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ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY:

This rewarding opportunity will see you join the St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba (SVPHT) as a Graduate Social Worker in our Allied Health department.

This role is ideally suitable to new graduate social workers or early career social workers seeking opportunities to continue acute hospital experience. Undergraduate hospital experience would be beneficial.

You will bring your passion to the role where you will work with a great team to provide quality patient care.

This role is a permanent part-time, (up to 45 hours per fortnight), commencing January 2024 and will be pivotal in ensuring quality outcomes for our patients in a friendly and caring atmosphere.

WHY WORK FOR SVPHT:

You will join a high performing team and a workplace with relationships built on mutual trust and respect. We value our staff and offer professional advancement in a respectful, collaborative and learning environment.

• Join the St Vincent’s Health Australia group, and work for a truly values-based organisation, which operates across VIC, NSW and QLD
• Salary packaging available (pay less tax and increase your take home pay!)
• Access to discounted gym membership through Fitness Passport
• A great work life balance with options to purchase additional leave
• Receive a staff discount on hospital admissions to any SVHA Private Hospital
• Professional development support

ABOUT YOU:

As an outstanding Social Worker, you will be responsible for delivering quality health care.

Your skills will include:

• Current member of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) or be eligible for membership as a Social Worker prior to commencement in January 2024
• Ability to apply social work clinical knowledge and skills, experience and clinical reasoning in the acute care setting, including formulation of psychosocial assessments, care planning, brief intervention approaches and the development of a responsive and high quality services in achieving optimal physical, emotional, social health and wellbeing for consumers, families and their care providers.
• Commitment to ongoing professional social work development.
• High level communication and negotiation skills including written (psychosocial assessment), verbal, and computer literacy
• High level ability to build collaborative and effective relationships with multidisciplinary team members

ABOUT ST VINCENTS PRIVATE HOSPITAL TOOWOOMBA

St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba is the largest acute private hospital on the Darling Downs. We are a 189-bed facility with highly experienced and skilled staff that work as a team to deliver the highest standard of healthcare to all our patients. Our services include medical, surgical, maternity, paediatric, emergency, cardiac, intensive care and rehabilitation. We are supported by comprehensive allied health services and advanced medical and diagnostic services. Pathology, radiology and pharmacy are also available on site, and our emergency department is open 24 hours, seven days a week.

APPLY NOW!

If this is the role for you, please hit the APPLY button now! Your application must include:

• Cover Letter
• Resume
• Written 2-page response to selection criteria
• Completed position description

If you have any questions, please reach out to Allied Health Manager, Wendy Callcott on 0436 622 270 or email [email protected]

Criminal record and/or child protection checks will be conducted and will form part of the selection criteria for this role.

SVPHT has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings. You are therefore required to comply with the SVHA Staff Health Screening Immunisation Policy and how it is applied at SVPHT. Therefore, employment with St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba is subject to you providing evidence of vaccinations and/or immunity to all vaccine preventable diseases. Appointment and ongoing employment will be subject to continued compliance with this policy and directive. You will be required to ensure that you remain compliant with mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (e.g. Covid-19 and flu vaccinations).

We are committed to equal employment opportunity, ethical practices, the principles of cultural diversity and promote a smoke free work environment.

St Vincent’s Health Australia is committed to reconciliation and encourages Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply for all advertised positions. For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at [email protected].

AGENCY SUBMISSIONS

St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba does not accept agency submissions unless the agency is specifically contacted by a member of the St Vincent’s Private Hospital hiring team. Please do not forward candidate profiles or resumes to St Vincent’s Private Hospital’s human resources team, hiring managers or other employees – this will not constitute as an introduction to St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba.

CLOSING DATE: 8th October 2023

*Please note this job advertisement will close at Midnight the day before the closing dat