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Social Worker - Senior (Mental Health Hospital in the Home), Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service


Cairns

An exciting opportunity currently exists for you to join the Mental Health, Alcohol, and Other Drugs Services as a Social Worker - Senior (Mental Health Hospital in the Home). You will deliver high quality evidenced based social work clinical services to patients/consumers as part of a high functioning acute mental health multi-disciplinary team.

Job details

Position status Permanent
Position type Part-time
Occupational group Health - Nursing
Classification HP4
Workplace Location Cairns region,Far North Qld
Job ad reference QLD/CAH670889
Closing date 16-Dec-2025
Job duration Permanent Part Time
Contact person Saluja Khadka
Contact details 07 4226 3100
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About us: 

Our staff are a part of the community we serve, and we strongly believe that health outcomes are enhanced by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of local health services.

About your opportunity:

In this position you will….. 

  • Acts as a clinical reference point with the MH-HITH team and respond to every-day clinical demands.
  • Actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings including clinical care reviews and departmental meetings.
  • Demonstrate high level clinical and time management skills in screening and prioritising workload demands in a complex and high patient clinical environment.

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:

  • Generous superannuation
  • Salary packaging
  • Annual incremental increases
  • Career training and development
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Wellness programs

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland.

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Last updated
2 May 2023

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