Make a Difference When It Matters Most

Join a collaborative hospital team with opportunities to grow your clinical skills and contribute to quality patient care.

Job details

Your new role:

Join the Social Work Department at Princess Alexandra Hospital and make a meaningful difference to patients navigating complex health challenges. In this role, you will:

• Conduct psychosocial assessments and deliver therapeutic interventions, patient education and discharge planning.
• Manage an allocated caseload, prioritising patient needs and maintaining accurate clinical documentation.
• Collaborate with patients, families, carers, healthcare professionals and external agencies to achieve person-centred outcomes.
• Contribute to clinical education, student learning, quality improvement and research activities with support from senior staff.

About you:

You are a compassionate and motivated Social Worker who values collaboration, ethical practice and delivering high-quality care. You will have:

• The ability to deliver effective, evidence-based psychosocial assessment and intervention across acute and outpatient settings.
• A strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with patients, families and multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to reflective practice, professional development and building clinical knowledge and expertise.
• The ability or willingness to develop skills in supporting student learning 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.

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.

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)
  
  MS11695493 Role Description (PDF)