Join QEII Jubilee Hospital as a Senior Social Worker Delivering Expert Care Across Critical Clinical Areas

Deliver expert social work services in a dynamic hospital setting, providing leadership, clinical excellence, and compassionate care across the Emergency Department, ICU, and other critical clinical areas.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Senior Social Worker at QEII Jubilee Hospital, you will lead and deliver high-quality social work services while contributing to service improvement and team development, by:

• Managing a complex clinical caseload, providing assessment, intervention, and evaluation in line with evidence-based practice.
• Acting as a clinical reference point and collaborating with the interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient care.
• Providing supervision, guidance, and training to less experienced staff, students, and allied health assistants.
• Developing, implementing, and reviewing clinical practices, protocols, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Engaging with patients, carers, and community organisations to ensure smooth discharge planning and patient-centered care.
• Participating in service leadership, including recruitment, orientation, and professional development of new staff.

About you:

You are a highly skilled social work professional who thrives in a fast-paced hospital environment, demonstrating clinical expertise and leadership, with:

• Demonstrated ability to provide high-level social work services in Emergency, ICU, or complex clinical settings.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills for effective participation in interprofessional teams.
• Experience in supervising, mentoring, and supporting less experienced practitioners and students.
• Capability to initiate, plan, and evaluate service improvement and quality initiatives.
• Exceptional organisational skills to prioritise workloads, manage multiple demands, and support optimal patient outcomes.
• Commitment to culturally safe, inclusive, and patient-centered care in a diverse community.

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What we can offer you:

• Flexible working arrangements to help you balance career goals with personal, community, and cultural commitments.
• Opportunities to develop professionally through training, mentoring, and access to quality improvement initiatives.
• A chance to work in a culturally diverse environment, reflecting and supporting the community we serve.
• A collaborative, team-focused culture where your expertise and leadership make a real impact.
• 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.

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

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.

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 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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS10662795_Role Description (PDF, 711KB)
  Role Description