Are you an experienced Social Worker passionate about strengthening social work practice and student wellbeing across Queensland schools? This exciting opportunity exists to join the Student Wellbeing Workforce team in a regional role, working alongside Senior Advisor Social Workers, Senior Advisor Psychologists and Senior Guidance Officers - Wellbeing. In this role, you will strengthen clinical and technical supervision for school-based Social and Youth Workers while advancing high-quality social work practice across the region. You will build workforce capability through professional guidance, ensuring staff are supported to respond to the wellbeing and mental health needs of students and school communities. This is a temporary full-time opportunity (1.0 FTE) until 26 June 2026, with the possibility of extension, based in regional office.

Job details

As the Senior Advisor, Social Worker you will:

• Support students to access and fully participate in learning and experience success and wellbeing across all stages of learning by ensuring delivery of evidence-based contemporary social work services.
• Contribute to the development of statewide programs, policies, operational standards and procedures for the delivery of high-quality social work services across the region.
• Provide professional supervision, direction, leadership and support to social workers within the region.

The Senior Advisor Social Worker reports to the Metropolitan South Manager Wellbeing Workforce.

Responsibilities include:
• Provide leadership and professional supervision to regional social workers, working with regional and school management to deliver safe, high-quality services.
• Support social workers and school teams to assess needs and implement appropriate interventions for students, families and carers to improve educational outcomes, wellbeing and mental health.
• Deliver counselling, therapy, group work, referrals and care coordination in response to student and school community needs.
• Oversee the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based social work practices, policies and protocols across the region.
• Provide strategic advice to senior officers to support statewide service delivery and the department's Strategic Plan.
• Identify professional development needs and lead training initiatives to support career progression and clinical advancement.
• Promote system-wide services and lead projects supporting students with disability and strategic priorities.
• Maintain strong communication and collaboration with schools, regions and external stakeholders to support student outcomes and wellbeing.
• Represent the department in committees, forums and negotiations on social work matters.

A mandatory requirement of this role
• Possession of tertiary qualifications in Social Work and eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).

Desirable experience for this role
• Experience supervising social workers/ social work students
• Experience supporting social work professional development networks
• Experience in developing supervision tools/ case studies/ social work practice tools.

Interested? To Apply: 

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
• Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.
• Attach a copy of your mandatory qualifications/registration outlined in the attached role description 

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. 

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department. 

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted. 

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

For a full list of the position responsibilities and mandatory requirements, please ensure you download the attached Role Description and Applicant Information Package and follow the instructions.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• MSR685098_26T Role Description (PDF, 259KB)
  Role Description
  
  Applicant Information Package (PDF, 232KB)
  Information Package for Applicants