**Job no**: 891024
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Southern
**Categories**: Allied and Scientific Health, Public Health
- Southern Adelaide Local Health Network - Flinders Medical Centre - Rehabilitation, Aged Care and Palliative Care
- Salary $68,478 - $83,594 (Pro Rata) AHP1 | Full Time - Until June 2025
**Are you a Social Worker looking to make a difference in Southern Adelaide's local community?**
**About the role**:
Reporting to the Virtual Rehabilitation Ward Manager, in your role as a Social Worker you will participate as a member of the Virtual Rehabilitation Ward team, which provides care to older people with complex medical, functional and/or psychosocial needs in their own home in lieu of an extended or avoidable hospital admission.
Duties for the role will include:
- Contribute to safe and timely discharge and improved independence and occupational outcomes for clients,
- Documenting assessment findings and interventions in a timely fashion,
- Liaising with the Senior Social Work and the Director, Social Work RAP about the provision of services and resources in the occupant's work area,
- Contributing to the development of an integrated team approach and culture which is highly responsive to the needs of our consumers,
- Undertaking training as required to attain and maintain required competency of skills and knowledge applicable to the role.
**About you**:
- A degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers,
- Ability to undertake assessment and intervention with clients with a range of illness and disabilities relevant to older people and rehabilitation,
- Organisational skills including the ability to prioritise work, meet deadlines, delegate appropriately and demonstrate initiative,
- Experience in the provision of clinical Social Work services to clients with a range of illness and disabilities relevant to older people and rehabilitation,
- Experience in the provision of clinical Social Work services to clients with a range of illness and disabilities relevant to older people and rehabilitation.
Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.
**Application Closing Date**:**11.55 pm Sunday 19th January 2025
**Attachments**:
- P41516 - AHP1 Social Worker - Virtual Rehabilitation Ward - Role Description
- Australian applicant guidelines
- International applicant guidelines
**Applicant Information**:
- We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job ref**:891024**
**Advertised**: 03 Jan 2025 Cen. Australia Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 19 Jan 2025 11:55 PM Cen. Australia Daylight Time