Public Health Officer

5 days ago

Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
- Manage allocated workloads to deliver medical entomology services within the Metro South Public Health Unit including field and laboratory activities as per described protocols, data entry and reporting, emergency intervention and reporting under professional guidance of senior Medical Entomology staff.
- Assist in delivery of mosquito monitoring programs (e.g., ovitrap programs), with a focus on the quality, responsiveness, and consistency of data processes (maps and spreadsheets).
- Build and maintain effective partnerships with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Provide accurate and timely advice and support to senior staff, partners, and other stakeholders, including the preparation of correspondence and reports.
- Participate in routine and emergency mosquito surveillance and management activities as required, including compliance with requirements of the Public Health Act 2005 (PHA) as guiding legislation for mosquito control activities. This position will hold an authority under PHA and be required to work under this at times.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and remain, vaccinated against COVID-19 Health Employment Directive No. 12/21and Queensland Health Human Resources Policy B70.

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