About the role

• Deliver high quality social work clinical services as part of the multidisciplinary team to patients of Renal Medicine, across Metro North Hospital and Health Service. The position will function as part of the multidisciplinary Kidney Health team of The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) and will entail outreach work across Metro North Kidney Health Service including Nundah, Chermside; Kallangur, Redcliffe, Northlakes and Bribie Island Satellite Hospitals. This role will be based at Northlakes Health Precinct and outreach to Redcliffe and Kallangur, and will provide cover as required to locations across the service.
• Provide leadership in professional education, practice supervision and mentoring of less experienced staff and students within the Cancer Care and Chronic Disease Social Work team.
• Contribute to research and quality improvement initiatives within Renal Medicine and the Department of Social Work at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.

Knowledge, skills and expertise

• Demonstrated experience and skill in social work psychosocial assessment and risk management in complex situations.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with domestic and family violence and child protection assessment and intervention.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate safe and timely discharge of complex patients in a time pressured environment.
• Demonstrated ability to provide different treatment modalities and therapeutic counselling and advocacy for patients experiencing life threatening illnesses.
• Demonstrated ability to apply established ethical principles and practice standards to core social work clinical services and social work tasks.

Team Participation / Communication

• Demonstrated ability to effectively participate in social work and multidisciplinary teams and to communicate, negotiate and advocate across teams, the organisation and external agencies.
• Ability to actively participate in a working environment supporting quality human resource management practices including employment equity, anti-discrimination, occupational health safety and ethical behaviour.

Leadership / Work Unit Management

• Commensurate with experience, demonstrated ability to provide clinical practice supervision to less experienced staff members and/or field education to students.
• Demonstrated time management skills and ability to effectively triage a high volume of referrals.

Health Equity

It is expected that all Metro North Health staff, including the incumbent of this role as a valuable member of the Metro North workforce, contribute to the health equity agenda and meet the intent of supporting the defined six actions that specifically meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS), by actively supporting the elimination of racial discrimination and institutional racism; supporting increased access to health care; influencing the social, cultural and economic determinants of health; supporting the delivery of sustainable, culturally safe and responsive health services; and recognise the importance of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisations to design, deliver, monitor and review the health and support services we provide.

Benefits when working for us

• Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
• Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance
• Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
• Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75% and access to salary packaging

Be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology and innovation, excellence in healthcare, quality teaching and cutting edge research. Metro North Health is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for all employees. We offer unique and rewarding professional development opportunities in a safe and flexible work environment with a focus on putting our people first.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED VIA THIRD PARTIES (RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ETC.) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED