The Aboriginal Health Practitioner (AHP) – Chronic Conditions is a vital member of Wunan Health’s’ multidisciplinary team (MDT), providing culturally safe, person-centred care for Aboriginal individuals and families in the prevention and management of chronic and complex health conditions.
Working under the clinical supervision of the Chronic Conditions Nurse (CCN); the AHP delivers clinical care and contributes to the coordination, case-management, service navigation and education to equip people with the skills, confidence, and supports needed for day-to-day living with a chronic condition.
This position works closely with the Workforce Cultural Safety Coordinator and AHA, to identifying and address barriers to culturally safe access to allied health services in Kununurra; and provides cultural guidance to ensures all aspects of the program are responsive to Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
