Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner
3 weeks ago
Are you an experienced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner who brings cultural knowledge, clinical skill, and community connection to your work? Join Darling Downs Health in Toowoomba and help deliver meaningful, culturally safe care that supports better health outcomes for your mob. Your voice, values, and expertise will be respected and make a real impact. Strong Culture, Strong Youth, Our Legacy, Our Future
What Your Day Will Look Like….
You'll work closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide hands-on care, health education, and support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients and families. Whether you're assessing a client's health needs, coordinating care plans, or helping someone navigate the health system, your work will be grounded in cultural respect and community connection. You'll also play a key role in delivering health promotion programs, engaging with community members, and supporting your colleagues to build cultural competence. Every task you take on contributes to a bigger purpose—improving health outcomes and strengthening trust in healthcare services.
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.
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 entitlements
- A diverse work culture
- Career development
- Professional development opportunities
- Education opportunities, Study and Research
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
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