What you'll be doing
The Social Work Team Leader forms a key part of the social work leadership group at Sutherland Hospital in Caringbah, helping to achieve this mission using our CORE values of collaboration, openness, respect and empowerment.
This is a temporary full time secondment position until March 2025.
The Social Work Team Leader role includes a clinical allocation, and provides line management and clinical supervision for social workers working across clinical areas including; Aged Care, Rehabilitation, Oncology, Surgical, and Orthopaedics. The successful applicant will have a recognised clinical speciality with a high level of clinical expertise and knowledge in these clinical areas.
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
The Social Work Team Leader is able to demonstrate advanced reasoning skills and operates autonomously with minimum direct clinical supervision. They are involved with planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting on clinical services in a particular specialty and are involved in the implementation of SESLHD protocols, initiatives, policies and procedures.
The Social Work Team Leader has a consultative role within their clinical specialty. They may also conduct clinical research and participate in the provision of clinical in-service education programs to staff and students. The Social Work Team Leader will assist in operational/supervisory responsibilities under the direction of the Social Work Department Head, and may be required to manage specific tasks or projects.
All workers and new recruits are required to receive 2 doses of a Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccine to commence employment/ engagement or continue to work within a NSW Health service.
A worker and new recruit will be considered compliant if they have a medical contraindication to all available Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccines and provide medical contraindication evidence in line with the policy requirements.
In addition, all Category A workers and new recruits are required to receive one dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine annually to be considered compliant.
Category A workers and new recruits who are non-compliant with seasonal influenza vaccination or have a medical contraindication to influenza or COVID-19 vaccinations must comply with all other infection control risk reduction strategies as directed while working in a Category A position.