Social Worker - Advanced

Join Darling Downs Health as an Advanced Social Worker in Toowoomba, supporting people experiencing complex mental health challenges. Use your specialist expertise to influence care, mentor others, and lead meaningful service improvements while building strong community connections and helping people achieve better outcomes across their recovery journey.

What your day could look like

As an Advanced Social Worker, you'll help people experiencing complex mental health challenges build stronger pathways to recovery. Working across clinical care, service development and team support, you'll influence outcomes that benefit individuals, families and the wider community.

• Provide specialist social work expertise that supports recovery, wellbeing and person-centred care.
• Collaborate with consumers, carers, multidisciplinary teams and community partners to achieve positive, coordinated outcomes.
• Drive improvements that strengthen service quality, enhance practice standards and support innovation.
• Guide and develop colleagues, students and emerging practitioners through coaching, supervision and shared learning.

Let's talk about you!

You're an experienced social worker who combines clinical expertise with empathy, confidence and a genuine commitment to helping others. You thrive when navigating complexity, building trusted relationships and creating meaningful change. Whether supporting a person through a difficult stage of their recovery or helping a team grow stronger, you bring a values-driven approach and a focus on achieving the best possible outcomes.

Here's what will help you thrive in this role:

• Eligibility for membership, or current membership, with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
• Advanced experience delivering evidence-based social work services within mental health settings.
• Highly developed communication, consultation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead improvement initiatives and support professional development in others.

You'll stand out if you bring experience in recovery-focused, multicultural or community-based mental health services, and/or involvement in education, research or workforce development.

Above all, you'll bring Compassion, Integrity, Dignity, Innovation and Courage to your work, helping improve lives across the Darling Downs community.

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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