Start Your Social Work Career at Princess Alexandra Hospital

Begin your social work career with Metro South Health at Princess Alexandra Hospital. Join a supportive multidisciplinary team, gain experience across diverse clinical areas and develop your skills while making a meaningful difference to patients, families and carers.

About This Role

Your new role

Skills

As a Graduate Social Worker at Princess Alexandra Hospital, you'll build your clinical skills in a supportive hospital environment while working alongside experienced social workers and multidisciplinary teams. You will:

- Complete psychosocial assessments and provide evidence-informed social work interventions.
- Support patients, families and carers with complex social, emotional and practical needs.
- Contribute to discharge planning, referrals, advocacy and connections with community services.
- Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to achieve patient-centred outcomes.

About You You're a compassionate and motivated graduate social worker who is ready to learn, collaborate and develop your clinical practice in a dynamic hospital environment. You bring strong communication skills, a commitment to patient centred care and the ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will:

- Demonstrate empathy, respect and a commitment to secure, compassionate and inclusive care.
- Communicate effectively and work positively with patients, families, carers and multidisciplinary teams.
- Show enthusiasm for learning and developing clinical knowledge through supervision, feedback and professional development.
- Demonstrate the ability to prioritise workload,



develop clinical judgement and contribute to service improvement initiatives.

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 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 significant 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.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

📌 Social Worker - Graduate (Queensland)
🏢 Metro South Health
📍 Queensland