Your new role:

As a Social Worker at Princess Alexandra Hospital, you will deliver high-quality, person-centred care, supporting patients and families through assessment, intervention, education, and safe discharge planning.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver comprehensive psychosocial assessments with a focus on trauma-informed care, risk management, and discharge planning.
• Navigate NDIS and My Aged Care pathways, staying up to date with aged care legislation and reforms.
• Collaborate with interprofessional teams to ensure patient-centred outcomes and seamless service delivery.
• Maintain accurate documentation, manage your caseload effectively, and report service statistics.
• Contribute to quality improvement and research activities within the Social Work department.
• Provide clinical education, guidance and supervision for students and junior staff.

About you:

You are a compassionate, skilled Social Worker who thrives in a dynamic hospital environment and is committed to delivering safe, equitable and evidence-based care. You bring:

• Tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligibility for AASW membership (or AASW certification of eligibility if overseas qualified).
• Experience in hospital-based social work or a similar health setting, with strong skills in psychosocial assessment and discharge planning.
• Knowledge of NDIS, My Aged Care systems, and current aged care reforms.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills for working collaboratively with patients, families, and teams.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain accurate documentation.
• Commitment to professional growth, continuous learning, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Current Blue Card (Working with Children Check) or ability to obtain one prior to appointment.

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What we can offer you:

• Opportunity to work within one of Queensland's largest and most diverse health services.
• Supportive, multidisciplinary team environment that encourages collaboration and innovation.
• Access to flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.
• Career development pathways with access to mentoring, supervision, and ongoing education.
• 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.

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

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.

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.