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Senior Social Worker
Woolloongabba
Lead Change in Domestic & Family Violence Care
Join the Vulnerable Patients Social Work Team at Princess Alexandra Hospital and deliver specialist domestic and family violence services. Apply advanced clinical skills, collaborate across health and community sectors, support high-risk patients, and contribute to service improvement, education, and reform initiatives. This role is Permanent Part-Time (38 hrs per fortnight).
Job details
| Position status | Permanent |
|---|---|
| Position type | Part-time |
| Occupational group | Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support |
| Classification | HP4 |
| Workplace Location | Brisbane - South |
| Job ad reference | QLD/MS07685883 |
| Closing date | 02-Jul-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 at Princess Alexandra Hospital, you will provide specialist clinical services to patients and families impacted by domestic and family violence. Working within an integrated multidisciplinary environment, you will deliver complex assessments, safety planning, advocacy, and coordinated interventions while contributing to service development, workforce capability, and quality improvement initiatives. Key Responsibilities:
- Provide advanced social work assessment, intervention and care planning for vulnerable patients and families
- Deliver specialist domestic and family violence risk assessment, safety planning and clinical advice
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, community agencies and High Risk Teams to support integrated care
- Support child protection, sexual assault and vulnerable patient responses across the service
About you:
You are an experienced and compassionate social worker with advanced clinical skills and a commitment to improving outcomes for people experiencing domestic and family violence. You will have:
- An extensive social work experience managing complex and high-risk patient presentations
- An advanced knowledge of domestic and family violence practice, risk assessment and integrated service responses
- A strong communication, stakeholder engagement and multidisciplinary collaboration skills
- A proven ability to provide clinical leadership, supervision, education and 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.
About us:
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.
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