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About the Role
Max-term role working with Aged Care inpatients at St Vincent’s Hospital. Delivering advanced social work interventions as a key member of a dynamic multidisciplinary team. Participate in the 24-hour on-call social work crisis service, delivering timely support and interventions outside standard hours. Provide comprehensive psychosocial social work services within Aged Care, delivering timely support to patients, clients, families and carers while actively contributing to interprofessional clinical practice. Lead care coordination and discharge planning by collaborating with hospital teams, community services, and external agencies to ensure safe patient transitions, including arranging accommodation and ongoing support. Advocate for patients and carers both inside and outside the hospital as appropriate, including where required referral for My Aged Care and application to the NDIS, NCAT: Guardianship division. Provide clinical supervision, education, and consultation to staff and students, and contribute to quality improvement, research, and professional development aligned with St Vincent’s Hospital’s mission and policies.
Responsibilities
- Deliver advanced social work interventions as a key member of a dynamic multidisciplinary team.
- Participate in the 24-hour on-call social work crisis service, delivering timely support and interventions outside standard hours.
- Provide comprehensive psychosocial social work services within Aged Care, delivering timely support to patients, clients, families and carers.
- Actively contribute to interprofessional clinical practice.
- Lead care coordination and discharge planning by collaborating with hospital teams, community services, and external agencies to ensure safe patient transitions.
- Arrange accommodation and ongoing support for patients.
- Advocate for patients and carers both inside and outside the hospital.
- Refer for My Aged Care and apply to the NDIS, NCAT: Guardianship division.
- Provide clinical supervision, education, and consultation to staff and students.
- Contribute to quality improvement, research, and professional development aligned with St Vincent’s Hospital’s mission and policies.
Requirements
- Qualified Social Worker with a degree in Social Work, eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
- Extensive clinical experience in health settings, including advanced skills in aged care social work across hospital and/or community environments.
- Strong understanding and experience in managing complex social issues faced by patients, families and carers within aged care.
- Demonstrated advanced clinical skills and knowledge in psychosocial assessment, counselling, case management, advocacy and complex discharge planning.
- Recognised clinical leader providing expert social work advice in multidisciplinary teams.
- Skilled in managing high-demand critical care environments.
- Skilled in promoting consumer participation in decision-making.
- Skilled in leading service improvements to enhance patient care and outcomes.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, and organisational skills.
- Commitment to collaborative team practice, professional development, and mentoring junior staff and students through supervision and education.
- Employment is conditional upon the completion of all role-required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.
Skills
- Aged care social work
- Psychosocial assessment
- Counselling
- Case management
- Advocacy
- Complex discharge planning
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Negotiation skills
- Organisational skills
- Clinical supervision
- Education
- Consultation
Location
- St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst
Work Type
- Max Term
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Extensive clinical experience in health settings
- Advanced skills in aged care social work
Education Level
- Degree in Social Work
Salary/Compensations
- $116,892 - $120,680 + super + salary packaging
- New FY26/27 wage increase to be announced soon. All approved increases will be backdated to 1 July once implemented.
Benefits
- Discounted access to many gyms for you and your family with Fitness Passport
- Access to discounted private health insurance with Medibank
- Access to a government salary sacrifice program.
- Make a proportion of your salary tax-free
- Committed to financial support for educational development, scholarship programs, paid study leave
- Moving from NSW Health? Your eligible accrued leave entitlements will be transferred over.
About the Company
- We are St Vincent’s Health Australia, Australia’s largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services.
- Founded by The Sisters of Charity in 1857, our +30,000 healthcare superheroes operate public and private hospitals, residential aged care, community and virtual care, and outreach programs.
- St Vincent’s Health Australia has been serving Australians with compassionate health and aged care since our first hospital was established in Sydney in 1857.
- Founded by the Sisters of Charity more than 180 years ago, St Vincent’s is a clinical, research and education leader delivering private hospital, public hospital and aged care services across NSW, VIC and QLD.
- Our founder, Mary Aikenhead’s vision, commitment and inspiration lives on in us and the work we do.
- From modest beginnings, St Vincent’s Health Australia is today the nation’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider, offering services in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, including public and private hospitals and aged care facilities.
- The St Vincent’s family comprises 22,000 outstanding nurses, researchers, cooks, doctors, executives, administrators, cleaners, volunteers and more.
Equal Opportunity
- We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.
- At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees.
- As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.