Social Worker - Advanced Clinical

Shape Lives Beyond Rehabilitation – Advanced Social Work Opportunity

Join a specialist multidisciplinary rehabilitation team supporting people with spinal cord injuries as they transition from hospital to community living.

Your new role:

As a Senior Social Worker within the Transitional Rehabilitation Program, you will deliver advanced clinical services and provide specialist consultancy to individuals with spinal cord injuries navigating the transition from hospital rehabilitation to community life. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you will lead clinical practice development, mentor emerging clinicians and contribute to innovative service improvement initiatives that enhance patient outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering advanced Social Work assessment, intervention and care planning for people with complex rehabilitation needs.
• Providing clinical leadership, supervision and mentoring to Social Workers, allied health assistants and students.
• Leading the development of evidence-based clinical practices, protocols and innovative models of community rehabilitation.
• Contributing to service improvement, quality initiatives, research activities and professional education across the service.

About you:

You are an experienced Social Worker who is passionate about patient-centred rehabilitation and committed to advancing clinical excellence. You thrive in complex clinical environments, enjoy mentoring others and bring a collaborative approach to leadership and service development.

You will demonstrate:

• Advanced clinical expertise in Social Work practice, ideally within rehabilitation, disability, community health or complex care settings.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence and support multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience supervising, mentoring and developing clinicians, students or support staff.
• Exceptional assessment, problem-solving and clinical decision-making skills when working with complex patient presentations.

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:

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.

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.