Social WorkerAcute Surgical (Melbourne)

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 51243

**SOCIAL WORKER**

**Grade 2 Hospital Social Worker**

**Full Time, Fixed term (Maternity Leave Cover) 12 Months**

**Austin Hospital, Heidelberg**

**Working clinically in the Liver Transplant State Wide Service within the Social Work Surgical Team.**

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the role**: As a Grade 2 Social Worker you will be responsible for providing clinical social work services to referred liver transplant and surgical patients and families. A regular day will see you work clinically with patients, attend family meetings and non clinical meetings, and undertake other duties that support the social work department and its operations.

**Key responsibilities will see you**:

- provide counselling to patients and families
- supervise grade 1 social workers
- supervise social work students
- undertake psychosocial transplant workup assessment
- participate in quality improvement, service improvement and/or research

**You must have**:

- a degree in Social Work and
- ideally have worked in a health related setting
- ability to work and contribute to team culture and work within a multidisciplinary setting

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation ($11,660 in salary packaging benefits).
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, discounted car parking.
- Five weeks annual leave (pro rata for part time), plus purchase leave options.

**Inclusion at Austin Health**

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