Advance Your Social Work Career at Princess Alexandra Hospital

Are you an experienced Social Worker ready to take the next step in your career? Princess Alexandra Hospital is seeking a passionate Senior Social Worker to join our Emergency Department on a permanent full-time basis.

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Your new role:

In this rewarding role, you'll provide advanced clinical social work services to patients with complex psychosocial needs while working within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team. You'll play a key role in supporting safe patient care through expert assessment, crisis intervention, discharge planning, trauma-informed practice and service development. Beyond clinical care, you'll contribute to research, quality improvement, staff development and the ongoing advancement of social work practice within one of Queensland's busiest Emergency Departments.

• Support patients through trauma, bereavement, domestic and family violence and other complex presentations.
• Provide clinical supervision, education and mentoring to junior staff, students and Allied Health Assistants.
• Contribute to quality improvement, research and service development initiatives.
• Provide clinical leadership and contribute to emergency management and disaster response activities.

About you:

You're a confident and compassionate Social Worker who thrives in a dynamic clinical environment. You enjoy working collaboratively, supporting others and continually improving patient care through evidence-based practice.

• Extensive clinical social work experience, ideally within an Emergency Department or acute hospital setting.
• Strong assessment, crisis intervention and complex discharge planning skills.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and make sound clinical decisions in high-pressure environments.
• Experience supervising, mentoring and developing less experienced clinicians and students.

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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)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  Role Description_MS07686630 (PDF)