PCSWA is dedicated to the advancement and promotion of social work as a central health profession in the provision of palliative, end of life and bereavement care. PCSWA is also committed to enhancing the provision of high quality and holistic person centred, family focused and community-oriented care.

PCSWA represents social workers across Australia, regardless of the setting in which they work. PCSWA members work in specialist palliative care services, hospices and other settings such as hospitals, community and primary health, aged care facilities, correctional facilities, group homes and other government and non-government agencies.

Palliative Care Social Work Australia (PCSWA) acknowledge the traditional custodians and owners of the lands on which we work and live. We acknowledge their ongoing connection to land, sea and community and that the story and spirit of Aboriginal Nations are written in the landscape of this country. We pay respects to Elders, past, present and future for they hold the memories, traditions and values which deepen and enrich the life of our land, communities and our nation.

PCSWA acknowledges the pain and impact of dispossession from land and the interruption to intergenerational inheritance of culture that has impacted access to and provision of palliative care, end of life care and bereavement support.

PCSWA acknowledged the resilience and strengths of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and adopts a position of cultural humility, making a commitment to promoting culturally competent, safe and sensitive practice in end of life care, Sorry business and bereavement care.