Senior Social Worker – Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation in Metro South Health
Join a high-performing Acquired Brain Injury Transitional Rehabilitation Service (ABI TRS) as a Senior Social Worker, where you'll deliver expert clinical case management, influence service improvement, and mentor the next generation of clinicians—while making a real difference in the lives of people with ABI and their families.
About This Role
Your new role:
As a Senior Social Worker (ABI TRS), you will provide high-level clinical case management and discipline-specific services to patients with acquired brain injury across hospital, home, and community settings. Working within a highly functioning interprofessional team, you'll apply advanced clinical judgement, contribute to service development, and support high-quality, evidence-based rehabilitation care.
You will also play a key role in leadership, education, and service improvement initiatives, helping shape best practice across the ABI TRS continuum of care.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver senior-level clinical case management including assessment, intervention, evaluation, and discharge planning
* Act as a clinical reference point within the ABI TRS team, responding to complex and non-routine clinical demands
* Apply advanced, independent clinical judgement to complex decision-making with minimal supervision
* Coordinate care across hospital, home, and community environments, including liaison with funding bodies and external agencies
About You
You are an experienced and motivated Senior Social Worker with a strong background in complex clinical case management and rehabilitation. You thrive in interdisciplinary environments, communicate with confidence, and are passionate about delivering compassionate, person-centred care to people with ABI and their families.
You bring leadership capability, a commitment to continuous improvement, and the ability to balance clinical excellence with service development and mentorship.
Skills & Experience
* Demonstrated high-level experience in clinical case management and ABI or complex rehabilitation settings
* Strong ability to prioritise, manage, and coordinate care in a fast-paced, complex clinical environment
* Experience providing clinical supervision, education, and support to clinicians and students
* Demonstrated involvement in quality improvement or service development 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.
About Us
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands and the Scenic Rim. We operate five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty and state-wide healthcare services. We are renowned for teaching and research excellence.
We are truly dedicated people who care about our community. We come to work to make a difference. We save lives, changes lives and make the world a better place. We overcome the many challenges that come our way by going above and beyond and achieve the best possible outcomes by working together. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring.
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 ourpeople and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are
better together
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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.