Karen Community Engagement Project Worker

2 weeks ago

Bendigo, Australia Bendigo Community Health Services Full time

Refugee and Cultural Diversity team

Karen Community Engagement Project Worker
76 hours per fortnight (1.0 FTE)

Fixed Term to June 30, 2025

The Position
This role aims to understand community needs, it works across multiple projects to build
health information, service literacy and safe living.
The Team’s focus is to undertake community and stakeholder consultation, identify unmet
needs and to codesign culturally safe easily understood information sessions and resources
in language. The community cohort are former refugees, asylum seekers and migrant
community with low English proficiency.

About BCHS
Bendigo Community Health Services has cared for the health and wellbeing of the Bendigo
community for 50 years. We employ more than 280 people across a broad range of services.

The success of BCHS starts with our staff, who have a high level of professionalism and
dedication, allowing us to deliver quality services for the community, with a particular focus
on vulnerable people.
- Added benefits of working with BCHS include:

- Salary packaging
- Purchasing leave
- Study assistance
- Training programs
- Novated leasing

Key Selection Criteria

Essential
1. An ability to write, read, and speak in English and Karen languages.
2. An interest to learn about capacity building, community needs analysis, program design

and evaluation, and improving health and wellbeing.
3. An interest in building physical and mental health, wellbeing and literacy.
4. Demonstrated communication skills and community engagement.
5. Demonstrated understanding of the refugee experience (lived refugee experience

preferred.)
6. Demonstrated ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
7. Good understanding on use of Outlook, Microsoft programs including Word.

For further information about the position contact Kay Graves on 0409 300 569

abilities.

Applications will be acknowledged upon receipt. Applicants are requested to contact Human Resources
on telephone 5406 1227 if an automatic acknowledgement has not been received.

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