Health and Wellbeing Worker - Caboolture

Institute for Urban Indigenous Health Ltd; Caboolture; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary sacrifice

12% Super contribution

Job summary

Institute for Urban Indigenous Health Ltd is seeking a Health Wellbeing Worker in Caboolture, QLD. The role acts as a familiar face and navigator for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients, guiding access to culturally responsive holistic primary health care within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities include welcoming clients, providing health information, supporting goal setting, and implementing care plans to improve health outcomes for the community IUIH serves.

Qualifications

• Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander status is a genuine occupational requirement.
• Current Criminal History Check.
• Current C Class Driver's Licence (QLD).
• Current Working with Children’s Check (QLD Blue Card).
• Current CPR Certificate.

Responsibilities

• Welcoming, empowering, and connecting clients and families to and back into the service.
• Providing health and social determinant information and education to clients and families to promote autonomy and choice.
• Work with clients and families in goal setting and prioritisation of health and social needs.
• Implementing plans, based on goal setting, in collaboration with the core multidisciplinary team.

Job description

Join an Organisation dedicated to Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health To perform this role, it is essential that the incumbent is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. It is therefore a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991

About us

Moreton ATSICHS operates a growing network of healthcare clinics for local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our model of care provides holistic health and wellbeing services to support our Community across their lifespan. We bring together primary care, allied health, dental, mental health and wellbeing, maternity and early childhood, disability services, specialist services, and aged care as one team focused on clients’ individual needs and goals. We are an integrated team working together to improve the health and wellbeing of our Community. Our network is growing across Caboolture, Morayfield, Strathpine, Deception Bay, and Margate – now there’s an opportunity for you to be part of a great team making a real difference in people’s lives.

About the role

As Health Wellbeing Worker, your role is the familiar face, connector point, and navigator for which Mob can ask for help and guidance in their autonomous access and use of culturally responsive holistic primary health care. Through their close connection with clients, families, and community; working alongside their Pod and using all clinic roles and additional services to their license, the HWW will achieve continuity of care and improving the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through:

• Welcoming, empowering, and connecting clients and families to (and back into) the service.
• Providing health and social determinant information and education to clients and families which promotes autonomy and choice.
• Work alongside clients and families in their goal setting and prioritisation of health and social needs.
• Implementing plans, based on goal setting, in collaboration with the core multidisciplinary team.

About you

To perform this role, it is essential that the incumbent is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. It is therefore a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991

• Current Criminal History Check.
• Current C Class Drivers Licence (QLD).
• Current Working with Children’s Check (QLD Blue Card).
• Current CPR Certificate.

What we offer

• At IUIH we recognise that we operate in a diverse community and welcome and encourage applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTIQ+ community, veterans, refugees, and people with disability.
• At IUIH ‘Our Collectivity is Our Strength’.
• Work as a valued member of a multi-disciplinary team to improve the health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients.
• We are a diverse and inclusive workplace that invites applications from all people.
• Be part of Australia’s largest community controlled Aboriginal Health Service.
• Access to “Growing Our Own Opportunities” through in-house training and programs.
• Weekly Staff Wellness activities and all staff ‘Gather and Grow’ yarns and award ceremonies.
• Competitive salary plus salary sacrifices of $15,899 12% Super contribution.
• To find out more about our services, Community, and work life, visit moretonatsichs.org.au.
• Demonstrated commitment to creating culturally safe environments where children and young people are respected, heard, and protected against harm.
• IUIH is a Community Controlled Health Service (CCHS) that leads the planning, development and delivery of health, family wellbeing and social support services to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population of South East Queensland.
• IUIH is working with our Member CCHSs to improve the health, wellbeing and economic independence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in South East Queensland, the largest and fastest growing Indigenous population in Australia.