Health Promotion Officer

1 week ago

Geelong, Australia Correct Care Australasia Full time

Unique environment with a real opportunity to make a difference.
- Nurse-led model of primary healthcare offering significant autonomy.
- Permanent Full-time Position Available.

**About Us**
Correct Care Australasia is Australia's largest outsourced correctional healthcare provider. Operating across all of Victoria's 14 publicly managed prisons and one private prison, Correct Care provides primary healthcare services to in excess of 5,000 prisoners through a diverse and dispersed workforce of healthcare professionals across metropolitan and rural Victoria.

Correctional settings provide a unique opportunity to address a range of health issues and to meet the health needs of a population that is normally hard to reach.

**The Role**
We have an exciting opportunity for a
**Full-time Health Promotions Officer to join our primary care team at Karreenga Correctional Centre to work with this vulnerable patient cohort within a recovery-based model.**

**Full-time position.**

Essential experience and attributes include the following
**(selection criteria)**:

- Tertiary Qualification in Health Promotion, Public Health or another suitable qualification
- Demonstrated experience in delivering health promotion programs or projects including reporting and evaluation.
- Demonstrates evidence based practice with an understanding of the social model of health
- Demonstrated knowledge of professional standards and legal and ethical requirements
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary environment
- Awareness of chronic health care conditions
- Compliance with all requirements to work in custodial/correctional health environments as mandated by applicable State and Commonwealth public health laws or orders (however
described), including mandatory vaccination directions (however described), including but not limited to directions relating to COVID-19.
- Current driver’s licence.

**Why Correct Care?**
Our recent staff survey highlighted some of the reasons we come to work every day:

- To be non-judgmental, delivering equal care to all
- Working with a great team
- Having adequate resources to do the job well
- To be able to provide care to a vulnerable population
- Working in a custodial environment which is interesting and challenging

**To Apply**
If you would like to have an initial confidential discussion, please contact our Health Services Manager, Nancy Martuccio on (03) 5285 0049.
- Applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including booster dose) and successfully undergo a police check and a working with children check._
- Correct Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer_
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