About the Department of Education
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

Your Role and responsibilities include:As the Senior Advisor Social Work, you will:

• Support students to access and fully participate in learning and experience success and wellbeing across all stages of learning by ensuring delivery of evidence-based contemporary social work services.
• Contribute to the development of state-wide programs, policies, operational standards and procedures for the delivery of high-quality social work services across the region.
• Provide professional supervision, direction, leadership and support to social workers within the region.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide leadership and professional supervision to social workers at a regional level, in collaboration with regional and school management, in the delivery of safe, high quality effective services.
• Direct and support social workers and school management teams in assessing social work requirements and identifying appropriate responses and interventions to support students, their families and carers to assist student's educational outcomes, wellbeing and mental health.
• As required, respond to the needs of the student population and school community to provide personal and family counselling, therapy and group work, facilitation for referrals to other allied health professionals.
• Respond to complex social work complaints in collaboration with senior social workers, regional managers and school principals.
• Oversee the research, development, implementation and evaluation of validated clinical practices, policies and protocols relating to the practice of social work across the region.
• Provide strategic advice to the senior officers to inform strategic decision making on state-wide social work service provision which enables the achievement of the department's Strategic Plan.

Benefits: What you can expect in return:

• Flexible work options
• Full-time options available
• 12.5% superannuation available

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
How to Apply

• Please attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history); and
• A 2-pg written statement in response to the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.