Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Social Worker Lvl 1/2
Remuneration: $73,427 - $85,800 p.a plus superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ563673

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s or postgraduate degree in social work and hold professional membership or be eligible for full membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
• The CTT is a statewide service, supporting people from several correctional centres across Sydney metropolitan and regional NSW, and liaising with all NSW Health Local Health Districts. There is a requirement to travel to various locations across NSW on occasion.

The Community Transitions Social Worker supports people who experience severe mental illness to access the necessary psychosocial care and support required to ensure a successful transition from custody to the community. The Community Transitions Social Worker is part of a multidisciplinary team (The Community Transitions Team – CTT) that works in partnership with the Custodial Mental Health Service, Local Health District (LHD) Community Mental Health Services, Primary Health Networks, and other government and non-government organisations (NGOs), in a clinical and consultative capacity to ensure continuity of care. This role focuses on assisting the CTT with identifying and sourcing specialist supported and transitional accommodation options, assisting with National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) applications in regional areas of NSW, and providing a centralised process to enhance liaison with LHDs and the transfer of care process by sharing relevant health information on people who return to custody after receiving transition support from CTT. This role will have a small clinical caseload in order to enable the completion of social work specific tasks, but to also facilitate familiarisation of the comprehensive transition support provided by remaining team members.
The Community Transitions Team is one of three teams that comprise the NSW Community Forensic Mental Health Services. The team is community based; but provides assertive prison in-reach services to support peoples’ transitions back into the community. Its aim is to develop mental health care plans, establish necessary therapeutic supports for patients, and provide follow-up community care to patients leaving custody. The team is recovery-oriented and promotes positive health outcomes and community participation.