Social Worker, Grade 2 - Child and Family Program

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Part-time | 0.6 EFT (22.8 hours per week / 3 days) | Ongoing

About the Role

Join our Child & Family Program as a Grade 2 Social Worker and make a meaningful difference for children and families experiencing complex health and psychosocial challenges. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll provide specialist social work assessment, intervention, counselling and advocacy to children and families across the City of Greater Dandenong, City of Casey and Shire of Cardinia.

This is a varied community-based role where you’ll work alongside families to understand their individual circumstances, build on their strengths and connect them with the services and supports they need. Your work will include:

• Providing comprehensive psychosocial assessment and intervention
• Supporting families experiencing crisis, family violence and other complex circumstances
• Providing parenting support and advocacy
• Supporting families to navigate the NDIS and other complex service systems
• Connecting families with community services, housing, material aid and other practical supports
• Assessing and responding to risk in partnership with families and relevant services
• Working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to provide coordinated, child and family-centred care

You’ll work across community sites and provide outreach as required, giving you the opportunity to support children and families within the communities in which they live.

About the Program

The Child & Family Program sits within Monash Children’s and provides multidisciplinary care focused on improving the health, wellbeing and developmental outcomes of children and families. Our team includes Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, Dietitians, Counsellors, Family Support Workers, Community Development Workers and other allied health professionals.

Together, we support children and families through collaborative, evidence-based practice informed by the Social Model of Health, recognising the broader social, cultural and environmental factors that influence a child’s health and wellbeing. The program also includes Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies (HMHB) and works closely with health, education and community services to provide integrated support for families.

About You

You are an experienced and compassionate Social Worker who is passionate about supporting children, families and communities. You’re confident working with psychosocial complexity and understand that improving a child’s health and wellbeing often means looking beyond their immediate clinical needs to the broader circumstances affecting their family.

You will bring:

• A Bachelor or qualifying Master of Social Work, or equivalent qualification recognised by the AASW
• Eligibility for ordinary membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
• Experience in psychosocial assessment, intervention, counselling and care coordination
• Experience working with vulnerable or at-risk children and families, including refugee and culturally diverse…