Provide advanced clinical social work services within an interprofessional mental health care environment, focusing on assessment, treatment, crisis intervention, rehabilitation, discharge planning, and coordination of care for individuals with complex mental health, forensic, addiction, and concurrent disorders.
Compensation
Salary Range: $40.25 – $54.24 per hour
Responsibilities
Conduct comprehensive psychosocial, risk, and psychiatric assessments to inform treatment planning and discharge decisions.
Provide individual counselling, brief psychotherapy, crisis intervention, and psychoeducation using evidence-based approaches.
Facilitate therapeutic, psychoeducational, and support groups.
Participate in interprofessional treatment planning, case conferences, and clinical decision-making.
Support discharge planning, community reintegration, referrals, and coordination of internal and external services.
Requirements
Master's degree in Social Work (MSW)
Nice to have: Post-graduate social work experience in forensic, acute care, emergency psychiatry, or addiction settings
Nice to have: Experience facilitating individual and group interventions using CBT, DBT, mindfulness, or other evidence-based modalities
Nice to have: Experience with psychiatric and forensic risk assessments and Ontario Review Board or legal reporting
Nice to have: Experience supervising MSW students and collaborating with academic institutions
Provide expert virtual mental health assessment, triage, clinical formulation, crisis intervention, and care coordination for consumers with complex and high-risk mental health presentations while providing clinical leadership and support.
Compensation
$149,408 – $152,392 per annum (Clinical Nurse Consultant Gde 2)
Responsibilities
Provide expert virtual mental health assessment, triage, clinical formulation, crisis intervention and care coordination for consumers with complex and high-risk mental health presentations.
Provide clinical leadership, specialist advice and decision-making support to nurses, paramedics and other clinicians managing complex mental health presentations.
Work collaboratively with virtual psychiatry services, NSW Ambulance clinicians and operational teams including the Mental Health Acute Assessment Team (MHAAT) and other health and community services to provide coordinated, person-centred and least restrictive care.
Strengthen workforce capability through clinical supervision, mentoring, education and the advancement of specialist mental health nursing practice.
Contribute to clinical governance, research, quality improvement and the development of contemporary models of virtual mental health care across NSW.
Requirements
current unrestricted registration as a Registered Nurse with AHPRA
postgraduate qualification for appointment as a Clinical Nurse Consultant Grade 2
Senior mental health clinician providing expert clinical consultation, assessment, transition planning and care pathway identification within the Pathways to Community Living Initiative.
Compensation
Social Worker or Occupational Therapist Level 3: $61.31 - $63.29 per hour
Clinical Nurse Specialist Grade 2: $64.70 - $66.83 per hour
Senior Psychologist: $65.02 - $70.46 per hour
