Social Worker Grade 4
Core
Senior Social Worker providing clinical practice, systemic understanding, advocacy, and culturally responsive care in a forensic inpatient setting.
Role type
Senior Social Worker (Grade 4)
Builds
Inpatient social work services for acute, women's, or continuing care streams
Domain
Forensic mental health
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Clinical assessment, intervention, leadership, supervision, trauma-informed practice, systemic advocacy, knowledge of legislation
Preferred skills
AASW membership eligibility, experience in mental health or forensic settings
Responsibilities
Coordinate social work practice within a designated inpatient stream; Provide leadership and support to early career and established social workers; Deliver complex psychosocial and risk assessments and provide specialist consultation to multidisciplinary teams; Support consumers, families and carers through structured interventions, advocacy and coordinated care planning.
