Social Worker - Rotating Leave Reliever

Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service; Sunshine Coast Regional; On-site; AUD 83,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness program

Salary packaging

Career training and development

Annual incremental increases

Job summary

Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service is seeking a Social Worker to support Rotating Leave Relief across ED and acute/sub-acute areas. The role requires flexibility to move across sites, fast orientation, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to manage psychosocial assessment, risk, and discharge planning.

The successful candidate will work autonomously with reflective practice, contribute to high-quality clinical services, and participate in professional development while

Qualifications

• Experience in emergency department preferred.
• Ability to work autonomously with sound clinical reflection.
• Flexible across sites and clinical teams.
• Proficient in psychosocial assessment and discharge planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide Social Work services across units per professional standards.
• Maintain documentation and timely information systems.
• Participate in quality/service improvement activities.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and supervision.

Skills

Social Work

Clinical assessment

Discharge planning

Risk assessment

Multidisciplinary teams

Education

Bachelor of Social Work

Tools

EMR systems

Job description

Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service – Birtinya QLD

This frontline support role provides essential support enabling the development and delivery of frontline services, programs and outcomes.

We're excited to welcome a Social Worker to our Rotating Leave Relief team within the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service. Experience within an emergency department, and across acute and sub-acute areas would be highly desirable. The successful candidate will be comfortable moving across sites and clinical teams to provide valuable support for staff on well-earned leave. This role requires a flexible and adaptable clinician who can quickly orient to new environments, build effective working relationships with multidisciplinary teams, and confidently manage psychosocial assessment, risk assessment, and discharge planning within fast-paced hospital settings. This position demands the ability to work autonomously and independently in their clinical practice with a high degree of sound critical reflection.

As a highly functioning multidisciplinary team member, we deliver high level Social Work clinical services across one or more specific work units, to stakeholders/customers of the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service and Queensland Health (SCHHS).

Key Responsibilities include:

• Demonstrate competent knowledge, expertise and skill in the provision of Social Work services commensurate with level of experience in accordance with prescribed professional and ethical standards, existing evidence-based practice and established clinical protocols. For complex or novel cases, you will seek direction from clinical seniors as appropriate.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and patient records in line with Departmental, Unit and Health Service procedures, and contribute to the maintenance of accurate and timely information systems (statistics collection, quality data). Ensure that time spent across clinical and non-clinical work is in keeping with assigned requirements.
• Participate in quality and service improvement activities to continually improve patient/client care, including the development of clinical practices, procedures and protocols within the work environment.
• Commit to ongoing professional, service and individual development through participation in activities including professional development activities, professional supervision, supervision of students or clinical assistants, research activities.

Remuneration value up to $137 760 p.a., comprising salary between $3213.00 - $4628.00 p.f., employer contribution to superannuation (12.75%) and annual leave loading (17.5%) (HP3) (Fixed Term Temporary position available until 27/06/2027). Applications will remain current for the duration of the vacancy.

Why work for us?

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance. As a Queensland Health employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community. We encourage people of all genders, races, ages and abilities to apply for roles within our Health Service.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Sunshine Coast here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/sunshinecoast/careers

As a Sunshine Coast Health employee, you will receive competitive remuneration and have access to:

• A wellness program;
• Career training and development; and
• Salary packaging.

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