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Subashni Pillay

Bracken Ridge,QLD

Summary

Invested Social Worker dedicated to forming trusting relationships with patients and their families and advocating in their best interest. Expertise in various areas, with good communication and interpersonal skills. I have strong leadership and organisational qualities. I am a compassionate professional.

Work History

Social Worker- Cancer Care Team

RBWH
08.2023 - Current
  • Assess patients on their psychosocial needs and provide education and emotional support.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to ensure appropriate care coordination and resource allocation for patients
  • Educate families on available community resources, connecting them with essential services such as housing assistance, financial aid, or healthcare providers.
  • Supported clients and families with empathy and compassion during difficult times.
  • Advocate for patients to assure respected rights and wishes.
  • Improve patients well-being by conducting comprehensive assessments and developing tailored intervention plans.

Social Worker: Permanent- Maternity and Neonatology Team

Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital
09.2013 - 07.2024
  • Delivery of advanced social work services including psychosocial assessments, interventions, counselling and referral service for patients and families in Maternity outpatients, inpatient wards as well as the neonatal intensive and special care nursery
  • Participation in multi-disciplinary team meetings and processes to ensure both the collaboration between various departments to ensure provision of an effective social work service
  • Liaise with both community social work and regional hospital social work services to ensure effective and relevant discharge planning and referral processes
  • Participation in quality improvement activities such as Model of care, coordinating journal club and professional development for the team
  • Provision of supervision to social work students as well peer supervision to other social work team members
  • Provision of educational workshops to promote and enhance social work role within the multi-disciplinary teams
  • Enhanced abilities to provide social work services to various areas within the hospital environment as an Annual Leave Reliever
  • Good skills in developing and maintaining databases within the various teams.

Social Worker; Contract –Child Protection Liaison Officer

Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital
01.2012 - 09.2012
  • Delivery of advanced social work services including psychosocial assessments, interventions, counselling and referral service for patients and families in Maternity outpatients, inpatient wards as well as the neonatal intensive and special care nursery
  • Participation in multi-disciplinary team meetings and processes to ensure both the collaboration between various departments to ensure provision of an effective social work service
  • Liaise with both community social work and regional hospital social work services to ensure effective and relevant discharge planning and referral processes
  • Participation in quality improvement activities such as Model of care, coordinating journal club and professional development for the team
  • Provision of supervision to social work students as well peer supervision to other social work team members
  • Provision of educational workshops to promote and enhance social work role within the multi-disciplinary teams
  • Enhanced abilities to provide social work services to various areas within the hospital environment as an Annual Leave Reliever
  • Good skills in developing and maintaining databases within the various teams.

Social Worker Permanent Annual leave reliever

Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital
01.2009 - 09.2013
  • Delivery of advanced social work services including psychosocial assessments, interventions, counselling and referral service for patients and families in Maternity outpatients, inpatient wards as well as the neonatal intensive and special care nursery
  • Participation in multi-disciplinary team meetings and processes to ensure both the collaboration between various departments to ensure provision of an effective social work service
  • Liaise with both community social work and regional hospital social work services to ensure effective and relevant discharge planning and referral processes
  • Participation in quality improvement activities such as Model of care, coordinating journal club and professional development for the team
  • Provision of supervision to social work students as well peer supervision to other social work team members
  • Provision of educational workshops to promote and enhance social work role within the multi-disciplinary teams
  • Enhanced abilities to provide social work services to various areas within the hospital environment as an Annual Leave Reliever
  • Good skills in developing and maintaining databases within the various teams.

Social Worker

Royal Children’s Hospital
02.2009 - 04.2009
  • Provision of social work services to patients and families in Robertson and McConnell Ward
  • These involve both short term and medium term indirect and direct services to children and their families
  • Provision of counselling, education and supportive services to patients and families
  • Direct services involve the following: bereavement intervention, case management, counselling using specific social work approaches, psycho-social assessments, outpatients clinics – part of multi disciplinary team, crisis intervention, case planning, discharge planning, education and information provided to enhance patient and families understanding of presenting medical issues, resourcing- provision of direct material aid and information in the community, mediation and advocating on behalf of all role players involved, liaising with other service providers in a professional context on behalf of the patient and families, co-ordination and collaboration to arrange or provide appropriate services for the patient and families, referrals of patients and their families to agencies in the community for appropriate follow up services.

FOSTER CARE PROGRAM COORDINATOR

TRACC STRENGTHENING FAMILIES SERVICES
01.2007 - 02.2009
  • Coordinate the general foster care program
  • Manage, support and supervise Foster Care Workers
  • The program involves providing support and supervision of foster carers caring for high to moderate needs children entering the Child Protection system in Queensland
  • The key role being the advocacy of foster carers in their demonstration of providing quality care to children in the Child Protection system
  • This role entails: responsibility of managing the recruitment campaign of foster carers and the training of potential carers, the assessment of foster carers and the re-approval of present carers, coordinating the partnership relationship with all relevant stakeholders to enhance the quality of care foster carers provide to children in care, development of protocols with the Department of Child Safety and various networking organisations in the Caboolture and Redcliffe region, liaisons with the Department of Child Safety Service Centre regarding advocating, educating and developing links and partnership with them regarding the foster care program, processing of referrals from the Department of Child Safety of foster children/young persons’ needing foster placements, the maintenance of statistical records for the team, the writing of quarterly reports for foster care team as stipulated in service agreements, the provision of after hours on call services are provided to all foster carers and the crisis care service of Department of Child Safety, maintaining the administrative responsibilities of the program, undertaking performance appraisal of staff, ensuring systems in place to meet the licensing requirements of the program, involved in the professional development of staff.

ALTERNATE CARE CO-ORDINATOR

MERCY FAMILY SERVICES
07.2006 - 09.2007
  • Co-ordinate the EPIC AND Specialist Foster Care Programs
  • Manage and supervise Alternate Care Workers
  • The program involves providing therapeutic intervention and reparative fostering to children/ young persons between the ages of 0-16 years old who display complex and extreme needs and behaviour
  • Mercy Family Services, Goodna site is funded for only the specialist foster care program
  • This position entails: the responsibility of managing the recruitment campaign of foster carers and the training of potential carers, the assessment of foster carers and the re-approval of present carers, coordinating the partnership relationship with Lifeline, Ipswich with regards to providing counselling to the children/young persons involved in the child protection system, development of protocols for organisations Lifeline, Department of Child Safety and Pathways, liaisons with the Department of Child Safety Service Centre regarding advocating, educating and developing links and partnership with them regarding the specialist foster care program, processing of referrals from the Department of Child Safety of foster children/young persons’ needing the intensive support/therapy of the program, involved in the development of information brochures, flyers, resource kit for carers, attendance at organisational meetings and regional zonal meetings at Toowoomba, involved in the training and up-skilling of foster carers, advocating for support group for foster carers, involved in the completion of overall statistics, complete functional review reports for the program on a quarterly basis, successfully completed Certificate 4 training in Training and Assessment at MRWED.

SENIOR SOCIAL WORKER

DURBAN CHILDREN’S SOCIETY
05.2003 - 01.2006
  • Social Worker – Home Finding Team
  • Providing social work services to adoptive couples, foster parents, crisis parents, adoptees, birth mothers, abandoned babies
  • Recruitment drives for foster parents, adoptive parents, crisis parents
  • Facilitate support group for foster parents caring for HIV + children – Masakhane Support Group
  • Facilitating support group for crisis parents.

CONTRACT PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKER

EKUHLENGENI CARE CENTRE
01.2002 - 12.2002
  • Provided social work services to mentally impaired children and chronically ill psychiatric patients
  • Counseled female patients and children
  • Conducted family meetings and counseling sessions
  • Completed family contact reports for periodicals
  • Liaised with other hospitals for the admission of patients to the centre
  • Transferred patients to old age homes and other hospitals
  • Worked within the multi-disciplinary team
  • Administrative tasks
  • Attended various sub-committee meetings within the hospitals
  • Represented the hospital at external meetings
  • Involved in in-service training.

Social Worker

Phoenix Child and Family Welfare Society
01.1994 - 12.2001
  • Provided social work services to various clientele including adoptive couples, foster parents, crisis parents, adoptees, birth mothers, and abandoned babies
  • Facilitated support groups for foster parents and crisis parents.

Social Worker

Tongaat Child and Family Welfare Society
01.1991 - 12.1993
  • Provided social work services to various clientele including adoptive couples, foster parents, crisis parents, adoptees, birth mothers, and abandoned babies
  • Facilitated support groups for foster parents and crisis parents.

Student Social Worker

Verulam Child and Family Welfare Society
01.1988 - 01.1990
  • Student Social Worker providing social work services to various clientele including adoptive couples, foster parents, crisis parents, adoptees, birth mothers, and abandoned babies.

Education

Degree - Bachelor Of Social Work (Hon) -

University Of Durban-Westville

University Of South Africa

Marc Ratcliffe Cert iv certificate -

01.2006

Skills

  • Understanding Of The Following Content In
  • Counselling
  • Child Protection
  • Gender Issues
  • HIV/Aids
  • Parenting
  • Foster Care And Adoption
  • Marital Relationships
  • Psychiatric
  • Family dynamics and intervention
  • Aged care
  • Oncology
  • Maternity
  • Renal failure
  • Surgical and rehabilitation units
  • Domestic violence
  • Mental health
  • Legislations
  • Elder Abuse
  • Multiculturalism

Affiliations

Member of Australian Association for Social Workers, 300747

Telephone

07 32618569 /0416886968

References

  • Kristy Fitzgerald , Assistant Director, Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital, 36468268
  • Jennifer Jewell, Acting Team Leader Cancer and Chronic Care, Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital, 36468268.


Timeline

Social Worker- Cancer Care Team

RBWH
08.2023 - Current

Social Worker: Permanent- Maternity and Neonatology Team

Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital
09.2013 - 07.2024

Social Worker; Contract –Child Protection Liaison Officer

Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital
01.2012 - 09.2012

Social Worker

Royal Children’s Hospital
02.2009 - 04.2009

Social Worker Permanent Annual leave reliever

Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital
01.2009 - 09.2013

FOSTER CARE PROGRAM COORDINATOR

TRACC STRENGTHENING FAMILIES SERVICES
01.2007 - 02.2009

ALTERNATE CARE CO-ORDINATOR

MERCY FAMILY SERVICES
07.2006 - 09.2007

SENIOR SOCIAL WORKER

DURBAN CHILDREN’S SOCIETY
05.2003 - 01.2006

CONTRACT PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKER

EKUHLENGENI CARE CENTRE
01.2002 - 12.2002

Social Worker

Phoenix Child and Family Welfare Society
01.1994 - 12.2001

Social Worker

Tongaat Child and Family Welfare Society
01.1991 - 12.1993

Student Social Worker

Verulam Child and Family Welfare Society
01.1988 - 01.1990

Degree - Bachelor Of Social Work (Hon) -

University Of Durban-Westville

University Of South Africa

Marc Ratcliffe Cert iv certificate -

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