Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health Worker
Queensland Government
Date: 19 hours ago
City: Brisbane, Queensland
Contract type: Full time
About Us
Children's Health Queensland is a specialist statewide hospital and health service dedicated to caring for children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
We are committed to collaborating with all of our healthcare partners, most importantly families, to ensure we consistently deliver safe, high-quality patient and family-centred care.
A recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, education and research, Children's Health Queensland delivers a full range of clinical services, tertiary level care and health promotion programs.
We provide an integrated network of services through:
The Queensland Children's Hospital
The Child and Youth Community Health Service
The Child and Youth Mental Health Service
Statewide services and programs, including specialist outreach and telehealth services
Partnerships with other hospital and health services and non-government organisations
Children's Health Queensland provides services from key locations in the Brisbane metropolitan area and works with the 15 other hospital and health services as well as NGOs and charity partners in Queensland to deliver an integrated network of healthcare services and support across the state.
Your Opportunity:
The role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker is to collaboratively deliver culturally appropriate mental health support within their community and HHS catchment to address the unique social and emotional wellbeing needs arising from historical trauma, cultural disconnection and social determinants of health.
The position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker is to:
Enhance, integrate and promote a culturally sensitive client focused approach to engaging and embedding social and emotional wellbeing principles of care into CHQ.
Actively engage, support and encourage relationships with key stakeholders and local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations to improve access to service provision and coordination of complex care consumers.
Collaboratively advocate for the rights and needs of children and families and deliver complex mental health support, co-case management of clinical care and co-ordination.
What CHQ HHS can offer
Apart from contributing to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, you will also benefit from a competitive remuneration package and a working environment which embraces professional development, builds capabilities and supports staff to maximise their health and wellbeing. Additional benefits include:
Up to 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
5% annual leave loading
Salary packaging
Employee Assistance Program
Work/life balance, variety and flexibility
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
Some roles within Queensland Health are designated as 'Vaccination Preventable Disease (VPD) risk roles'. A VPD risk role is a role in which the incumbent may be exposed to the risk of acquisition and/or transmission of a VPD. Please refer to the attached Role Description for more information and what requirements may exist.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
Children's Health Queensland is a specialist statewide hospital and health service dedicated to caring for children and young people from across Queensland and northern New South Wales.
We are committed to collaborating with all of our healthcare partners, most importantly families, to ensure we consistently deliver safe, high-quality patient and family-centred care.
A recognised leader in paediatric healthcare, education and research, Children's Health Queensland delivers a full range of clinical services, tertiary level care and health promotion programs.
We provide an integrated network of services through:
The Queensland Children's Hospital
The Child and Youth Community Health Service
The Child and Youth Mental Health Service
Statewide services and programs, including specialist outreach and telehealth services
Partnerships with other hospital and health services and non-government organisations
Children's Health Queensland provides services from key locations in the Brisbane metropolitan area and works with the 15 other hospital and health services as well as NGOs and charity partners in Queensland to deliver an integrated network of healthcare services and support across the state.
Your Opportunity:
The role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker is to collaboratively deliver culturally appropriate mental health support within their community and HHS catchment to address the unique social and emotional wellbeing needs arising from historical trauma, cultural disconnection and social determinants of health.
The position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker is to:
Enhance, integrate and promote a culturally sensitive client focused approach to engaging and embedding social and emotional wellbeing principles of care into CHQ.
Actively engage, support and encourage relationships with key stakeholders and local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations to improve access to service provision and coordination of complex care consumers.
Collaboratively advocate for the rights and needs of children and families and deliver complex mental health support, co-case management of clinical care and co-ordination.
What CHQ HHS can offer
Apart from contributing to the development of Australia's best paediatric health service, you will also benefit from a competitive remuneration package and a working environment which embraces professional development, builds capabilities and supports staff to maximise their health and wellbeing. Additional benefits include:
Up to 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
5% annual leave loading
Salary packaging
Employee Assistance Program
Work/life balance, variety and flexibility
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at CHQ HHS here.
Some roles within Queensland Health are designated as 'Vaccination Preventable Disease (VPD) risk roles'. A VPD risk role is a role in which the incumbent may be exposed to the risk of acquisition and/or transmission of a VPD. Please refer to the attached Role Description for more information and what requirements may exist.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
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