Bring your experience to a role where your work truly matters. As a Senior Social Worker with Darling Downs Health in Toowoomba, you'll support patients and families through complex moments, lead meaningful practice, and help shape services that strengthen our community across the care journey.
What Your Day Could Look Like
As a Senior Social Worker, you'll play a key role in delivering compassionate, evidence‐based care across Darling Downs Health. Working with patients, families and multidisciplinary teams, you'll help navigate complex situations and contribute to care that is safe, respectful and connected.
Every Day, You'll Contribute By
* Supporting patients and families through complex clinical and psychosocial needs with skilled, thoughtful care
* Collaborating with health professionals and external partners to coordinate care and improve outcomes
* Leading service improvements that strengthen social work practice across the continuum of care
* Supporting the growth of others through supervision, mentoring and shared learning
Let's talk about you!
You're a confident and compassionate social worker who brings clarity, empathy and sound judgement to complex situations. You value strong relationships, act with integrity, and take pride in helping people feel heard, supported and respected. You're motivated by improving care, guiding others, and contributing to a service that truly values its community.
Here's What Will Help You Thrive In This Role
* Eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
* Experience delivering social work services in complex clinical or hospital settings
* Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams
* A commitment to evidence‐based practice, learning and quality improvement
You'll stand out if you bring postgraduate study and/or experience supporting teams in regional or diverse environments.
Above all, you'll live the Darling Downs Health values of compassion, integrity, dignity, innovation and courage — and use them to make a meaningful difference every day.
Why Join Darling Downs Health?
At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless.
Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.
Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region.
Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:
* Maximise your take‐home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements
* Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety
* Access professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathways
* Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and collaboration.
* Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.
For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits
Your future is here. Where are you?
If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.
Click "Apply Now" to submit your application and upload the requested documents.
Find out more about us!
Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:
www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns
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