Role details

The Specialist Palliative Care Service at the Mackay Base Hospital is seeking applications for a Bereavement Coordinator (Senior Psychologist or Senior Social Worker) to join their team on a permanent basis.

How to apply and for mandatory requirements regarding this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Your opportunity

To deliver high level comprehensive bereavement services, and high-level Social Work/Psychology clinical skills and leadership to provide effective and efficient personalised grief and bereavement care to patients and their families engaged with the Specialist Palliative Care Service multi-disciplinary team. Clinical service provision will to patients, their families/carers and other key stakeholders will be via home visits, outpatient appointments, inpatient appointments and telehealth.

About the Team

The Mackay Hospital and Health Service Specialist Palliative Care Service aims to improve the quality of life for patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-limiting illness. This can be achieved through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and treatment of pain and other problems, in the physical, psychosocial and spiritual domains. The Specialist Palliative Care Service seeks to:

• Provide holistic patient-centred care for patients with life-limiting illness across the care continuum.
• Provide specialist palliative care for patients with life-limiting illness which are needs-based regardless of diagnosis or prognosis.
• Address the specialist palliative care needs of patients and their families for the duration of their illness trajectory.
• Provide multidisciplinary care in a reliable and efficient manner.

About our Hospital and Health Service

Mackay Hospital and Health Service ( https://www.mackay.health.qld.gov.au/ )has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,700 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.

Some of our great benefits on offer

• Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements
• A diverse work culture
• Career development
• Professional development opportunities
• Education opportunities, Study and Research
• Paid parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounted Private Health Insurance
• Fitness Passport

Workforce attraction incentive scheme

You may be eligible to receive the Incentive Scheme 1, the scheme is available to health workers that relocate from interstate or international to come work within our team may receive up to $20,000 in incentive payments under the Queensland Health Workforce Attraction Incentive Scheme (conditions apply). ( https://www.careers.health.qld.gov.au/working-for-us/workforce-attraction-incentive-scheme )