Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time
Organisation: Monash Health
**Salary**: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 57713
**About Monash Health**
**About the Role**
The Dandenong Hospital Social Work Department is looking for a fabulous, enthusiatic and willing to learn Grade 1 Social Worker to join the team working in the acute hospital setting including Women's and Children's, general medicine, surgery and specialty areas. This position is a full-time, permanent position and is part of a flexible, fun loving team who collaborate to provide a holistic approach to service delivery across Dandenong Hospital, also working collaboratively across all sites bed-based and community. Showcase your skills in working with people from a range of diverse backgrounds as well as completing complex psychosocial assessments.
- Development of patient centred care plans and complex discharges.
- Bed-based service delivery includes rosters servicing the Emergency Department, Women's and Children's wards and On-call programs.
- You will be a member of a dynamic Social Work and Allied Health team working in a collaborative model of care across Monash Health.
- Work closely with the internal and external stakeholders to provide care founded on current evidence-based practice for patients accessing care through the inpatient and community based setting.
**About You**
You will have experience in conducting psychosocial assessments, intervention plans and discharge planning, and have worked within a multidisciplinary team. You will have demonstrated experience as a worker who is able to work collaboratively with the broader multidisciplinary team and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor Social Work or Master Social Work (Qualifying)
- Must be eligible for AASW Membership including continuing professional education
- Preferably, but not essential, experience or interest in working in fast paced hospital setting
- Current driver's licence
- Current Working with Children's Check
**Monash Health is a great place to work**
Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:
- salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- free flu vaccinations
- private health insurance at discounted rates
- health imaging services
- + more
- Monash Health is the largest public health service in Victoria, employing more than 20,000 people who work across 40 locations delivering healthcare services through our five hospitals and our extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities._
- We recognise 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 and ICare values._
**_ How to Apply:_