Your opportunity:

Social Workers employed through the Student Wellbeing Package role and responsibilities include:

• Using professional knowledge of psychological interventions and treatments to deliver appropriate and tailored therapeutic intervention to support students’ mild to moderate concerns, including:
• Mental health concerns including anxiety, depression.
• Personal relationships
• Stress
• Trauma and crisis.
• Providing support and ensure safety plans for the school context are implemented for students who are self-harming and/or at risk of suicide.
• Applying understanding of the mental health continuum to identify when students require additional mental health support outside of the school context.
• Understanding of the mental health system to provide students who need additional support for their mental health concerns with warm referrals to external agencies.
• Supporting students following a critical incident or emergency, ensuring their wellbeing is monitored and supported.
• With student permission, work with other wellbeing and school staff to ensure strategies developed for the student can be put in place in the classroom and the wider school community.
• Undertake individual and group counselling and therapeutic interventions with students, parents and families to assist them in the mild to moderate mental health needs.

Multiple permanent full-time and part-time positions are available in the Metropolitan Region. Locations include Brisbane North, Brisbane Bayside, Ipswich Region and Brisbane West. Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time 1.0FTE.

What you can expect in return:

• Part-time and full-time options available
• 12.5% superannuation
• Annual leave loading (17.5%)
• 36 ¼ hours a week

This is a PO2 progression position as per the Role Description. The successful applicant will be appointed to the PO2 classification with eligibility for progression to the PO3 once specific criteria have been met or demonstrated. Please note salary rate shown is reflective of PO2 to PO3 classification range.

Mandatory requirements:

• Possession of tertiary qualifications in Social Work and eligibility for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
• When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

How to Apply:

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history).
• Attach a maximum 2-page response outlining your skills and abilities relevant to the role. You can use the ‘your role’ section as a guide. This is your chance to bring your passion and experience into an educational setting to improve the outcomes for Queensland students.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

Contact Name: Donna Lloyd, Regional Manager – Student Wellbeing (07) 3028 8248

Closing Date: Monday, 17 October 2022