Make a Difference in Cancer Care – Social Worker

Join a dedicated Cancer Services team providing high-quality social work support to patients and families. Work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment at Princess Alexandra Hospital while contributing to patient-centred care and service improvement. This role is permanent part-time for 45.6 hours per fortnight.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Social Worker within Cancer Services, you will deliver patient-centred care to individuals and families navigating cancer treatment. Working within a collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will provide clinical assessment, therapeutic support and discharge planning while contributing to education and service improvement initiatives. In this role you will:

• Deliver clinical social work services including assessment, intervention and discharge planning for cancer patients.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, patients and families to support holistic care outcomes.
• Manage an allocated caseload with effective prioritisation, documentation and reporting.
• Participate in case conferences, team meetings and interprofessional collaboration.

About you:

You are a compassionate and motivated Social Worker who thrives in a collaborative healthcare environment and is committed to delivering high quality patient-centred care. You will demonstrate:

• A tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
• An ability to deliver evidence-based clinical social work services in a healthcare setting.
• A strong communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with patients, families and multidisciplinary teams.
• A commitment to professional development, teamwork and service 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:

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.

• MS03677844 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)