Employment Type: Fixed-Term Contract (Full-Time) Salary: Grade 2 SW, ranging from $45.67 to $52.49 per hours, depending on experience Location: Werribee Mercy Hospital
Contact: Melissa Van Groen Senior Social Worker E.
[email protected] P. 8754 3089
At Mercy Health, it’s all about taking what we have and making it better. To do that, we need you. Join us at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.
About the opportunity
This position encompasses a clinical caseload within the maternity stream and paediatrics ward. This position will form part of an integral multidisciplinary team and will be required to provide highly responsive and adaptable services to consumers while upholding a high level of professionalism and practising the core values of Mercy Health. This role will encourage best practise philosophy amongst staff and will be expected to demonstrate an advanced skill set.
What you’ll bring
- Tertiary qualification in Social Work with a minimum 2 years' experience and eligibility to membership to the AASW.
- Sound knowledge of current evidence-based practises and commitment to continuing professional development and research.
- Prior hospital experience and/or in women and chidlren's community services, is highly desirable.
- Adaptive, creative with a passion for patient - centred care.
- A current Police Record Check and Working with Children Check.
- Proof of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination status consistent with public health orders.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture. We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We’re proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
Mercy Health Australia is renowned for its unwavering commitment to providing compassionate and patient-centered health services and aged care services. If you're value and display empathy, integrity, and are seeking the opportunity to make a real difference,
Mercy Health is made up of 10,000 people who provide acute and subacute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, maternity and specialist women’s health services, early parenting services, home care services and health worker training and development.
Mercy Health employs people from many cultures and backgrounds who, irrespective of their beliefs, share a common bond to care for those in need.
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