Welfare Lead

The position of Welfare Lead will lead a team of welfare workers to provide a high-level, comprehensive welfare service addressing the interrelated practical and psychosocial needs of children, their families and carers within Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service. The service provides targeted, culturally-safe, trauma-informed support to families and carers from across the state during their children’s specialist medical treatment at the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH), either as inpatients or outpatients.

About The Role You will fulfil the accountabilities of this rolein accordance with the CHQ HHS core values and as outlined below.

Technical Services

• Work collaboratively with social workers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure welfare responses are informed by holistic considerations of the child and family's psychosocial circumstances and broader social determinants impacting the child and family's access to healthcare.
• Lead the application of welfare decision-making principles and criteria in daily clinical practice, promoting consistent approaches within the welfare service that build practice confidence across experience levels, align team language and practice, and support clear communication of expectations, roles and responsibilities to families and staff.
• Maintain accurate, timely and confidential records of client assessments, interventions and reports in accordance with medico-legal and organisational requirements.

Communication / Team Participation

• Lead the welfare team, utilising high-level communication and leadership skills to coordinate high quality service delivery and support effective multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Provide strategic advice supporting the planning and development of Social Work and Welfare services, and contribute to broader hospital and statewide initiatives, including Department of Health directives such as the Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme (PTSS).

Leadership

• Provide leadership in service planning, priority setting and data collection to support the delivery of welfare services within the Social Work and Welfare Department.
• Assist the Director of Social Work in preparing reports including annual trust fund report.

Please refer to the Role Description for more information.

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.

Some of the great benefits of working at CHQ HHS Benefits If you're looking for a rewarding career, and you're excited to contribute to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, come and join the team at CHQ and enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive renumeration
• 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 .

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