Family Worker

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Detail information about job Family Worker. Terms and conditions vacancy

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Health Clinician Level 3
Remuneration: Dependent on qualifications
Hours Per Week: 20
Requisition ID: REQ23121

Family Worker - Mental Health

This position provides a consultative style service, working with clinicians to provide family sensitive interventions within the mental health service, as well as offering information and support to families and carers.

Where you'll be working
Located with Ryde Community Mental Health and Royal North Shore Hospital.
 

Northern Sydney’s vision is to be "leaders in healthcare, partners in community wellbeing". Our purpose is “embracing discovery and learning, building partnerships and engaging our community to deliver excellent health and wellbeing.”

 

We build teams and health services that embrace our values; Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment (CORE). Our CORE values and the behaviours that underpin them, shape the way we work together, with our patients and consumers, to deliver excellent health and wellbeing. If you’d like to be part of our journey we want to hear from you.

NSLHD is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, Workforce Health and Safety, Ethical Practices and the principles of Cultural Diversity. Aboriginal people are encouraged to apply and, where found suitable, will be given higher priority.

What you'll be doing

The primary focus of this position is to facilitate and support clinical staff to work with families and carers and to provide specialist family interventions for complex presentations. The position offers a consultative style service, working with clinicians, consumers and families to deliver family sensitive practice. This position has a significant role in providing education and training, with supervision and support to clinicians regarding family and carer work.

Salary:

Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2: $48.36 - $49.95

Allied Health Professionals: $48.08 - $49.69

Psychologist: $32.59 - $48.44

Employees must abide by the NSW Health Code of Conduct. Criminal record checks will be undertaken on successful applicants and applicants for positions designated as Category A will be required to obtain required vaccinations prior to commencing employment. 

 

Candidates will need to meet the following criteria:

• Consistently demonstrates behaviours that reinforce the CORE Values of our organisation; Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment. Demonstrates these behaviours with all stakeholders; colleagues, direct reports, as well as our patients and consumers, and those that care for them
• Tertiary qualification in a relevant clinical field - Social Work, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, or Psychology with extensive relevant clinical experience.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver education and training programs to clinicians and /or families and carers in a workshop style format.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills, including negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution skills; ability to network, develop and manage partnerships and relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in research and evaluation, including identifying opportunities for improvement in clinical practice and developing and leading ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff.
• Demonstrated well developed written and verbal communication skills, including competency using the Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Outlook email and some Publisher style programs.
• Current unrestricted NSW Drivers Licence.

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For role related queries or questions contact Angela Hunter on 02 9887 5657 or [email protected]

Applications Close: 27 July 2018