Child and Family Social Worker
- Empower families with early intervention to enhance parenting and infant wellbeing
- Collaborate with nurses to strengthen parent-child bonds via home visits.
- Enjoy a monthly paid day off plus annual leave for full-time staff!
The CFH Social Worker delivers early intervention-focused social work, enhancing parenting, family function, and infant mental health through home visits.
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Social Worker Level 3
Remuneration: $112,396 – $116,038 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38 (Job Share may be considered for part time hours)
Location: Merrylands Community Health Centre, The Hills Community Health Centre & Auburn Community Health Centre
Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) is responsible for providing primary and secondary health care for people living in the Auburn, Blacktown, and The Hills Shire, Cumberland and Parramatta Local Government Areas (LGAs) and tertiary care to residents of the Greater Western Region. We are committed to our vision of 'better health services for the people of western Sydney and beyond'. and to the delivery of health care or related services in line with our core values of collaboration, openness, respect, and empowerment.
The CFH Social Worker provides specialist social work and counselling interventions with an early intervention focus which aim to enhance parenting capacity, promote healthy family functioning, support families at a time of change and promote infant mental health.
The CFH Social Worker works closely with Child and Family Nursing. Intervention is based on a sustained home visiting model. The focus of intervention is the adult (parent or carer) through the exploration of the parent /child relationship and presenting issue.
The CFH Social Worker position provides high level clinical consultation, advocacy and support to the Child and Family Nursing team. This includes consultation with individual clinicians as well as collaborative input into team case conferencing. The Social worker will contribute high level clinical expertise to case planning, case management as a part of the multidisciplinary health team and during case review/discussion meetings.
The CFH Senior Social Worker is operationally responsible to the Service Coordinator Child & Family Health.
Apply online by submitting your resume and addressing the criteria listed below by providing examples that demonstrate your ability before the closing date.
- Qualification: Bachelor degree in Social Work or equivalent
- Registration: Eligibility for full membership of Australia Association of Social Workers (AASW)
Selection Criteria:
- Demonstrated advanced clinical knowledge, skill and significant clinical experience in the provision of Social Work.
- Extensive experience working in early intervention with families and young children, including: parent child interaction, perinatal infant mental health and early intervention with families and young children.
- Demonstrated advanced therapeutic, counselling and groupwork skills and experience in group work with families with complex clinical presentations in relevant clinical settings such as perinatal mental health, child protection, domestic violence and substance misuse.
- Extensive clinical experience providing clinical consultation and facilitating case review, in the context of family centred casework within a community based multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrated ability in developing and maintaining co-operative professional relationships, with other health teams, government and NGO agencies through the use of well-developed interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
- Demonstrated high level verbal, written and interpersonal skills including the ability to adapt communication style to suit different audiences.
- Demonstrated high level organisational and time management skills in an environment of competing clinical/administrative demands.
- Current driver’s licence valid with Australia.
Requisition ID: REQ536718
Applications Close: 27th January 2025
Need more information?
- Discover more about the application process.
- Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.
- Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.
- For inquiries about the role, contact Natalie Durbidge on Natalie.Durbidge@health.nsw.gov.au
People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health organisations. For more information, please visit https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/
