:PermanentFull Time
: Social Worker Level 3
Location: Nepean Hospital
: $112,396.00 - $116,038.00 per annum
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:REQ551135
Applications Close: 24/02/2025
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.
Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.
An excellent opportunity is available for a Social Worker to join the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Nepean Hospital on a Permanent Full Time basis. This role will provide a comprehensive social work service at an advanced level of clinical practice to inpatients, outpatients, their families and carers of NBMLHD.
The successful incumbent will recognise that illness, pregnancy and admission to hospital involve adjustment within the individual and within their relationships with their community. It also recognises that in the process of admission and treatment in hospital the patient experiences a degree of loss of control and independence. It is in this context that social work takes a central role in the hospital goal of fostering the psychological, emotional and social well-being of patients and their families. Social Work provides a service to both the patient and the organisation.
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees
NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.
For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal please click here.
What you will bring to the role
- A Social Work Degree accredited by the Australian Association of Social Workers
- Demonstrated experience working in a hospital setting and extensive knowledge of relevant psychosocial issues. Extensive knowledge of adjustment to medical challenges, managing the transition to parenthood, managing post-partum depression and perinatal loss.
- Proven experience in crisis intervention, grief and loss counselling, conflict resolution, supportive and individual counselling. Strong skills in mediation and conflict management, particularly in relation to family conflict. Proven experience working with child protection and domestic violence referrals, advocacy and discharge planning.
- Proven ability in applying sound professional knowledge and clinical judgement when performing novel, complex or critical tasks. Complex cases/ critical tasks will involve conditions and elements that must be first identified and then analysed to discern interrelationships before practice decisions can be made.
- Demonstrated capacity to provide clinical supervision
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision and to make clinical decisions within a short timeframe
- Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a team; basic computer skills; proven time management skills; excellent oral and written communication skills
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