We're excited to welcome a Social Worker to our highly functioning and diligent Social Work team at Sunshine Coast University Hospital. As a crucial part of our multidisciplinary team, social workers play a vital role in providing holistic care to patients and their families by addressing the social, emotional, and practical factors that impact health and recovery. You'll work within the dynamic environment of the acute hospital setting, providing essential support to those in their greatest time of need.

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We're excited to welcome a Social Worker to our highly functioning and diligent Social Work team at Sunshine Coast University Hospital. As a crucial part of our multidisciplinary team, social workers play a vital role in providing holistic care to patients and their families by addressing the social, emotional, and practical factors that impact health and recovery. You'll work within the dynamic environment of the acute hospital setting, providing essential support to those in their greatest time of need.

Sunshine Coast Health is in southeast Queensland and extends through the coastal and hinterland areas from Caloundra in the south and Gympie in the north. 

Sunshine Coast Health is a values-based organisation. We are committed to the maintenance of a culture in which we treat our colleagues with respect as we do our patients, consumers and the community. We respect, protect and promote human rights in our decision-making and actions.

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.
• 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.

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;
• Generous superannuation;
• Flexible work arrangements;
• Career training and development; and
• Salary packaging.

Check out the latest updates here:
https://www.sunshinecoast.health.qld.gov.au/  

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

Documents

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• 20251016-applicant_information (PDF)
  
  SC668489-RD (PDF)