Social Worker

Make a Measurable Impact – Join Our Senior Social Work Team

Deliver high-quality social work services within the Internal Medicine Unit and lead clinical practice at Princess Alexandra Hospital. This role is a temporary

*Your new role:*

As a Senior Social Worker, you'll provide expert clinical services within the Internal Medicine Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital. You'll support patient care, mentor others, and contribute to service development through leadership and innovation. You will:

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based social work services across complex caseloads.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision, and mentorship to junior clinicians and students.
• Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams to support effective discharge planning and patient outcomes.
• Lead and contribute to quality improvement, service development, and research initiatives.

*About you:*

You are a compassionate and skilled professional with strong clinical expertise and leadership qualities. You will bring:

• A demonstrated experience delivering complex social work services in a hospital or healthcare setting.
• A strong communication and teamwork skills across multidisciplinary teams.
• A proven ability to lead, supervise, and mentor other practitioners.
• A commitment to quality improvement, research, and evidence-based practice.

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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.