• Full time, 38 hours p/w, fixed term until June 2024 role  
• Parkville location, with multiple public transport options available 
• $100,090.00 – $114,358.40 + salary packaging + super + 5 weeks annual leave  

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest tertiary hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of women and newborns, offering specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.  Our goal is to be the best place to work, learn and contribute, and to provide exceptional experiences for our patients and consumers.

About The Social Model of Health

The Social Model of Health Division was established in July 2021 and has responsibility for ensuring the hospital’s clinical and social support services are coordinated, aligned and leveraged to provide wrap around care for the women who need it most. In particular, the division has a focus on ensuring a woman’s social, economic, cultural, environmental, geographic, and other factors are taken into account in her care plan with the overall aim of reducing health inequalities and addressing systemic inadequacies that affect health access and outcomes.  

Informed by a strong evidence base, the Social Model of Health Division works to ensure the Women’s can offer a continuum of care approach depending on the complexity of each woman’s clinical presentation and social circumstance. The division plays a key role in guiding and supporting a number of specialist services as well as providing state-wide leadership and advocacy on a number of issues in this space.   

About the role

The objective of the Senior Clinician Family Violence will be to work closely with the Project Officer, Family Violence and the Senior Program Manager Family Violence to support the successful implementation and embedding of the Strengthening Hospital Responses to Family Violence (SHRFV) model internally. The Senior Clinician will also support the Project Officer Family Violence with successful implementation of iCOPE and Clinical Champions as well as delivering training and development and maintaining resources to support the ongoing delivery of clinical family violence practice as related to SHRFV. 

A regular day will see you:

• Promote and support the embedding and alignment of the Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management (MARAM) framework.
• Promote and support the embedding of the Information Sharing Schemes and identify gaps or problems to inform necessary practice changes.
• Contribute to capacity building with a particular focus on social work and nursing, medical and midwifery mapped to MARAM Sensitive and Intermediate levels across the Women’s.
• Strengthen family violence identification and response through the delivery Family Violence clinical education and training across The Women’s.
• Provide secondary consultation across The Women’s, as directed by the Senior Program Manager Family Violence.

About you

You’ll bring with you:

• The minimum qualification required for is a university obtained Bachelor degree in Social Work
• Eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) or other Professional Body as relevant to the qualification held
• Knowledge and understanding of the relevant legislation and practice frameworks relating to family violence practice, including but not limited to the Family Violence Information Sharing Scheme (FVISS), Child Information Sharing Scheme (CISS) and the Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework (MARAM).
• Experience working clinically in a hospital system
• Demonstrated experience working with women and children victim/survivors of family violence presenting with complex needs and behaviours (e.g. trauma, substance abuse, mental health, parenting issues, disability) and/or from CALD or indigenous backgrounds and/or LGBTIQA+ communities.

Our benefits

At the Women’s you will enjoy a culture that is collaborative, supportive and passionate about learning.  We have a strong sense of purpose, and engage in meaningful work every day.  We offer our people a range of rewarding benefits, including:

• $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted financial, lifestyle and health options, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
• Public transport options at our doorstep and end of journey facilities for cyclists
• Onsite childcare centre and breastfeeding rooms
• Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities
• Five weeks annual leave, monthly ADO’s and purchased leave options

Inclusion and belonging

The Women’s celebrates, values and supports a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects our vibrant community.  We encourage applications from anyone identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.  We also welcome anyone who identifies as LGBTQIA+, physically, linguistically, culturally and/or gender diverse, and people of any age to apply for our roles. We are committed to gender equity principles, and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women and family violence matters.  We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited.

Join us!

If you feel this role is right for you we warmly invite you to apply, and encourage your early application.  All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check, a Working with Children Check and three COVID-19 vaccinations, and may include a range of additional vaccinations including influenza, as required by the Department of Health. 

COVID 19 Vaccination

Provide evidence that they have received a full COVID-19 Vaccination, or provide evidence from a medical practitioner certifying that an exception applies related to a contraindication to the administration of the COVID-19 vaccination. This includes employees in all roles at the Women’s Hospital. This requirement is in line with the directions pursuant to section 200 (1)(d) of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 (Vic).

Influenza Vaccination

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category C of the departments risk ratings, applicants are strongly encouraged (although not required) to be vaccinated against influenza.

If you need assistance or require any reasonable adjustments to fully participate in the application or interview process, you are welcome to reach out to the contact person listed.  We acknowledge that not all applicants will meet the full list of selection criteria outlined, and wherever possible we will consider applications where relevant experience can apply.