-Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time
Organisation: The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 68145
**Social Worker (Grade 2)**
**St. Albans Community Care Units CCU - MWAMHS**
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Full time position working 80 hours per fortnight**
- ** Based at St. Albans CCU**:
- ** Excellent opportunity for professional development within a supportive and collaborative environment**
**Life With Us**:
- The Mid West Area Mental Health Service (MWAMHS) provides a comprehensive range of Mental Health services to adults who reside in the local government areas of Brimbank, Melton and parts of Hume (Sunbury & Bulla).
- St Albans CCU provides intensive recovery orientated treatment and interventions to adults between the ages of 18-64 years of age
- As the social worker you will work within a small multidisciplinary and supportive team, committed to the wellbeing of both colleagues and residents
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**our new role**:
- Provide specialist social work consultations and interventions to individuals and their families with complex mental health and psychosocial problems
- Prepare reports detailing assessment findings and outline relevant recommendations for the consumer, carers and other CCU staff.
- Plan, implement and evaluate procedures and provisions of care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team
- Provide leadership, education and support to clinicians within CCU.
**About you**
- Expertise in social work with a commitment to high standards of patient care.
- Knowledge of issues associated with psychiatric illness and awareness of the impact of these on dependent children, family and carers.
- Experience in community liaison and the development of community networks as relevant to a CCU setting.
- Demonstrated capacity to work effectively both as a member of the multidisciplinary team and to lead and supervise others.
- Excellent organisational, verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
**Benefits of working with NorthWestern Mental Helath**
- Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals.
- Enjoy excellent work-life balance working in a supportive and collaborative team
- Salary packaging and a monthly Accrued Day Off (ADO)!
**Interested?**
- For a confidential discussion please connect via the details below.