Social Worker Senior - Pathways

Your new role:

As a Senior Social Worker within the Pathways Team, you will play a critical role in supporting complex long-stay patients and driving timely, safe discharge outcomes across Metro South Health.

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based social work services in acute and subacute settings
• Lead complex case management and discharge planning for long-stay inpatients
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to remove barriers to patient flow and care
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement, and clinical education initiatives

About you:

You are a skilled and compassionate social work professional who thrives in complex clinical environments and is committed to improving patient outcomes.

• Demonstrated expertise in complex discharge planning and long-stay patient management
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders
• Proven ability to prioritise and manage a demanding caseload with sound clinical judgement
• Experience providing supervision, training, and contributing to service improvement initiatives

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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.

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.