• Full time ongoing position
• Based at Thomas Embling Hospital (Fairfield) - free onsite parking
• Great salary packaging conditions and leave entitlements
• Social Worker Grade 3 In-patient opportunity

About the role:

The Senior Social Worker is responsible for providing high-level social work services in a custodial care environment. The role will focus on provision of recovery, advocacy and psychosocial support as well as provide leadership within the Social Work Service and broader organisation.

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and hold a Senior Social Worker role.
• Provide expert advice, direct practice, secondary consultation and facilitate reflective practices with teams providing custodial psychiatric care.
• Develop and implement social work provision focussing on the needs of individual, families/carers and other groups
• Develop linkages with community-based services, such NDIS, legal representatives, courts and other external stakeholders.

About you:

The successful candidate will have experience in providing high-level consultation and advice to members of the multi-disciplinary team on social work practice and related interventions as well as undertaking social work assessments and interventions and supervision of social workers.

Skills, experience and qualifications:

• Approved degree in Social Work, or other qualifications approved for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers with 5 years’ experience in a relevant field.
• Sound understanding of/experience in forensic mental health settings and practices.
• Demonstrated ability to engage in social work service development.
• Demonstrated high-level knowledge and skills related to providing social work practice and psychiatric care in custodial settings.
• Ability to develop collaborative recovery goals and undertake clinical risk and criminogenic assessments as well as supervise social work practice in this setting.

Mandatory qualifications & registrations:

• Approved degree in Social Work and eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
• This position is subject to a Police Check.

Benefits:

We value our staff and provide a range of employee benefits including:

• Great salary packaging conditions.
• Excellent leave entitlements.
• Post-graduate scholarship programs.
• Ongoing training and full orientation.
• Comprehensive Health and Wellbeing Programs including Employee Assistance Programs.

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Forensicare promotes the following values: responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability, respect, and leadership; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.