Senior Social Worker Casual
Core
Provide evidence-based senior social work services, assessments, and interventions to patients and carers in a clinical specialty area within a private hospital.
Role type
Senior Social Worker (Clinical)
Builds
High-quality social work services and patient discharge planning
Domain
Healthcare / Social Work
Required skills
Advanced clinical social work practice, supervision and mentoring of junior staff, multidisciplinary teamwork, knowledge of Australian legislation (DVA, TAC, Workcover), patient discharge planning, quality audit and data collection
Preferred skills
Tertiary qualification in Social Work, membership with Australian Association of Social Work, experience in a specialized clinical practice area
Technologies
Clinical information systems
Responsibilities
Provide Social Work assessment, intervention and evaluation at an advanced practice level for complex and general caseloads; Supervise junior social work caregivers and Welfare Officers; Contribute to the evaluation of the Social Work Service and Clinical Specialty; Conduct quality audits that collect quantitative and qualitative data; Liaise with compensable bodies, financial institutions and external care agencies; Maintain current knowledge of legislation and policies relating to discharging patients and compensable patients.