 

• Work for the largest employer on the Central Coast 
• Full-time employees receive an Additional Day Off (ADO) through our ADO policy and 17.5% Leave Loading on Full Time positions. 
• Full Salary Packaging services are provided - which means you save more tax. 
• Discounted Fitness Passport to balance your wellbeing.
• Professional Development through access to experienced and quality leadership. 
• Social Club. 
• Access to Wellbeing programs and support through our Employee Assistance Program. 

Child Safe Standard Commitment 

Central Coast Local Health District is committed to ensuring child safety in all our health services, and hospitals in every ward, emergency department, waiting room, clinic as well as our online and virtual spaces. The Central Coast Local Health District has already taken significant steps to keep children safe, though more work needs to be done to ensure that child safety is embedded in all the care that we deliver and is across all systems, policies and processes.  The Child Safe Standards provide a framework that outlines the essential elements of Child Safe organisations. Through the application of the Child Safe Standards our organisation will continue to build a culture where abuse is prevented, responded to and reported. We arecommitted to promoting the rights of children and young people and empowering and promoting their voices within the Central Coast.  Child Safety is everyone’s responsibility.

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion  
 
At Central Coast Local Health District, we are committed to creating a diverse, and inclusive environment which reflects the community and customers we serve. We actively promote the employment of women, people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQ+ community and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. 

If you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and would like assistance with your application or to obtain more information on how to apply, please visit our Stepping Up initiative. 

The ‘Stepping Up’ online resource aims to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander job applicants understand how to apply for roles within NSW Health by clarifying the recruitment and onboarding process.    

For more information, please visit: https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/Pages/Home.aspx 


Please note that all NSW Health workers are strongly recommended to stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccinations as recommended by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in the Australian Immunisation Handbook. However, Covid-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment.


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