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Social Worker SNR
Brisbane
Make a Meaningful Difference in Brain Injury Rehabilitation in Princess Alexandra Hospital
Make a lasting difference in the lives of people impacted by brain injury. Join a collaborative rehabilitation team where you can use your specialist social work skills to support patients and families, navigate complex challenges and improve outcomes throughout their recovery journey.
Job details
| Position status | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Position type | Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support |
| Classification | HP4 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS11696830 |
| Closing date | 25-Nov-2026 |
| Job duration | Permanent |
| Contact person | Annerley Bates |
| Contact details | (07) 3176 2610 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
"This role is a frontline role that provides essential frontline services"
Join the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service as a Social Worker, delivering specialist social work services to patients and families navigating the challenges of brain injury. Working across the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Day Hospital and Jasmine Unit, you will provide complex psychosocial assessment, counselling, advocacy and discharge planning while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to support meaningful, person-centred outcomes.
In this role, you will:
- Manage a complex clinical caseload, providing comprehensive psychosocial assessments, therapeutic interventions, trauma-informed counselling, bereavement support and case management.
- Lead and contribute to complex discharge planning, advocating for patients and families while navigating disability supports, including the NDIS and National Injury Insurance Scheme (NIIS).
- Work collaboratively with patients, carers, multidisciplinary teams and external service providers to coordinate care and support successful transitions back into the community.
- Provide clinical guidance, education and supervision to less experienced practitioners and students, contributing to the development of social work practice across the service.
About you:
You are an experienced Social Worker with strong clinical expertise and a passion for supporting individuals and families through complex rehabilitation journeys. You bring confidence in managing challenging psychosocial situations, advocating for vulnerable people and working collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to achieve positive outcomes.
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:
- A tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
- Demonstrated high-level clinical knowledge and experience delivering complex social work services, ideally within a brain injury or rehabilitation setting.
- Advanced communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to provide clinical advice and build effective relationships with patients, families and stakeholders.
- Strong clinical judgement and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise competing demands, manage complex caseloads and coordinate effective discharge planning.
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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 Social Work Department forms part of the Princess Alexandra Hospital Division of Allied Health and Rehabilitation delivering a range of high-quality services to patients whose medical care and treatment is being provided through the Divisions of Surgery, Medicine, Cancer Services, Heart Lung and Critical Care, Renal Services and Rehabilitation.
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.
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