Grow Your Social Work Career at PA Hospital

Develop your hospital social work career with Princess Alexandra Hospital. Work in a supportive multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across diverse clinical areas. This role is temporary full-time for 3 months with the possibility of an extension.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Social Worker at Princess Alexandra Hospital, you'll provide comprehensive psychosocial assessment, intervention and discharge planning for patients with complex health needs. Working within a collaborative multidisciplinary team, you'll deliver evidence-based, patient-centred care while developing your clinical expertise through supervision, education and ongoing professional development. You'll also contribute to service improvement initiatives that enhance outcomes for patients and their families. In this role, you will:

• Deliver high-quality psychosocial assessment, intervention and discharge planning.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to achieve the best patient outcomes.
• Manage a varied clinical caseload across different hospital specialties.
• Build your skills through supervision, professional development and education.

About you:

We're looking for a compassionate and motivated Social Worker who enjoys working in a collaborative healthcare environment and is committed to delivering exceptional patient care. You'll bring:

• Strong psychosocial assessment and clinical decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork across multidisciplinary settings.
• Effective time management and ability to manage a varied caseload.
• A commitment to continuous learning, evidence-based practice and quality improvement.

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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)
  
  MS07687602 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)