Professional Lead Social Work – Making Early Years Count
- Part-time opportunity | Join our Clinical Leadership & Advisory Team
- Make a meaningful difference in the lives of children 0-13 and their families
- NFP Salary Packaging, PD Budget, Supportive Leadership plus many more benefits
BUSHkids is a not-for-profit organisation that has been at the heart of transforming lives of regional children across Queensland for 90 years. Our highly dedicated teams and volunteers are all driven by a shared vision that all children should have access to free allied health services regardless of where they live.
As our part-time Professional Lead Social Work, you will be a key member of the BUSHkids Clinical Leadership and Professional Advisory teams, providing professional leadership, specialist expertise, and clinical guidance to strengthen safe, ethical, and evidence-informed social work practice across the organisation. You will play a critical role in supporting high-quality services for children and families, leading organisational approaches to safeguarding, child protection, domestic and family violence, trauma-informed practice, risk assessment, and the management of complex clinical and safeguarding practices.
The position can be based from our Brisbane (Toowong), Maroochydore or Caloundra service locations.
BUSHkids Benefits – What You Can Expect
At BUSHkids, you will be part of a supportive organisation committed to empowering families, children, and regional communities.
- An organisation that highly values the Social Work discipline within our clinical service delivery
- Highly supportive and friendly clinical staff, clinical leadership, allied health and professional advisory teams.
- Annual Professional Development budget available for all staff
- Up to 5 days Professional Development Leave plus 2 days PD Travel Leave (pro-rata part-time)
- Additional 3 gifted paid leave days over Christmas (pro-rata part-time)
- Base salary of $115,788 (full-time equivalent) plus superannuation and portable long service leave. The position will be pro-rata for part-time (equivalent to $59.59 per hour).
- Salary packaging benefits of up to $18,550 annually, increasing take-home pay by up to $5,935
- Employee wellbeing support, resources, and professional guidance to help you thrive
- We offer 14 weeks BUSHkids funded paid parental leave
About You
- Tertiary qualification in Social Work and current AASW membership
- Demonstrated experience working with children, young people, and families using family-centred, trauma-informed, and strengths-based approaches
- Strong clinical skills in assessment, risk management, safeguarding, child protection, and domestic and family violence
- Sound knowledge of relevant legislation, mandatory reporting obligations, and ethical practice frameworks
- Experience providing professional supervision, clinical consultation, and support for complex or high-risk cases
- Excellent relationship-building, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Able to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams and provide professional leadership and advice
- Committed to continuous learning, professional development, and practice improvement
- Contribute to organisational on-call, consultation, or escalation processes relating to clinical risk and safeguarding
- Alignment with BUSHkids core values – Child-Focused and Family Centred, Collaborative and Accountable
- Valid Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Clearance (or ability to obtain before commencement)
- Current C Class Drivers’ Licence
- Evidence of Hepatitis B vaccination status
INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR TEAM? APPLY NOW!
Please include your resume and cover letter as part of your application. You can view a full Position Description (371kb) here for more details.
Applications will be shortlisted and progressed as received with interviews scheduled soon after final close on Sunday 21st June so early applications are strongly encouraged. Please indicate the part-time hour arrangement you are seeking.
Enquiries can be directed to Michelle Clarke, Recruitment Coordinator on (07) 3518 7952 or email [email protected]
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Applications received directly from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
