Lead change, empower patients and shape better outcomes as a Senior Social Worker.

Join the Metro South Health Pathways Team as a Senior Social Worker in this permanent full-time opportunity at QEII Jubilee Hospital, Coopers Plains and various Metro South Health facilities, providing expert clinical care and complex discharge planning to long-stay patients while making a meaningful difference to patient outcomes and access to the right care.

Job details

Your new role:

Join the Pathways Team to support complex long-stay patients across Metro South Health. Provide social work expertise, support discharge planning and improve patient outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver evidence-based social work services and complex case management to long-stay inpatients across acute and subacute settings.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to identify and address barriers to timely discharge, including NDIS, aged care and legal matters.
• Provide clinical advice and support complex decision-making using your expertise in disability, aged care, guardianship and psychosocial assessment.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement, clinical education and evidence-based practice.
• Provide supervision, training and support to less experienced clinicians, students and clinical assistants.
• Build effective relationships with patients, carers, health professionals and external agencies to achieve patient-centred outcomes.

About you:

Experienced social worker with strong clinical judgement, communication and collaboration skills, committed to delivering high-quality care and positive outcomes for complex patients.

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• A tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
• Demonstrated high-level knowledge and experience in social work clinical services, complex case management and discharge planning.
• Strong understanding of disability, aged care, guardianship, psychosocial assessment and complex system navigation.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, conflict resolution and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise and manage complex workloads across a busy clinical environment.
• Experience providing supervision, training and support to less experienced practitioners and students.

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What we can offer you:

• Working within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team of Allied Health professionals across Metro South Health.
• Opportunities to develop your clinical expertise in complex discharge planning, NDIS, aged care and guardianship pathways.
• A supportive workplace that values integrity, compassion, accountability, respect, engagement and excellence.
• Flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance, where operationally suitable.
• The opportunity to be part of a major public health service committed to teaching, research and improving community health outcomes.
• 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.

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

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)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS10692736_RD (PDF)