Are you an experienced Social Worker passionate about strengthening social work practice and student wellbeing?

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 for students.

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.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

Job details

About the Department of Education:

Working for the Queensland Department of Education means joining an organisation that values its people and promotes leadership and innovation. Be part of an environment that respects professionalism and diversity, offers training and development opportunities and embraces flexible careers and work-life balance. Find out more about working with us.

Step Into Your Next Chapter:

• Provide leadership and professional supervision to social workers at a regional level, in collaboration with regional and school management, in the delivery of safe, high quality effective services.
• Direct and support social workers and school management teams in assessing social work requirements and identifying appropriate responses and interventions to support students, their families and carers for the purpose of assisting student's educational outcomes and wellbeing and mental health.
• As required, respond to the needs of the student population and school community to provide personal and family counselling, therapy and group work, facilitation for referrals to other allied health professionals, and service and care coordination for the purpose of assisting student's wellbeing and mental health.
• Respond to complex social work complaints in collaboration with senior social workers, regional managers and school principals.
• Oversee the research, development, implementation and evaluation of validated clinical practices, policies and protocols relating to the practice of social work across the region.

Please view the role description for a full list of responsibilities.

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.

Submit Your Application:

• 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.

• Applicant Information Package (PDF, 232KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MSR685102_26T Role Description (PDF, 254KB)
  Role Description