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Senior Social Worker
Brisbane
Senior Social Worker | Vulnerable Patients Team in Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Join Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Vulnerable Patients Social Work Team and play a pivotal role in delivering specialist child protection services. This senior position offers the opportunity to provide expert clinical leadership, influence hospital-wide child safe practices, and support vulnerable children, young people and families within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment.
Job details
| Position status | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Position type | Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support |
| Classification | HP4 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS06684287 |
| Closing date | 15-Jun-2026 |
| Job duration | Permanent |
| Contact person | Fiona Trad |
| Contact details | (07) 3176 2610 Access the National Relay Service |
Your new role:
As a Senior Social Worker within the Vulnerable Patients Team, you will deliver high-level specialist child protection services across Princess Alexandra Hospital. Working within a highly skilled interprofessional team, you'll provide expert assessment, intervention, consultation and advocacy to support vulnerable children, young people and families.
In this role you will:
- Deliver advanced child protection social work services within a complex hospital environment
- Provide specialist consultation, safety planning and ongoing case management for patients with identified child protection concerns
- Work collaboratively with Child Safety, Queensland Police, SCAN teams and external agencies
- Lead and contribute to policy development, quality improvement and service innovation initiatives
- Support a child safe organisational culture through education, clinical leadership and advocacy
About you:
You are an experienced and compassionate Social Worker with strong clinical judgement and a commitment to child safety and trauma-informed care. You thrive in complex clinical environments and are confident working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and external agencies.
You will bring:
- Proven experience in child protection and complex social work practice
- Strong knowledge of relevant legislation, policies and child protection frameworks
- Excellent communication, consultation and stakeholder engagement skills
- The ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced clinical environment
- Experience providing supervision, mentoring and clinical education
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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:
Social workers are attached to a central Social Work Department with its own cost centre. The staff of almost 70 full time equivalents are allocated across six social work teams, namely: Cancer Services, Internal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Aged Care, Critical Care, Surgical, Chronic Disease & Illness, and Rehabilitation and Disability. A Domestic and Family Violence Co-ordinator, Child Protection Liaison Officer, Homeless Liaison Officer and Clinical Educator are located within the Social Work Department.
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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