CAMHS Forensic Service Senior Social Worker (Adolescent Sexual Assault Prevention Program)

SA Health; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 112,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging benefits

Fitness Passport

Free public transport for staff

Employee Assistance Program

Relocation financial support negotiat.

Job summary

The Senior Social Worker at Women’s and Children’s Health Network in Adelaide provides advanced clinical expertise for children, adolescents and families with harmful sexualised behaviours. The role offers clinical leadership, supervision of staff and drives service improvement within CAMHS.

You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, monitor care plans, and develop individual treatment plans within a recovery framework while promoting equity for culturally and linguistically diverse

Qualifications

• Degree eligible for full membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers.
• Extensive clinical experience with complex cases relevant to CAMHS.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical knowledge and interventions in child and adolescent mental health.
• Implement individual, family and group therapies using a range of models and skills.
• Monitor care plans and conduct clinical reviews to ensure quality outcomes.
• Collaborate with consumers to develop individual care/treatment plans using a recovery framework.
• Promote access and equity of services for culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Skills

Social Work expertise

Clinical leadership

Team collaboration

Interpersonal skills

Education

Approved degree eligible for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers

Job description

Women’s and Children’s Health Network, CAMHS – Forensic Services, Adelaide, Enfield (5085) Salary – AHP3 ($112,139.00 - $120,284.00) + 12% Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice Benefits Full-Time, On-going Role

About WCHN

Join the Women’s and Children’s Health Network (WCHN), South Australia’s leading provider of care for women, babies, children and young people. We’re shaping the future of healthcare through compassion, innovation and excellence — with our communities at the heart of everything we do.

What WCHN Can Offer You

• Access to salary packaging benefits of up to $9,010 each FBT year for living expenses (e.g. mortgage, rent, utilities, groceries), plus an additional $2,650 each FBT year for meal entertainment expenses.
• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia).
• Free public transport to and from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital for SA Health metropolitan hospital staff (excludes network community sites).
• Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program.
• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility.

About the role

The Senior Social Worker provides advanced, evidence-based care and clinical expertise for children, adolescents and families with harmful sexualised behaviours. The role delivers clinical leadership, supervises staff, collaborates across multidisciplinary teams, and drives quality service improvement within CAMHS.

Key duties of the role

• Provide expert clinical knowledge and or interventions in child and adolescent mental health
• Implement individual, family and/or other group therapies and other specific programs using a range of models and skills.
• Provide expert knowledge in monitoring client care plans and clinical review programmes/audits to ensure quality client outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with consumers in the development of individual care/treatment plans using a recovery framework.
• Promotes access and equity of services for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Skills and Experience

• Appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers
• Extensive clinical experience in highly complex cases including assessment, intervention with advanced clinical experience in the delivery of at least one clinical modality relevant to Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• High level of interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and work with other professionals, facilitate group functions and work as a team member.
• Work with a high degree of responsibility with limited supervision and direction

Enquiries can be directed to Lynne Whitcher Administration Coordinator 7117 3845 [emailprotected]

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

Application Closing Date: Monday 5 October at 11:55PM