Social Worker

BallyCara is an established charitable organisation that offers a wellness-focused lifestyle for our clients to facilitate independent living, health, and happiness.

At BallyCara, you will belong to a welcoming and inclusive community where your individual strengths and interests are embraced and are the key driver to everything that we create together. We will empower you with flexibility, autonomy and coaching to allow you to make a meaningful difference, whilst supporting you in your career and personal journey.

We inspire healthy and happy living through our SONA® (Happiness) ethos and enhance our employee's wellness through the following employee benefits :

• Emotional Wellness : Enhance your happiness. Accrue a wellness day off each year to take on your birthday, for your family, or just for you because you are worth it.
• Physical Wellness : Improve your health and wellbeing with a fitness allowance for yoga, pilates, swimming, or gym plus access to an online fitness portal LIFT Fitness!
• Professional Wellness : Enhance your career with two days of paid study leave combined with yearly study assistance!
• Financial Wellness : access not-for-profit salary packaging up to $18,550, receive 17.5% annual leave loading, and up to $1,892 per annum in financial discounts from our Lifeworks EAP and wellbeing portal!
• Description

About the role

Ballycara is seeking a Social Worker to join the team!

Reporting to the Senior Social Worker, this role will support the social & mental health of clients by utilising professional expertise to guide and inform the case management of individuals with multi-faceted / complex issues across a variety of programs.

• Skills and Experiences
• The successful applicant will hold
• Degree in Social Work from an accredited course and membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers
• Current Driver's Licence and reliable car with willingness to use for work purpose travel. (KM will be paid between clients)
• Clinical skills in assessment, delivering appropriate interventions, counselling, advocacy and liaison and referral to ensure access to appropriate community services
• Experience working with older adult clients who have chronic and complex health conditions and the capacity to work with this client group in a community setting under various MyAged Care funding models (CHSP, HCP, STRC)
• Experience / knowledge of MyAged care system
• Understanding of the psychosocial impact and management of chronic health conditions, ageing and disability and knowledge of grief and bereavement theory,
• Ability to work independently at a professional level as well as the ability to work productively as a member of a multidisciplinary team in a community health setting
• To work as part of a muti-diciplinary team to ensure the development and delivery of effective and pro-active social work services
• Demonstrated commitment to person-centred care

Position Requirements

• Police check
• Flu vaccination
• Covid vaccination
• Driver's licence