Social Worker

Health; Queensland; Hybrid; AUD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Health’s Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to join a multidisciplinary team across diverse clinical areas. You will deliver psychosocial assessments, provide patient education and support discharge planning, contributing to patient wellbeing and safe transitions of care.

You will manage a caseload with clinicians, patients and families, while engaging in education, supervision and quality initiatives to strengthen social work services within

Qualifications

• Deliver high-quality psychosocial assessments and interventions across diverse clinical settings.
• Provide patient education and contribute to safe discharge planning and care coordination.
• Support patients and families with compassionate, patient-centered care within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Psychosocial assessment

Interprofessional collaboration

Communication skills

Discharge planning

Clinical judgement

Job description

# Social Worker**Queensland Health** (Organisation site) Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba**Bring your social work expertise to a team that makes a difference every day****Work within a supportive multidisciplinary environment, delivering high quality social work services across diverse clinical areas while supporting patients and their families through assessment, intervention and discharge planning.**## Job details| | || --- | --- || Position status | Permanent || Position type | Full-time || Occupational group | Psychology, Counselling & Social Work || Classification | HP3 || Workplace Location | Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South || Job ad reference | QLD/MS11696759 || Closing date | 25-Nov-2026 || Job duration | || Contact person | Fiona Trad || Contact details | [phone] Access the National Relay Service |#### This role is a frontline role that provides essential frontline services#### Your 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 role* You'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 | EXCELLENCE**Our 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*.## Further informationWe are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.## DocumentsBefore applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.* MS11696759\\_Role Description (PDF) Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF) We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)