Social Worker - Advanced - Cairns

Make the move. Make a difference.

Support recovery at every step.

You are invited to join a dynamic team with the Cairns Adult Community Health Service (ACHS) as a Social Worker. You will report operationally to the ACHS Team Leader and professionally to the Director of Social Work. The Social Worker completes clinical work with a focus on complexity and acts as a clinical consultant to ACHS. Lead a multidisciplinary team by providing operational leadership, supervision, performance development, and day-to-day workforce management to support high-quality service delivery.

About us: 

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

Our values were developed by our staff, patients and community. They guide our work and actions every day. Our staff are part of the community we serve. We believe that we can improve health outcomes by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of their local health services.

About your role:

In this position you will…..

• Provide clinical leadership and demonstrate high level management skills in monitoring and prioritising workload demands to enhance the delivery of Social Work services across Cairns Adult Community Health Service.
• Deliver advanced-level social work services of a highly complex and varied nature, in accordance with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Code of Ethics; AASW Professional Practice Standards; and relevant AASW Scope/s of Practice.
• Contribute to staff development within the ACHS team through clinical practice supervision of staff and students, performance appraisal, professional development, recruitment and selection and mandatory training.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

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Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest. 

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