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ABOUT YOUR NEW ROLE:

An exciting opportunity currently exists for an experienced Social Worker to join our team on a full time basis working 38 hours a week. You will bring your passion to the role where you will work with a great team to support patient care.

To fulfil this role, it is essential that you have experience working in an inpatient hospital social work position. You will be required to:

• Use your skills to undertake multi-dimensional, comprehensive psychosocial assessments, apply clinical reasoning, and formulate appropriate complex intervention and discharge plans
• Liaise with patients, their families and/or carers to co-ordinate, facilitate and communicate patient treatment and outcomes
• Actively participate in quality improvement and research activities
• Provide supervision and participate in clinical education programs as required
• Promote and develop positive relationships within the department, wider organisation and with community partners

WHY WORK FOR SVPHS:

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.

• SmartSalary up to $15,900 per year. Salary packaging helps to lower your taxable income and increases your take-home pay, with increased benefits for full-time employee such as reduction to rent or mortgage payments, vehicle leasing and a meal entertainment card up to $2,600 a year
• Access to a number of negotiated discounts including gym memberships through Fitness Passport, private health insurance and HPS pharmacy
• Reward and recognition program
• Great work life balance with options to purchase additional leave
• Staff discount on hospital admissions to any SVHA Private Hospital

ABOUT YOU:

As an outstanding social worker you will be responsible for delivering quality care to our patients.

Your skills will include:

• Bachelor degree or Qualifying masters in Social Work
• Significant social work experience in a hospital or related inpatient health care setting
• The ability to work closely with the multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrate sound understanding of the health care continuum

ABOUT ST VINCENTS PRIVATE HOSPITAL SYDNEY

St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney is located in the heart of the well-known St Vincent’s Health Campus in Darlinghurst and co-located with St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and research centres including the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, The Kinghorn Cancer Centre and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. Our co-location creates cross-campus opportunities for all aspects of our health care business and the staff who work in it. We have recently completed a major redevelopment and refurbishment worth more than $150M which has transformed our facilities including the addition of a 13-level building providing additional patient accommodation, consulting suites, operating theatres, both inpatient and day rehabilitation services with start-of-the-art hydrotherapy pool and a new ambulatory care centre.

We are an exclusively private, 310 bed – all single rooms with ensuite, acute care facility. We now boast 16 operating theatres across two levels, including a new hybrid theatre, and have a 12-bed Intensive Care Unit supporting our complex surgical and medical services.

Our team of experienced nurses and allied health professionals work closely with our highly regarded medical specialists to deliver outstanding patient care across all our services. We are well known for being leaders in precision surgery and innovative treatments for complex medical and surgical conditions and aim to continually push the boundaries to improve patient outcomes.

APPLY NOW!

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].

REQUIREMENTS:

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

SVPHS 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, which, depending on the role you perform in the organisation will require you to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including COVID-19 and flu vaccinations).

HAVE A QUESTION AND WANT TO KNOW MORE:

If you would like to discuss this opportunity please contact Philippa Stevenson Nurse Unit Manage of Continuum of Care for a confidential discussion on 0437367008.

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