Join Darling Downs Health as a Welfare Officer at Toowoomba Hospital and make a real difference in the lives of cancer patients and their families. You'll play a vital role in providing support, navigating welfare services, and ensuring access to essential resources, all while working within a compassionate and collaborative team. Sound like you? Apply today!
We are incentivising health workers to move to Darling Downs Health, to take up a job in regional and remote Queensland.
What Your Day Will Look Like: You'll start by connecting with patients and families, understanding their unique needs and challenges. Throughout the day, you'll navigate a variety of welfare-related matters—offering guidance on financial aid, transport options, and accommodation resources. Engaging with a multidisciplinary team, you'll collaborate with external agencies to build strong referral pathways, ensuring your clients receive the best possible support. Your proactive approach will be essential as you participate in quality improvement initiatives, contribute to resource development, and take part in professional learning, all while embodying the values of Darling Downs Health. Each interaction will be a chance to empower and uplift those facing the challenges of cancer care, making every day impactful.
Let's talk about you! Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up. Why Us? Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens. We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits:Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlementsA diverse work cultureCareer developmentProfessional development opportunitiesEducation opportunities, Study and ResearchPaid parental leaveEmployee Assistance Program (EAP)Discounted Private Health InsuranceFitness PassportWork-Life Balance, Variety and FlexibilityGenerous Salary Sacrificing Next step: Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
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