Director Social Work

3 days ago

Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the RoleThe position requires a demonstration of high-level strategic leadership and managerial knowledge, skills and experience to drive service improvement and high value care inclusive of Social Work services, the Pastoral Care Service, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Hospital Liaison Officer Service.
The position acts as an expert level reference point for tertiary level Social Work services and models of care in Metro South Health, state-wide and nationally.
- Provide strategic clinical and professional leadership to deliver, improve, and evaluate Social Work clinical services, clinical education and research programs across a complex tertiary service in accordance with Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Code of Ethics and AASW Professional Practice Standards. - Lead and direct the clinical and professional governance standards and activities for Social Work services at PAH, social work in mental health (via the MSH Mental Health Professional Lead), and the Statewide Clinical Education Program Manager. Establish and maintain strong partnerships with allied health, nursing and medical professionals and other stakeholders within and beyond Metro South Health to progress strategic social work and multidisciplinary projects.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 (Health Employment Directive No. 12/21 (PDF) and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70 (PDF))

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