Senior Social Worker | Redland Hospital – Acute Care Leadership Across Complex Settings

Step into a senior clinical role where your expertise shapes safe, person-centred care across acute medical, surgical and specialist hospital settings. Lead, support and influence high-quality social work practice in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

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Your new role:

This Senior Social Worker role delivers advanced, evidence-based social work services across Redland Hospital's Medical and Surgical Wards, with exposure to a broad range of acute and specialist areas including ICU, ED, maternity, paediatrics and residential care settings. You will undertake complex assessments, risk management, intervention and discharge planning while working as a key clinical reference point within a highly functioning interprofessional team. The role also plays a pivotal part in service improvement, clinical education and quality initiatives, while providing supervision and guidance to less experienced clinicians, students and support staff.

About you:

You are an experienced and confident Social Worker who thrives in complex acute hospital environments, bringing strong clinical judgement, collaborative practice and a commitment to high-quality, person-centred care across diverse clinical settings. You will have:

• Proven experience delivering advanced social work services in acute hospital settings
• Strong capability in complex assessment, risk management, discharge planning and intervention
• Confident communicator with the ability to influence, negotiate and work effectively in multidisciplinary teams
• Demonstrated ability to supervise, support and develop less experienced clinicians and students
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, service improvement and culturally responsive care

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• 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.

The Social Work Department is a dynamic, collaborative team providing comprehensive clinical social work services across Redland Hospital and Redland Residential Care within Bayside Health Service, supporting both inpatient and outpatient care.

The team is also part of Metro South Health's commitment to advancing healthcare through translational research, including building research capability through training and education, strengthening research finance processes, and promoting strong ethics, governance and research engagement across the service.

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 Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

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

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• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS07686011 Role Description (PDF)