Location: Ballarat Central, VIC, AU, 3350
**$52.70 to $60.21 per hour + salary packaging | Senior Social Worker - Grampians Health (Ballarat)**
Permanent Full Time | 80 hours per fortnight including a monthly ADO
**About the Role**
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled Senior Social Worker to lead a small, dynamic team across the acute areas at Grampians Health, Ballarat Hospital. You will play a key role in providing advanced clinical services, driving best practice, and contributing to excellent patient outcomes. The role offers the chance to make a real impact through leadership, supervision, and support for junior staff and students. You’ll work within a supportive environment that values evidence based care, collaboration, and ongoing career development.
**Key Responsibilities**
Provide clinical leadership across acute service
- s Deliver expert social work services for complex case
- s Supervise and mentor staff and student
- s Collaborate with teams to support patient car
- e Develop and evaluate care models and program
- s Contribute to service improvement and innovatio
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**Skills & Experience**
Accredited Social Work qualification and AASW membershi
- p Strong clinical and leadership capabilit
- y Excellent verbal and written communication skill
- s Proven ability to work within multidisciplinary team
- s Sound knowledge of current healthcare practices and system
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**Interested?**
, or if you wish to discuss the role prior to applying, contact **Wendee Lovel** on **0439 015 736** for a confidential discussion.
**About Grampians Health**
Grampians Health provides healthcare to a large region at our campuses based in Ballarat, Dimboola, Edenhope, Horsham and Stawell.
Our mission is to deliver sustainable healthcare tailored to evolving community and workforce needs. We strive to enhance services and careers, providing quality healthcare to rural and regional communities. Joining Grampians Health means being part of a diverse team, with a variety of career opportunities in acute, maternity, mental health, allied health, aged care and support services.
**Culture & Benefits**
At Grampians Health, we recognise our staff are our greatest asset. We are committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, patients, residents, visitors, volunteers and contractors at all sites.
Flexible work arrangements and purchase leave opportunitie
- s Salary packaging for living expenses such as rent/mortgage plus meals, entertainment & holiday
- s Access to Fitness Passport membershi
- p Staff rewards and recognition program
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**Ballarat Region**
**Diversity and Inclusion**
All employees must be willing and able to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when required, which at a minimum is a surgical mask. Additional PPE requirements are role-dependent.
Grampians Health is a child safe organisation, committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. Grampians Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
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