Social Worker MSPCS

Queensland Health; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly environment

Professional development allowances

Generous leave entitlements

Salary packaging options

Corporate discounts and wellness

Job summary

Queensland Health is seeking a Palliative Care Social Worker to provide compassionate, evidence-based psychosocial support to adults in palliative care across hospital and community settings.

You will deliver assessments, therapeutic interventions and family education, while coordinating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure smooth transitions between care settings and maintaining comprehensive case records.

Qualifications

• Qualified social worker with sound clinical judgement and a commitment to ethical, evidence-based care.
• Proven ability to deliver psychosocial assessments and supportive interventions.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across hospital and community settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive psychosocial assessments and patient/family education.
• Support patients and families with complex end-of-life, emotional, social and bereavement needs.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external service providers to coordinate care.
• Manage a caseload, maintain accurate clinical documentation and timely reporting.

Skills

Psychosocial assessment

End-of-life care

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor of Social Work

Job description

Support Patients and Families Through Every Stage in Princess Alexandra Hospital

Provide compassionate, person-centred social work support to adults receiving palliative care and their families. Join Metro South Palliative Care Service to make a meaningful difference across hospital and community settings.

Your new role:

Make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients and families during some of their most challenging times. As a Palliative Care Social Worker with Metro South Palliative Care Service, you will deliver compassionate, evidence-based psychosocial assessment and support to adults receiving palliative care and their families and carers across community and inpatient settings, including Canossa and Wynnum Manly Palliative Care Units.

In this role, you will:

• Provide comprehensive psychosocial assessments, therapeutic interventions and patient and family education.
• Support patients and families with complex end-of-life, emotional, social and bereavement needs.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, community organisations and external service providers to coordinate care and facilitate safe transitions between care settings.
• Manage an allocated caseload, maintain accurate clinical documentation and deliver timely service reporting.

About you:

You are a compassionate and adaptable Social Worker who can build trusting relationships with patients, families and carers during challenging and sensitive circumstances. You bring sound clinical judgement, strong communication skills and a commitment to delivering ethical, evidence-based care while working effectively across hospital and community environments.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• The ability to deliver high-quality, efficient and evidence-based palliative care social work assessment and interventions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Effective caseload management, prioritisation, problem-solving and independent working skills.
• A commitment to ongoing professional development, clinical education and continuous service improvement.

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• 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:

Metro South Palliative Care Service (MSPCS) provides specialist palliative care utilising the model for population-based care developed by Palliative Care Australia. MSPCS provides direct care in the Canossa Palliative Care Unit and Wynnum Manly Palliative Care Unit, consultative and/or direct care for patients in all hospitals in the Metro South Hospital and Health Service and provides community-based specialist palliative care across the district. Community services, including in-reach consultatory service to Residential Aged Care Facilities, are based at Brisbane South, Redland and Logan & Beaudesert. The MSPCS team is an interdisciplinary group of healthcare professionals who deliver collaborative patient-centred care in partnership with acute, domiciliary, aged care health providers and general practitioners.

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.