Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Not provided
Organisation: Monash Health
**Salary**: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 54930
- Would you like to work with a progressive, supportive Social work department and make a real difference with the patients and families you work with?
- Would you like to have the opportunity to work within a Community Mental Health team?
**About Monash Health**
The **Pakenham Community Mental Health Team** provides an effective and comprehensive service to the Monash Adult Mental Health Program. Working within a multi-disciplinary team we provide treatment and support to individuals experiencing complex mental health problems. We strive to deliver high quality recovery-focused client care. Our aim is to promote self-efficacy and independence, and social inclusion with all the individuals we support.
**About the Role**
The Social Worker Grade 1 Mental Health Clinician position is a permanent part time (0.8EFT/4 days per week) entry level position designed to provide a supported introduction to Social work within the Adult Mental Health Service. This clinician will be part of a multidisciplinary team providing high quality assessment, intervention and consultation. The Grade 1 clinician will have the opportunity to develop a broad range of assessment and intervention skills in community settings plus discipline specific assessments. The incumbent will be supported in their learning through education, supervision and through working in partnership with more experienced clinicians.
The Grade 1 clinician will actively facilitate groups, and provide care coordination and liaison with family/support systems. Case-loads will be graded and matched to the growing expertise of the Grade 1 clinician.
**What You Need**:
- A recent qualification to Bachelor or qualifying Masters level in Social Work
- Eligibility for membership of relevant discipline qualified body AASW
**What Monash Offers**:
- Genuine career opportunity to influence and shape the role of a Social Worker within the team
- Support, mentoring and development from a highly experienced and well regarded leadership team
- Satisfaction derived from leading and embedding change to enhance the clinical education offered to psychology staff and post-graduate students.
- Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
- Mentorship & career guidance
- Support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- A supportive learning setting, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies
In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite discounted staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
**How to Apply**
Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.
Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:
- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.
A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.
📌 Social Worker (Grade 1) - Adult Mental Health
🏢 Monash Health
📍 Melbourne