Social Worker

Mercy Community

📍Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Posted May 22, 2026
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Job Overview

Position

Social Worker

Company

Mercy Community

Location

Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4416790835

Job Description

About the role

Mercy Community Services are on the lookout for a
Social Worker
on a
Permanent Full- Time basis
to join our team as soon as possible. Your role will be based in
Rockhampton
and an excited growing team helping our community.

*The role of the Social Worker is to deliver social work services to consumers in the community under the direct and indirect supervision of the Allied Health Clinical Lead. Working with clients in the community, you will be delivering sound social work services including assessments, investigations and treatment planning. You will join an excited, growing team in Rockhampton and expanding in Yeppoon. Develop your career path with Mercy Community Services.*

*Sponsorship available for the right candidate!*

Your role involves but not limited to:

  • Provide excellent, evidence based social work interventions to our clients and their families or carers including comprehensive/psychosocial assessment, advocacy, referrals, counselling and care plans

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of treatment plans and modify as required

  • Participate in care conferences and liaise with other health care professionals as needed

  • Maximize client treatment & clinical outcomes

  • Educate the general public and community workers in relation to our services and maintain waitlists

About you

  • Tertiary qualifications in Social Work and the relevant registration

  • Experience in the provision of social work services with adults/elderly favourable

  • Current First Aid & CPR certificate (mandatory)

  • Current Queensland Provisional or above (mandatory)

Why Mercy Community

Mercy Community a Catholic not-for-profit that provides a wide range of services supporting families and young people, people living with a disability and the elderly. All our work is driven by our core values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity & Empowerment.

At Mercy Community, we support our employees to reach for opportunities both within their area of expertise as well as in a new field. Build a career with us and explore the possibilities of moving upwards into leadership roles or discover a new location across our broad geographic footprint.

Being part of the Mercy Community team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:

  • Increase your take home pay through the use of generous salary packaging - up to $18,550 per annum of your salary is available as a tax-free component

  • Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need – saving you up to $144 if you need both cards!

  • Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services including specialised First Nations counsellors

  • Free annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements

  • Employee referral bonus incentive

  • Cash out or purchase annual leave and to take advantage of extra leave entitlements

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to a range of other career pathways and opportunities across Mercy.

APPLY NOW! Please note we may contact applicants prior to closing date so not delay in applying.

*Mercy Community Services is a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant.*

For any queries, please contact [email protected].

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Interview Prep

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.Can you walk me through your approach to conducting a comprehensive psychosocial assessment and how you use that information to develop an evidence-based care plan?
  • 2.How do you evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment plan, and what steps do you take if a client is not progressing toward their clinical outcomes?
  • 3.Given that this role involves working with adults and the elderly, what specific social work theories or interventions do you find most effective when supporting these demographics in a community setting?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time when you had to advocate for a client's needs to other healthcare professionals or community services to ensure they received the appropriate support.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you had to manage a heavy waitlist or high caseload while ensuring each client received quality care and sound social work interventions.
  • 3.Mercy Community is driven by the values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity, and Empowerment. Can you share an example of how you embodied these values when working with a particularly vulnerable client?
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are attending a care conference with other health professionals, and there is a disagreement regarding the best treatment direction for your client. The proposed direction conflicts with the client's expressed wishes. How do you handle this?
  • 2.You are asked to educate a group of community workers about the social work services available at Mercy Community, but the audience seems disengaged and unaware of how your services differ from other local providers. How do you approach this?

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Psychosocial AssessmentCare Plan DevelopmentEvidence-Based InterventionsAdvocacyCounsellingMultidisciplinary LiaisonAdults and ElderlyAASW RegistrationClinical OutcomesTreatment EvaluationCommunity EducationMercy Community Values

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