About the role
Your new role
Make a meaningful difference in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing by bringing your advanced social work expertise to a collaborative, community-focused healthcare service. In this senior position, you will:
- Deliver high-quality, evidence-based social work clinical services, including complex assessments, interventions and care planning, as part of a highly functioning interprofessional team.
- Provide advanced clinical advice and support to the Social Emotional and Wellbeing team, contributing to complex clinical decision-making and ensuring services are responsive to their needs and priorities.es and improve patient outcomes.
- Provide clinical supervision, education and mentoring to less experienced clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants, while supporting the ongoing development of the wider team.
This is an identified vacancy with a genuine occupational requirement for the position to be filled by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person. Candidates must include a statement in their application outlining if they identify as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person. Only candidates who meet this requirement will be considered.
About you
You are an experienced and passionate Social Worker who brings strong clinical expertise, cultural responsiveness and a genuine commitment to improving health and wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. You will demonstrate:
- Advanced knowledge, expertise and skills in delivering social work clinical services within a health service, including managing complex presentations and competing clinical priorities.
- A comprehensive understanding of the social determinants of health and their impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, with the ability to deliver culturally responsive and trauma-informed care.
- Highly developed communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to provide clinical advice, build effective stakeholder relationships and navigate complex situations.
- Demonstrated leadership capability, including supervising and supporting developing practitioners and students, and initiating service improvement activities that enhance clinical practice and patient care.
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.
Southern Queensland Centre of Excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care
The Centre is a Queensland Health service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Located in Inala, 18 km Southwest of Brisbane CBD, our clinic is staffed by GPs, nurses, allied health, and Aboriginal health workers, and visiting medical specialists. We also provide health-related services at a community level, and our research team is dedicated to finding and publishing evidence about how to improve the health of our patients.
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.