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Social Worker - Senior

Metro South Health Service
Woolloongabba, QLD
A$64.64 p/h
Healthcare & Medical → Psychology, Counselling & Social Work
Part-time
On-site

Posted 4 days ago


Your new role:

As a Senior Social Worker in Clinical Education, you'll deliver high-quality, evidence-based care and enhance patient outcomes by:

  • Delivering comprehensive social work assessments, interventions, and evaluations within an interprofessional team.
  • Providing clinical education, supervision, and mentorship to students, graduates, and early-career clinicians.
  • Developing and delivering innovative, evidence-based education programs and workshops.
  • Supporting service quality and clinical improvement initiatives across the department.
  • Applying advanced clinical reasoning, decision-making and independent practice to complex cases.
  • Contributing to policy, procedure, and protocol development aligned with best practice.

About you:

You're a dedicated social work professional passionate about clinical excellence and education, thriving in a fast-paced environment with:

  • A tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver high-level clinical services within a healthcare setting.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Experience supervising, mentoring, or supporting students and less experienced practitioners.
  • Proven ability to plan, deliver, and evaluate educational or service improvement initiatives.
  • Excellent time management, prioritisation, and organisational skills within a complex clinical environment.

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What we can offer you:

  • The opportunity to make a lasting impact through education and mentorship in a leading tertiary hospital.
  • Access to a supportive, values-driven team committed to excellence, compassion, and innovation.
  • Flexible work options to support work-life balance, including part-time arrangements.
  • Opportunities for ongoing learning, research involvement, and professional growth.
  • The satisfaction of contributing to an inclusive and diverse workplace that reflects and serves its community.
  • 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.


About Metro South Health Service

Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia

Metro South Health is the major provider of public health services, and health education and research, in the Brisbane south side, Logan, Redlands and Scenic Rim regions.

We serve an estimated population of 1 million people, 23 per cent of Queensland’s population. We employ more than 10,000 staff and have an annual operating budget of $1.6 billion.

Our catchment spans 3,856 square kilometres and covers the area from the Brisbane River in the north to Redland City in the east, south to Logan and the eastern portion of the Scenic Rim to the border of New South Wales.

We have five major hospitals in addition to a number of health centres throughout the region.

Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.

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