Social Community Support jobs in Newcastle NSW

Social Workers

The Social Worker supports children and their families, primarily within the NDIS framework, to enhance wellbeing, independence, and community participation. This role involves providing strengths-based, family-centred support through assessment, planning, advocacy, and coordination of services. The Social Worker collaborates with multidisciplinary teams and external providers to navigate complex systems, address barriers, and ensure access to appropriate supports. While the focus is on paediatric clients and their families in the NDIS, the role may also extend to broader social work practice as required.

• Demonstrated competence and experience in delivering Social Work clinical services in accordance with the Australian Association of Social Work (AASW) Code of Ethics and Professional Practice Standards using well developed psychosocial assessments and intervention skills and practice evidence informed clinical care, counselling, and group work.
• Assist clients with a broad spectrum of clinical presentations/ psychosocial challenges
• Demonstrate competence in professional clinical practice and adherence to defined practice standards and the case management of client.
• Demonstrated effective written communication skills including psychosocial assessments, correspondence with service providers and clinical reports and the provision of practice within the medico legal requirements.
• Demonstrated competence in communication, negotiation, consultation, and interpersonal skills to be independent in effective problem-solving including conflict resolution and to work cooperatively with ECM Multidisciplinary Team and contribute positively in all interactions at ECM.
• Provide primary consultation (if applicable), which includes the case management of clients, ensuring assessment are appropriate, diagnosis (if appropriate) are well supported, and treatment plans personalized with specific goals.
• Provide focused psychological strategies and counselling interventions for participants as per a developed treatment plan.
• Completing reports based on assessments, therapy, support needs, strengths and weaknesses, and current capabilities.
• Development, completion, and implementation of treatment plans to assist the client in meeting their personalized and NDIS goals
• Ensure all administrative tasks (including case notes) are completed accurately and on time
• Day-to-day process of collection, use, storage and dissemination of information
• Maintain documentation in accordance with relevant legislation requirements and Educational Case Management Pty Ltd policies and procedures, including but not limited to, case notes, medication records, behaviour charts, medical and personal profiles, and reports pertaining to the progress of Clients we support as well as organisational information required
• Maintain Professional Liability Insurance, Professional Registrations, Personal Development Logs, Working with Children Check, NDIS Worker Screening Check, First Aid, and a clear Criminal Record.
• Maintain the participant’s privacy and confidentiality
• Follow reasonable directions given by the Management team.
• Have the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a multidisciplinary allied health team. Exercise professional decision making, accessing clinical practice supervision and guidance as required.
• Maintain productivity by completing 6 billable hours a day. Billable hours include but are not limited to face-to-face clients, report writing, liaising with external stakeholders and resource creation.