Social Worker Level 3 (Westmead)

Deliver high-quality, person-centred care for older people.
- Facilitate integrated, multidisciplinary mental health support.
- Provide expert assessments, interventions, and recovery planning.

**Employment Type**: Permanent Part Time **Position Classification**: Social Worker Level 3 **Remuneration**:$56.68
- $58.52 per hour **Hours Per Week**: 20 **Location**: Westmead Hospital

**_ Part time permanent senior social worker position within a well-supported multi-disciplinary team based in an inpatient mental health unit, Westmead Hospital. _**

**_The preferred applicant should have at least three years’ experience working as a social worker in the community or inpatient setting._**

**Where you'll be working** Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) provides high quality healthcare to diverse communities, guided by values of collaboration, respect, and empowerment.

Join a team dedicated to better health services for Western Sydney and beyond.
- Serves Auburn, Blacktown, The Hills Shire, Cumberland, and Parramatta LGAs.
- Offers primary, secondary, and tertiary health care.
- Supports over a million residents in the Greater Western Region.
- Committed to innovation and patient centered care.
- Solid focus on collaboration and respect in service delivery.
- Empowering teams to make a lasting impact.

**What you'll be doing** As a Social Worker you will support WSLHD Older Peoples Mental Health Service by providing high-quality social work assessments and interventions for older patients in the acute inpatient unit. In this role you will also be responsible for:

- Providing evidence-based social work assessments and interventions.
- Conducting comprehensive mental health assessments, care planning, and evaluation.
- Assisting consumers and carers with complex and severe mental illness and aging issues.
- Delivering high-level services throughout the consumer’s recovery journey.
- Leading discharge planning and community reintegration.

**How to Apply**

**Essential Requirements**:

- Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in Social Work
- Registration: Eligibility for Australian Association of Social Work (AASW) membership.

**Selection Criteria**:

- Substantial experience and skills in Social Work assessment, planning and evaluating interventions for older consumers with complex mental health conditions and comorbidities.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrated working knowledge of NSW Mental Health Act 2007 and NSW Trustees and Guardian Act 2009.
- Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge, skill, and significant clinical experience in in professional and clinical supervision, and support of staff.
- Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead, complete and evaluate quality improvement initiatives and/or research focused on patient/consumer outcomes.
- Class C Driver’s License.

**Requisition ID**:REQ557959 **Applications Close**: 13th March 2025

**Need more**information**?**
- Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.
- Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.
- People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard._

**_ Please note: _**_To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency._

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