• Location: Parkville
• Employment type: Fixed term, full time
• Salary: $59,836.00 to $77,402.00

The Royal Women’s Hospital

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

Social Work Department

Social Work at the Women’s aims to improve the health and well-being of women and babies attending the Women’s. Social Work embraces a view of women's health that is holistic and considers women’s social, physical, emotional and cultural well-being.  Our social workers offer support to women through their maternity, neonatal, gynaecological and oncology experiences and provide advocacy, counselling, support and information for women in response to health and social needs. 

Position Purpose

This role provides a recent social work graduate with a unique opportunity to develop their clinical practice skills within a specialist women’s hospital. It provides access to experience in conducting psycho-social assessments, case management, patient advocacy, bereavement care, and discharge planning, whilst receiving a high level of clinical supervision, mentoring and support.  

The role is focused on the provision of high quality, evidence-based clinical services to patients and their families, and also encompasses non clinical tasks such as contributing to program and guidelines development, research, student and professional education, community liaison and the promotion of the service.

Your contribution: 

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Under supervision and guidance, provide a high quality, evidence-based Social Work service to patients and their families, including undertaking psychosocial assessments, crisis intervention, short term counselling, advocacy, community liaison and referral, casework and discharge planning
• Provide social work interventions, in line with professional standards, organisational guidelines and time-frames within the Social Work Department
• Work collaboratively and flexibly within a multidisciplinary team involved in the care of patients and their families

About you

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

• A tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligibility for Membership of AASW
• Demonstrated understanding of theoretical frameworks which inform social work practice
• Demonstrated competency in undertaking psycho-social assessments and interventions, case planning, advocacy, counselling, and service coordination, gained through a fieldwork placement in healthcare or a related area
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including computer literacy and a capacity to actively reflect on practice
• Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team and to establish effective working relationships with external service providers

Selection criteria

• Essential: Do you have eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)?

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited.

The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters. The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.

Ready to make the move?

For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “apply now” below.

All appointments to the Women’s are subject to a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check.

Contact Susanna Sibillin on (03) 8345 3077 or Sandra Mazzone on (03) 8345 3079 for queries.