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Senior Social Worker Mental Health


Logan Central

Lead impactful mental health care as a Senior Social Worker

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Join a high-performing multidisciplinary team where your expertise will shape patient outcomes, mentor future clinicians, and drive meaningful service improvement in a complex care environment.

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Position status Fixed Term Temporary
Position type Full-time
Occupational group Psychology, Counselling & Social Work
Classification HP4
Workplace Location Brisbane - South
Job ad reference QLD/MS04679825
Closing date 17-Apr-2026
Job duration up tp 30/06/2027
Contact person Caroline Daniels
Contact details 07 308 94099
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Your new role:

In this senior clinical position, you will deliver high-quality social work services within a multidisciplinary adult mental health continuing care team, supporting complex patient needs and service improvement.

  • Provide advanced, evidence-based social work assessment, intervention and evaluation within an interprofessional team
  • Act as a clinical reference point, offering expert advice and contributing to complex decision-making
  • Lead and contribute to service development, quality improvement and research initiatives
  • Supervise and support junior clinicians, students and allied health assistants

About you:

You are an experienced and confident social worker who thrives in a complex clinical environment and is committed to delivering patient-centred care and continuous improvement.

  • Demonstrated expertise in delivering high-level social work services within mental health or similar settings
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence across multidisciplinary teams
  • Proven ability to manage complex caseloads, prioritise effectively and deliver quality outcomes
  • Experience providing supervision, training and contributing to service improvement initiatives

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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.

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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Last updated
2 May 2023

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