Make a meaningful impact as a social worker at PA Hospital.

Join a passionate, multidisciplinary Social Work Department at Princess Alexandra Hospital, delivering patient-centred care across varied clinical areas. Use your skills to support assessment, intervention, education and discharge planning while growing through supervision and professional development. This role is permanent or temporary full time.

Job details

Your new role:

In this role, you'll deliver high-quality social work services across a range of clinical settings within the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Working closely with interprofessional teams, you will support patients, contribute to safe and effective care, and participate in service improvement activities. Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering psychosocial assessments, therapeutic interventions and discharge planning in line with evidence-based practice.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, patients, families and external agencies to achieve patient-centred outcomes.
• Managing your caseload effectively, maintaining accurate documentation and service statistics.
• Contributing to clinical education, quality improvement and departmental initiatives under the guidance of senior staff.

About you:

You're a compassionate, motivated Social Worker who thrives in a fast-paced hospital setting and enjoys contributing to collaborative, patient-centred care. You will bring:

• Strong clinical capability in assessment, intervention and evidence-based social work practice.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively within interprofessional teams.
• Commitment to ongoing learning, reflective practice and professional development.
• Initiative and readiness to contribute to education, service improvement and quality outcomes.
  
  

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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:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

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)
  
  MS12671903 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)