Social Worker

Metro South Hospital and Health Service; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave entitlements

Salary packaging

Professional development allowances

Job summary

Metro South Hospital and Health Service, through the Princess Alexandra Hospital Social Work Department, seeks a motivated social work professional to deliver psychosocial assessments and interventions. You will work within an interprofessional team to support patients, families and carers throughout their healthcare journey, with a focus on safe and effective discharge planning.

You will manage caseloads across diverse clinical areas, contribute to student supervision and professional

Qualifications

• Deliver comprehensive psychosocial assessments and interventions in a health setting.
• Collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams to support patient care.
• Contribute to clinical education, supervision, and quality improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychosocial assessments, therapeutic interventions, and patient education.
• Manage a caseload across diverse clinical areas with multidisciplinary input.
• Support student learning and participate in professional development activities.
• Contribute to quality improvement and service delivery enhancements.

Skills

Clinical social work

Interprofessional collaboration

Communication skills

Professional development

Education

Bachelor of Social Work

Job description

This role is a frontline role that provides essential frontline servicesYour new role:Join the Social Work Department at Princess Alexandra Hospital and make a meaningful contribution to patient care across a diverse and dynamic hospital environment. Working as part of an interprofessional team, you will provide clinical social work services that support patients, families and carers throughout their healthcare journey. In this role, you will:Deliver comprehensive psychosocial assessments, therapeutic interventions and patient education, applying a health-focused approach to support patient wellbeing and safe, effective discharge planning.Manage an allocated caseload across diverse clinical areas, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, patients, families and external stakeholders to achieve positive, patient-centred outcomes.Contribute to clinical education, student supervision, professional development and quality improvement initiatives that strengthen social work practice and service delivery.About you:You are a motivated and compassionate social work professional who enjoys working in a collaborative hospital environment. You bring sound clinical judgement, strong communication skills and the ability to adapt your approach to meet the diverse needs of patients and their families. You can demonstrate:The ability to deliver high-quality, efficient and patient-centred social work assessments and interventions across a range of clinical settings, using sound clinical judgement and professional practice standards.Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams, build positive relationships and contribute to coordinated patient care.A commitment to ongoing professional development, clinical education and service improvement, with the ability to support student learning and contribute to initiatives that enhance social work services.Check out our quick tips and application essentials!What we can offer you:We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your roleYou'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.About us:The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCEOur values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.We are better together.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.