Out of Home Care & Child Safety Coordinator
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- Social Worker
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- REQ482575 Requisition #
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- Apr 19, 2024 Post Date
Position Classification: Social Worker Lvl 3
Remuneration: $54.75 - $56.54 per hour + Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ482575
Location: Broken Hill NSW
Please note to apply for this position you must be an employee of NSW Health
- Great opportunity to join a supportive team and make a real difference.
- Fantastic lifestyle, great food/cafes, arts, music, sport and festivals.
- Only 3 hours from Mildura and 5 hours flight from Adelaide or a short flight from anywhere in Australia.
Broken Hill is truly a town like no other with a supportive community that will welcome you with open arms. We can't wait to see you! Take a quick look on "Living and Working" in the Far West.
What you'll be doing
The role will provide safe, compassionate, quality, person centred care and work in collaboration with children, young people/families/carers in a multidisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary approach to assist then to navigate the health system, achieve identified goals and outcomes for children and young people living in OOHC and/or who have complex medical and psychosocial needs and/or a child under 10 years with problematic harmful sexual behaviours.
What is on Offer
- 5 Weeks Annual Leave
- Rural incentive up to $10k.
- Salary Packaging (pay less tax) and enjoy up to $9k for living expenses and $2.6k for meals and entertainment.
- Novated Leasing.
- Isolation and Climate allowance.
- Fitness Passport.
- A comfortable and affordable country lifestyle that supports balance and wellbeing.
About the Far West LHD
The Far West Local Health District is one of 15 LHDs under NSW Health, providing high quality public health services to the communities in far west NSW.
Key to our success of course, is our people. Our workforce is inclusive and diverse. We employ well over 800 clinicians and support staff across our 9 health facilities in Broken Hill, Balranald, Dareton, Ivanhoe, Menindee, Tibooburra, Wentworth, White Cliffs and Wilcannia. In the Far West LHD, we are working together to make a real difference to the health outcomes for our communities. We encourage you to consider joining our friendly team for a meaningful and rewarding career in rural and remote healthcare.
About Broken Hill
A true “Oasis in the Outback”, Broken Hill is a thriving regional town in far west NSW full of diversity, history and character. Being Australia’s first city to be Nationally Heritage Listed, Broken Hill is a culturally rich town with a vibrant art scene with over 20 galleries! The unique attractions, festivals and beautiful natural landscapes see tourists flock from all over, but the ones who stay quickly fall in love with the place and its liveability.
With a population just shy of 20,000, Broken Hill is small enough to allow for a relaxed country lifestyle, while big enough to provide all the desired facilities of a regional hub including major supermarkets and retail stores, excellent schools (7 primary & 2 high), multiple gyms & aquatic centre, well-known fast food franchises and a plethora of trendy restaurants, pubs and cafés.
How to apply
To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria in the application as thoroughly as possibly:
- Tertiary nursing qualification and current registration with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
- Understanding of intergeneration trauma, child abuse and neglect and the legal and policy framework governing child protection in NSW.
- Demonstrated experience in collaborating, negotiating and maintaining ongoing relationships with Department of Communities and Justice, NSW Police, Department of Education and other relevant stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience in planning, developing, monitoring, consulting, reviewing complex health management plans.
- Demonstrated experience in prevention activities, community engagement and awareness raising initiatives and local workforce capability building and training (health and inter-agency).
- Demonstrated ability to meet tight deadlines within defined resources and capacity to anticipate, respond and resolve complex and critical issues.
- Demonstrated supervisor interpersonal, verbal and written communication, consultation and negotiation skills necessary to build and maintain collaborative relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders and to work effectively within the multidisciplinary team environment.
- Evidence of current unrestricted NSW drivers licence and a willingness to provide outreach throughout the Far West LHD.
The Welcome Experience
The Welcome Experience in Broken Hill connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.
Learn more at www. nsw.gov.au/welcomeexperience
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description
2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Rebecca Deer on Rebecca.Deer@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: 17th of May 2024
At Far West Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences, but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.
