Social Worker - Advanced

Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service; Toowoomba Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development funding

EAP access

Private health insurance discounts

Fitness Passport

Job summary

Darling Downs Health in Toowoomba is seeking an Advanced Social Worker to lead complex practice, support clinicians, and influence service improvement across our health service.

You will mentor teams, provide expert clinical judgment, and collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver person-centred care and better patient outcomes.

Join us to grow professionally in a region-wide health service that values people, purpose, and meaningful community impact.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing complex social work matters with advanced clinical reasoning.
• Strong communication, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and support development of clinicians and teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical expertise for complex and sensitive cases.
• Partner with clinicians, leaders, and service providers to achieve positive outcomes and coordinated care.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives to enhance social work practice.
• Build capability across the workforce through supervision, mentoring, education, and leadership.

Skills

Advanced clinical reasoning

Evidence-based practice

Communication

Collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership/mentoring

Education

Postgraduate study in social work

Job description

Join Darling Downs Health as an Advanced Social Worker in Toowoomba and use your expertise to make a meaningful difference across a diverse health service. This is an opportunity to lead complex practice, support and mentor clinicians, influence service improvement, and help deliver better outcomes for patients, families, and communities while growing your own professional impact.

What Your Day Could Look Like

As an Advanced Social Worker, you'll play an important role in improving outcomes for patients, families, and multidisciplinary teams across the health service. From guiding complex care decisions to strengthening professional practice, you'll work with colleagues and stakeholders to deliver high-quality, person-centred support that creates lasting impact.

Every Day, You'll Contribute By

• Providing advanced clinical expertise for complex and sensitive situations, helping patients and families navigate challenges and access the support they need.
• Partnering with clinicians, leaders, and service providers to achieve positive outcomes and coordinated care across the patient journey.
• Leading quality improvement initiatives that enhance social work practice, strengthen service delivery, and support better experiences for patients.
• Building capability across the workforce through clinical supervision, mentoring, education, and professional leadership.

Let’s Talk About You

You're a compassionate and confident social work professional who combines expert clinical judgement with a genuine commitment to people. You lead with integrity and have the courage to navigate complexity while supporting others to succeed. You take pride in creating positive change and helping patients achieve the best possible outcomes. You're not here to simply maintain services, you're here to improve them and make a meaningful difference.

Here’s What Will Help You Thrive In This Role

• Extensive experience managing complex social work matters using advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.
• Strong communication, collaboration, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and support the development of clinicians and teams.

You’ll stand out from the crowd if you have postgraduate study relevant to social work practice and/or experience leading service improvement initiatives in complex healthcare environments.

Together, you'll help deliver exceptional care, strengthen practice, and create meaningful impact for the communities we serve.

Why Join Darling Downs Health?

At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless.

Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.

Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region.

Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:

• Maximise your take-home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety
• Access professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathways
• Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.

For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits

Your future is here. Where are you?

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.

Find out more about us!

Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:

www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

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