Social Worker

Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Part time (0.6FTE), fixed term role until July 2026
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

This Social work role involves short term casework, assessment and care planning, secondary consultation, capacity building and health promotion. Within an inter-professional approach, the role focuses around issues such as housing issues; financial hardship/Centrelink issues; DSP and NDIS related issues; advocacy; form filling; My Aged Care.

This role works closely with the cohealth allied health, generalist counselling and medical teams

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Accountable for the Social Work service, ensuring the provision of high quality ethical, evidence-based, flexible, professional goal-directed and client-centred case work services to a range of individuals, groups and families within a systems approach
• Provide casework, referral and advocacy to clients particularly where this would enhance the therapeutic work and/or where other services are not available
• Work flexibly and sensitively with vulnerable groups including people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homeless, people presenting with mental health, pain and trauma
• Provide secondary consultation and participate in projects and evaluation as required

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Tertiary qualifications in Social Work with eligibility to membership of AASW or an equivalent qualification as determined by cohealth
• Proof of qualification to be sighted
• Minimum of two years demonstrated experience in provision of a high standard of client centred, evidence-based short to medium term case management, social support and interventions for the target population
• Working with Children's Check (WWCC)
• Victorian Driver's License required

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process

Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter as well as address the key selection criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Jess Eastwood Jess.Eastwood@cohealth.org.au