Community Outreach Worker

**Title**:Community Outreach Worker - Aboriginal Health Team**:

- Location: Lilydale, VIC, AU, 3140- Job Posting Date: 30 Oct 2024Do you work for Eastern Health currently? If so, please log in to Eastern Health Careers Employee Login using your network login details to see the full range of jobs available to you

**COMMUNITY OUTREACH WORKER - ABORIGINAL HEALTH TEAM**
- Full time with 5 weeks’ annual leave | Supportive team environment
- Based at Healesville | Work across Eastern Health | Be valued for what you do
- The Aboriginal Health Team provide holistic health and social services throughout the eastern and outer eastern suburbs

**Eastern Health**
Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest public health services. We provide a range of emergency, surgical, medical and general healthcare services and have a proud history of serving a diverse community.
Our Healthier Together promise underpins our strategic plan - which is to serve the growing and changing needs of our community and to care about and develop our staff. We believe our people make the difference.

**About the role**
The Aboriginal Health Team is a community-based health service located in Healesville available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families living anywhere in Eastern Health’s catchment. The service adopts a holistic approach in line with cultural best-practice, and provides a broad range of services which are available both on-site in Healesville and through home visits and outreach.

**About you**
To be successful in this role you will possess:

- Relevant community services qualification
- Ability to communicate and build connections with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- Well developed interpersonal skills, including an ability to communicate effectively with other staff, agencies and community
- Ability to practice both autonomously and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to maintain records of tasks and activities taken on a daily basis
- A strong commitment to high quality care
- The ability to work as part of a diverse team
- Excellent communication and organisational skills

Vaccination against infectious disease is a mandatory requirement of this role. An offer of employment is conditional on you providing evidence that you are currently vaccinated against COVID-19 with booster & Influenza, prior to commencing employment.

**What we offer**

Eastern Health offers a variety of fantastic Employee Benefits, view the extensive range here
- Diverse and engaging career opportunities
- Friendly & supportive team
- Flexible working hours
- Salary packaging options
- Career progression in our teaching hospitals

**Next Steps**

**Good to know**:

- We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability - within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
- We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
- As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
- Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
- Advertising may end before the closing date.

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Contact Person: Sarah Gales

Contact Number: 59571100

Job Posting End Date: 08.12.2024

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