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Senior Mental Health Social Worker
Permanent Full Time with monthly day off | Part Time considered
Grade 3 role | Rotating roster (day shifts only) | Central East location
Attractive salary packaging options to increase take home pay!
Eastern Health
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan – which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.
About the role
The primary role is to provide high quality assessment, intensive case management services and assertive outreach support to people experiencing a mental illness utilising a recovery oriented model of care.
Main responsibilities but not limited to:
Clinical Case Manager undertaking case management and support the recovery for people with a lived experience of mental ill health within the BHMSTS.
Work in partnership with people with a lived experience of mental illness and their families and carers to provide high quality assessment, intensive case management services and assertive outreach support using the Collaborative Recovery Model aiming to promote and facilitate recovery.
Work collaboratively with the Consultant Psychiatrist, AMHS Rehabilitation Team Leader and Service Manager and other Senior Clinicians in MSTS providing leadership, ensuring high quality clinical standards, quality improvement and ongoing development of the Rehabilitation Stream.
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About you
To be successful in this role you will possess:
Experience in supporting adults with the lived experience of mental ill health
A qualification in Social Work that has been approved by the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) for membership as a social worker, maintaining compliance with the AASW Continuing Professional Development Policy in order to meet the Eastern Health Allied Health credentialing standard
Ability to work as part of a diverse team and autonomously
Commitment to supervised practice, ongoing professional development and further developing skills in clinical mental health.
A strong commitment to high quality care
Highly developed interpersonal and leadership experience
A strong commitment to high quality care
Excellent communication and organisational skills
You must hold a valid driver's license
Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.
What we offer
Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here!
Diverse and engaging career opportunities
Friendly & supportive team
Flexible working hours
Salary packaging options
Career progression in our teaching hospitals
Next Steps
Apply online if you feel we are a good match, you have the skills and qualities to make a difference, and are eligible to work in Australia.
We review all applications when we receive them, and we notify unsuccessful candidates.
If you are shortlisted, we will be in touch to arrange an interview, and you must complete a National Police Check (which we will pay for). We will notify unsuccessful candidates.
Good to know:
We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
