The position of Social Worker (Clinical Paediatric) will provide competent clinical Social Work services within a multidisciplinary team across all areas of the Queensland Children’s Hospital. You will provide comprehensive assessment, intervention, and consultancy for children with complex psychosocial and health issues.

Job details

About the Role

• Clinical Expertise: Deliver quality paediatric Social Work services across the continuum of care to patients and families of the Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service as part of a team of social workers or within an inter-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary team, to provide tertiary level health services to children, adolescents, and families.
• Communication: Demonstrated ability to communicate the social work role and to work cooperatively and effectively in a multidisciplinary health setting.
• Clinical Ability: Demonstrated ability to independently manage a social work caseload, using appropriate interventions that respond to child and family psychosocial needs in the context of crisis, trauma, grief, chronic illness and disability, hospitalisation, domestic and family violence and child protection.
• Leadership: An ability to incorporate quality improvement activities and / or research into clinical practice and develop skills in staff and student supervision.

About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)

Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.   

Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.

Inclusion and diversity

To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HSS

If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• Annual pay increases
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Salary packaging
• Employee wellness and assistance program
• Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.

Further information

We 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, Information Pack and Applicant Tool Kit for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

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

• CHQ_Applicant Toolkit_2025 (PDF, 862KB)
  Application Kit
  
  CHQ_Information for Applicants_2025 (PDF, 837KB)
  Application Kit
  
  563594_HP3 Social Work_Updated (PDF, 1.03MB)
  Role Description