Lead Better Patient Outcomes as a Senior Social Worker

Join QEII Jubilee Hospital as a Senior Social Worker, delivering expert clinical services across acute and subacute settings. Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to support complex patients, facilitate safe and timely discharges, mentor clinicians and contribute to service improvement initiatives that enhance patient outcomes.

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Your new role:

As a Senior Social Worker at QEII Jubilee Hospital, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based social work services to patients with complex care needs across a range of clinical areas. Working within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in discharge planning, reducing barriers to care, supporting patient wellbeing and driving service improvements that contribute to exceptional healthcare outcomes. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing a complex inpatient caseload across acute and subacute services
• Leading and coordinating complex discharge planning and long-stay patient pathways
• Providing expert social work advice regarding aged care, disability, guardianship and domestic and family violence matters
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, patients, families and external agencies

About you:

You are an experienced and compassionate Social Worker who thrives in a fast-paced hospital environment and is passionate about achieving positive patient outcomes. Key skills and attributes:

• Advanced clinical assessment and complex discharge planning expertise
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to prioritise competing demands and manage complex caseloads effectively
• Experience providing supervision, coaching and support to developing clinicians

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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.

About us:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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)
  
  MS07686286 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)