Deliver high-level Social Work and clinical child development services for children and their families as part of a multidisciplinary Child Development Service (CDS) team across multiple sites of a designated Service Area.
About The Team
The Child Development Service teams provide a family-centred, specialist public health service for children who have complex developmental and behavioural concerns. The teams provide multidisciplinary clinical services and consultancy/advice to support a comprehensive understanding of the child's developmental profile and how this relates to their functioning and participation in everyday life. Teams use a strengths-based, partnership approach to enable families, key stakeholders and community providers to best support the child's optimal development, health and wellbeing across the life course.
About The Role
* Demonstrated high-level clinical experience, knowledge and skills in paediatric Social Work and developmental disability to facilitate diagnostic understanding and care planning and empower families to understand their child and promote their child's development in the context of daily life.
* Demonstrated ability to independently apply high level clinical skills within a family-centred practice framework.
* Demonstrated high standard written and verbal communication, interpersonal and leadership skills required to:
* Work effectively with children, parents/carers, team members and stakeholders;
* Provide clinical advice to professionals and operational supervisors, service managers and other relevant stakeholders as required.
* Demonstrated ability to integrate service changes into clinical practice and support integration of CDP-wide quality and service improvement activities to support the development of better discipline and specialist child development practice.
* Demonstrated capacity and ability to provide clinical practice supervision to less experienced staff and student health practitioners to ensure the maintenance of professional clinical standards.
About Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service (CHQ HHS)
Children's Health Queensland is a recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, teaching and research, delivering a full range of clinical services and training, tertiary and quaternary care and health promotion programs to children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
Our interprofessional workforce of more than 5,000 people deliver responsive, integrated and internationally recognised person-centred care through a network of services and facilities, including the Queensland Children's Hospital, Jacaranda Place, Ellen Barron Family Centre, our Child and Youth Community Health Service, our Child and Youth Mental Health Service, and other statewide services and programs including specialist outreach and telehealth services.
Inclusion and Diversity
To encourage inclusive practices in recruitment, we are committed to increasing our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce and building inclusive cultures that respect and promote human rights and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion. CHQ is an equal opportunity employer.
Benefits
* Opportunities for professional growth and development
* Competitive remuneration
* Annual pay increases
* 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
* 17.5% annual leave loading
* Salary packaging
* Employee wellness and assistance program
* Work/life balance, variety, and flexibility
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
Occupational group: Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support
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