Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
References
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Syed Shah Sultan

Huntfield Heights

Summary

Invested Social Worker dedicated to forming trusting relationships and advocating for best interests of clients. Expertise in community mental health and AOD. Respectful and compassionate professional offering 3 year background serving community by providing guidance for clients in need.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Social Worker

SA Health - Community Mental Health Team
06.2022 - Current

• Maintains relationships with non-government organisations or other government organisations to
meet the needs of the consumer and family/carer groups.
• Working with individuals where there are multiple complexities and diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration or other incidents and escalating appropriately.
• Providing evidenced based care, developing clinical skills while keeping up to date with professional
standards of practice and quality management initiatives consistent with organisational policies.
• Working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team.

Acting Senior Social Worker

Community Mental Health Team
06.2024 - 08.2024


  • I supported and worked collaboratively with less experienced members of the team and provided supervision.
  • Enhanced community resources for clients through collaboration with local agencies and organizations.
  • Led multidisciplinary team meetings to review client progress and adjust treatment plans as needed.
  • Strengthened interagency partnerships by regularly attending meetings and sharing information, resulting in improved service delivery for clients.

Community Mental Health Worker

AMC - The Change Factor
08.2020 - 10.2022
  • Deliver individualized counseling services to clients working through issues such as mental illness and substance abuse.
  • Evaluate clients based on mental and physical parameters discovered through interviews and standardized assessments.
  • Work with family members to develop support networks and multifaceted coping techniques focused on client needs.
  • Perform client assessments and developed treatment plans.

Youth & Family Alcohol and Other Drugs Worker

Mission Australia
09.2021 - 06.2022
  • Write reports for family and caregivers, documenting progress, challenges and therapy milestones.
  • Provide comprehensive case management services, created treatment plans and connected clients and families to appropriate resources.
  • Develop goal-oriented psychoeducational and activity therapy groups to improve clients' level of functioning.
  • Manage caseload of 15 clients with alcohol and substance dependence.

Social Work Placement

Life Without Barriers
02.2021 - 06.2021
  • Prepared variety of different written communications, reports and documents as AOD placement student.
  • Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results.

Community Support Worker

CDESSA
07.2020 - 04.2021
  • Enlisted support of volunteers and collaborated with businesses and community groups.
  • Supported clients in developing goals and social skills, improving individual wellness and productivity.

Education

Master of Social Work -

Flinders University
Bedford Park, SA
06.2021

Bachelor of Social Science -

Bahria University
Karachi, Pakistan
02.2018

Skills

  • Experience working with people who have a mental illness, their families and/or carers
  • Experience in collaborative development, implementation and monitoring of planned interventions for
    consumers of mental health services with complex needs
  • Experience in development and maintenance of therapeutic relationships with consumers having
    enduring and severe disability and complex needs, and their families and carers
  • Successful participation in a multidisciplinary team environment
  • Experience in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers

Certification

  • Mental Health First Aid
  • First Aid
  • Safe Environment
  • Tuning in to Teens - Facilitator training (emotionally intelligent parenting)
  • RRHAN - Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect - Education and Care training
  • Advance supervision clinical training
  • Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • The Social and Emotional well being of LGBTIQA + young people
  • Responding to Domestic and Family violence
  • I have recently completed my 'Authorised Mental Health Professional' (AMHP) training to be able to make level 1 community treatment orders and level 1 inpatient treatment orders.

References

References Available Upon Request

Timeline

Acting Senior Social Worker

Community Mental Health Team
06.2024 - 08.2024

Social Worker

SA Health - Community Mental Health Team
06.2022 - Current

Youth & Family Alcohol and Other Drugs Worker

Mission Australia
09.2021 - 06.2022

Social Work Placement

Life Without Barriers
02.2021 - 06.2021

Community Mental Health Worker

AMC - The Change Factor
08.2020 - 10.2022

Community Support Worker

CDESSA
07.2020 - 04.2021

Master of Social Work -

Flinders University

Bachelor of Social Science -

Bahria University
  • Mental Health First Aid
  • First Aid
  • Safe Environment
  • Tuning in to Teens - Facilitator training (emotionally intelligent parenting)
  • RRHAN - Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect - Education and Care training
  • Advance supervision clinical training
  • Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • The Social and Emotional well being of LGBTIQA + young people
  • Responding to Domestic and Family violence
  • I have recently completed my 'Authorised Mental Health Professional' (AMHP) training to be able to make level 1 community treatment orders and level 1 inpatient treatment orders.
Syed Shah Sultan