Senior Social Worker - Women, Children and Family Division
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Social Worker to join our team at Ipswich Hospital.
About the Role
The Senior Social Worker will apply high-level clinical judgement and skill to work autonomously with complex cases, providing specialist interventions and related clinical services within maternity, special care, antenatal, and paediatric clinical services.
Main Responsibilities
* Provide high-level, specialist interventions and related clinical services in line with the Social Work professional code of ethics and practice standards.
* Clinical practice, advice, and consultation to multidisciplinary teams to enhance service delivery and support the continuum of care from hospital to community.
* High level knowledge and skills to undertake clinical service delivery, including assessment to identify clinical risk, advocacy skills, and leadership to the clinical team on the utilisation of relevant legislation and policy.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will possess:
* Demonstrated high-level expertise and skills in delivering assessment, interventions, and independent decision-making to provide evidence-based assessments and interventions for families with complex needs.
* High level of professional leadership applied to a complex caseload of adult patients, children, and their families within an interprofessional team.
* Effective written and oral communication skills in providing multidisciplinary care, including psychosocial assessments, management of clinical documentation, consultation advice, reports, and high-level advocacy.
* Clinical leadership in the supervision and development of staff, supporting effective and evidence-based practice to implement improvement in processes.
* Active and ongoing participation in professional development.
Mandatory Requirements
Vaccinated against, and remain vaccinated against, certain vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) as outlined in the Health Employment Directive NO. 01/16.