About Us
Forensicare provides specialist forensic mental health services across 12 of Victoria's 14 prisons with expansion underway to include Western Plains in the Barwon region.
Career Overview
A career in the forensic mental health sector is diverse, challenging and rewarding. As a Senior Social Worker at Forensicare, you will be part of a caring and supportive team making a real difference to people living with the dual stigma of mental illness and offending.
Job Description
The Senior Social Worker provides professional leadership within the social work service, their local team and directorate, and the broader organisation, contributing to service development and research projects, committees and working parties, and the development and review of policy and procedures.
Key Responsibilities
* Ensure the maintenance of accepted professional standards through formal professional supervision, mentoring, and performance appraisal of relevant social work staff and students.
* Contribute to research projects and articles for presentation and publication both in and outside the service, which enhance the role and function of services to forensic mental health consumers and the role and function of the service as a whole.
* Initiate and implement discipline-specific quality improvement activities and contribute to generic quality improvement activities, protocol development and achieving ethical standards within the service.
* Demonstrate expertise in clinical, individual and group based, primary, secondary and tertiary consultation within a complex and dynamic environment.
Requirements
* Approved degree in Social Work and evidence of eligibility of membership for AASW (Australian Association of Social Workers).
* Extensive experience in a relevant social work setting.
About Our Benefits
We offer a range of benefits that reflect our commitment to supporting our employees in their careers and well-being:
* Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of all our team members.
* Well defined career pathways existing across our Directorates with multi-disciplined Teams.
* Salary Packaging Options available – Mortgage, Rent, Car, Expenses.
* A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
* Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
* Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
* A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological, peer support and critical incidence response programs.