Your new role: As a Senior Social Worker within the Spinal Injuries Unit, you will provide expert clinical social work services to patients with spinal cord injuries. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to high-quality patient care, service development, and clinical education. Your leadership will guide less experienced clinicians and students, and your expertise will shape evidence-based practices and quality improvement initiatives. Deliver high-quality, evidence-based social work assessments, interventions, and evaluations. Act as a clinical reference for the social work team and provide advanced clinical advice. Collaborate in developing and implementing clinical policies and protocols. Advocate for patients and families using knowledge of disability, rehabilitation, and funding pathways. About you: We're looking for a skilled and compassionate social worker who thrives in a complex clinical environment and values teamwork, leadership, and continuous improvement. Extensive experience delivering social work services in rehabilitation or disability settings. Strong clinical judgement and ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Proven ability to provide clinical leadership, supervision, and training to junior staff and students. Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills. Check out our quick tips and application essentials! 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: The Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service (QSCIS) is a state-wide specialty service comprising in-patient, outpatient, in-reach, transition and outreach services for people with spinal cord injuries (SCI). QSCIS services have a strong person-centred and interdisciplinary focus and aim to provide equitable access to specialist care and rehabilitation services for people with SCI throughout Queensland. QSCIS has extensive relationships with HHSs across Queensland, and works extensively with disability funding schemes such as the NDIS, NIISQ, Workcover and My Aged Care. 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.
