St Pauls - Social Worker Grade 3

$101,597 - $116,074 (SW3) plus super and benefits
Extensive investment in facilities and people supporting our significant service expansionA culture where people careA career in the forensic mental health sector is diverse, challenging and rewarding.
A career at Forensicare will be like no other.
If you're passionate about supporting people in their mental health recovery, Forensicare is where you need to be.
You will be a part of a caring and supportive team, making a real difference to people living with the dual stigma of mental illness and offending.
We approach our work with curiosity and a commitment to understanding the unique needs of our consumers and carers.
Working across community, hospital and prison settings, you can learn, apply your specialist skills and advance in your profession.
Together, we can contribute to a more connected, compassionate mental health and criminal justice system.
Job location Forensicare provides specialist forensic mental health services across 12 of Victoria's 14 prisons with expansion underway to include Western Plains in the Barwon region.
Located at Port Phillip Prison in Truganina, VIC.
St Paul's Unit is a 30-bed psychosocial rehabilitation service that provides specialist, voluntary mental health care, treatment and therapeutic programs to prisoners with a mental health diagnosis.
Participants selected for the program require psychosocial rehabilitation to minimise risk of relapse and enhance their social functioning in preparation for returning to general prison environment or release to community.
Port Phillip Prison (PPP) is closing at the end of 2025 and its decommissioning will commence in July 2025.
This position will initially be located at PPP and you will be redeployed to a comparable role at another Forensicare site subject to operational requirements.
About the Role: The Senior Social Worker provides professional leadership within the social work service, their local team and directorate, and the broader organisation, contributing to service development and research projects, committees and working parties, and the development and review of policy and procedures.
The role provides direct social work practice, consultation and advice, and clinical supervision and support to early career and more established social workers.
Duties: Ensure the maintenance of accepted professional standards through formal professional supervision, mentoring, and performance appraisal of relevant social work staff and students.Contribute to research projects and articles for presentation and publication both in and outside the service, which enhance the role and function of services to forensic mental health consumers and the role and function of the service as a whole.Initiate and implement discipline-specific quality improvement activities and contribute to generic quality improvement activities, protocol development and achieving ethical standards within the service.Deliver high quality social work services to consumers consistent with the Forensicare Model of Care.Provide consultation and advice to members of the multi-disciplinary team on social work and related issues.About You: A sound knowledge of legislation relevant to the target population.Demonstrated ability to provide high-level leadership, management and supervision of staff and students.Ability to deliver specialist social work services including clinical, individual and group based, primary, secondary and tertiary consultation within a complex and dynamic environment.Proven skills and experience in developing and implementing complex case plans involving direct and indirect social work practice.Ability to coordinate and evaluate social work practice and service development activities within a forensic mental health setting.What you need: Approved degree in Social Work and evidence of eligibility of membership for AASW (Australian Association of Social Workers).Extensive experience in a relevant social work setting.*Please Note - Applications will be reviewed and interviewed as they are received. A culture where people matter.
Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of all our team members.Well defined career pathways existing across our Directorates with multi-disciplined Teams.Salary Packaging Options available – Mortgage, Rent, Car, ExpensesA leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological, peer support and critical incidence response programs.To access a detailed position description, please click Social Worker - Grade 3.
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Clinical excellence and translational research enable our consumers to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives in a safer community.
Our mission
We will provide high quality, specialist clinical services that:
focus on the recovery of our consumers,
build our translational research capacity; and
work collaboratively with our stakeholders to achieve better and safer outcomes for our consumers and the community.
Our values
Forensicare is guided by the values established by the Victorian Public Sector Commission for the public sector, and promotes behaviours consistent with these values at all times and in all circumstances:
Our story
Forensicare (Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health) is the state-wide specialist provider of forensic mental health services in Victoria.
Forensicare is the only agency in Victoria that provides clinical forensic mental health services which span all components of the mental health and criminal justice sectors – giving Forensicare a unique perspective on mental health and public safety issues.
It is able to provide specialist forensic mental health services tailored to meet the specific needs of both sectors.
We provide forensic mental health services for people:
with a serious mental illness in the criminal justice system
at risk of offending who pose a risk to themselves or others
referred from the general mental health system for specialist advice, support and/or treatment.
Forensicare's primary focus is the provision of clinical services within a recovery framework.
These services include the effective assessment, treatment and management of forensic patients, prisoners and clients.
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