Multicultural Health Project Officer

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Location**: Nepean Hospital
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ611418
**Applications Close**: 20/10/2025
**Position Classification & Renumeration**: Dependent on Qualifications:
Health Education Officer Non-Graduate - $62.486.00 - $90,360.00 per annum
Health Education Officer Graduate - $71,467.00 - $114,187.00 per annum

With **CORE**Values of **C**ollaboration, **O**penness, **R**espect and **E**mpowerment, working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.

**About Us**
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.

Population Health Division is responsible for addressing primary and secondary disease prevention within the local community through Health Promotion, HIV and Related Programs Multicultural Health. Our work is delivered through individual service delivery. Population health promotes programs and initiates capacity building to members of priority populations on priority issues.

Are you passionate about health equity and working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities? We’re looking for a Multicultural Health Project Officer to join our team and help ensure accessible, appropriate health services are available for CALD communities across the Nepean Blue Mountains region.

In this role, you’ll work in partnership with health service providers and CALD communities, with a strong focus on new and emerging migrant and refugee populations. You’ll lead the development and implementation of evidence based strategies to improve health outcomes, provide timely and accurate advice to service planners and Population Health colleagues, and identify priority health needs and access issues. You’ll also support clinical services, management and frontline staff by building strong partnerships and network structures that promote access, equity and safety for CALD patients. Working closely with the Multicultural Health and Priority Populations Team, you’ll contribute to innovative partnership projects that build community capacity and health literacy. Your work will help shape culturally appropriate models of service delivery using a quality improvement framework.

**Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees**
- Accrued Day Off (ADO) for full time employees
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Novated Leasing
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.

**What you will bring to the role**
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field, such as health promotion, population health, or education and/or equivalent demonstrated experience along with experience working with CALD and/or refugee populations.
- Demonstrated experience addressing health disparities, health literacy, and access and equity issues affecting people from CALD backgrounds, underpinned by sound knowledge of relevant policies, plans, and legislation.
- Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills and computer literacy; high level presentation and report writing skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in health, social or behavioural sciences research methodology.
- Demonstrated experience in project management skills, including project planning and evaluation skills.
- Demonstrated experience in community consultation, needs assessment and community development work with CALD communities, including the ability to influence, motivate and mobilise interest, to create change in settings that may be resistant to change.
- Demonstrated experience in community consultation, needs assessment and community development work with CALD communities, including the ability to influence, motivate and mobilise interest, to create change in settings that may be resistant to change.
- Current Driver’s Licence and willingness to use for work purpose travel

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