Bicultural Worker Deafness and Mental Health

Your new role:

As a vital member of the Deafness and Mental Health Statewide Consultation Liaison Service, you will provide linguistic and cultural expertise to enhance service delivery and support mental health initiatives.

• Deliver cultural awareness training and education to mental health services, sharing insights from lived Deaf culture experiences.
• Lead and support projects focused on culturally and linguistically diverse and disability improvement initiatives within the Deafness and Mental Health Service.
• Develop and implement project action plans to promote cultural education, discrimination awareness, and inclusive service delivery in collaboration with Queensland Health clinical and non-clinical teams.

This is an identified vacancy with a genuine occupational requirement for the position to be filled by a candidate indigenous to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Community. Candidates not meeting this criteria will not be considered.

About you:

You are passionate about fostering equity and inclusion within mental health services for Deaf and hard of hearing individuals.

• Proven experience in delivering cultural awareness training and education, ideally within health or community services.
• Strong understanding of Deaf culture, mental health, and the unique challenges faced by Deaf and hard of hearing consumers.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders and communities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects, develop policies, and contribute to strategic initiatives in a multidisciplinary environment.

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together.