Social Worker Manager

Your role St John of God Midland Public Hospital

Join a busy and dynamic healthcare environment where you can make a meaningful difference to the lives of patients, families and carers while leading an experienced Social Work team.

As Manager Social Work, you will provide advanced clinical social work services as part of a multidisciplinary team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care across the hospital.

This is an exceptional leadership opportunity for an experienced clinician who is passionate about driving excellence in social work practice. As the discipline lead, you will provide professional and clinical leadership, mentor and develop team members, and champion evidence-based practice, quality improvement, patient satisfaction and caregiver engagement.

In this rewarding role, you will:

• Deliver comprehensive social work assessments, interventions and support to patients, families and carers navigating complex health journeys.
• Lead and develop a high-performing Social Work team within a busy public hospital setting.
• Provide expert clinical consultation and guidance to medical, nursing and allied health professionals.
• Foster collaborative, multidisciplinary care that achieves the best outcomes for patients.
• Drive professional standards, service innovation and continuous quality improvement.
• Act as a positive role model, demonstrating advanced clinical reasoning, professional excellence and compassionate leadership.

This position is ideal for a highly skilled Social Worker with strong leadership capability, advanced clinical expertise and a commitment to delivering outstanding patient care within a values-driven healthcare organisation.

Lead. Inspire. Make a difference. Join St John of God Midland Public Hospital and help shape the future of Social Work services in our community.

The Position

• Manage the day-to-day operations of Social Work services, ensuring that they are consistent with the Divisions strategic and operational objectives to deliver connected and consumer focused health care.
• Ensures that the workforce is rostered effectively to enable expert Social Work clinical services.
• Uses advanced clinical knowledge and experience to develop, evaluate and improve Social Work services.
• Provides clinical social work services to client groups and circumstances of a complex nature requiring advanced practice skills e.g. Child Protection, Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse.
• Use of Evidence Based Patient treatment outcome measures and use of Patient feedback - satisfaction measures and quality assurance activities
• Ensure prioritisation and delegation of duties of Social Worker caseloads for self and supervised staff
• Promotes professional values and ethics in clinical practice.
• Demonstrates consolidated, current knowledge of research, evidence-based practice in Social Work and related clinical areas.

Position Essential Requirements

You will hold a tertiary qualification in Social Work and be eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). You will bring demonstrated advanced clinical experience and proven leadership within a highly specialised area of social work practice in a healthcare setting, with the ability to provide expert clinical guidance, lead service excellence, and support multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.

To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate the ability to develop, lead and inspire high-performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous professional growth. You will also have proven experience in initiating, designing and implementing research and quality improvement initiatives that drive service excellence, support evidence-based practice and enhance patient and organisational outcomes.

Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

Please include a cover letter addressing the Position Essential Requirements (no more than two pages) with your resume

What we can offer you

• Salary: $153,175 to $161,610 per annum pro-rata basis, plus 12% superannuation
• Permanent full-time position, working 38 hours per week
• Discounts on hospital services & private health insurance
• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
  • Novated leasing 
  • work related expenses
  • self-education and
  • additional superannuation
• Free on-site parking
• Access to fitness and wellbeing benefits through Fitness Passport
• Innovative Professional Development opportunities
• A welcoming and supportive culture
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs

For all enquiries contact Joanne Clark, Director of Allied Health and Outpatient Services, on 0447 928 ***

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

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