Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health & Community Services (Winnunga AHCS) is Canberra’s only Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service. Located in the heart of Canberra, we deliver trusted, holistic healthcare to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the ACT and surrounding regions. This is an Identified role as Winnunga considers that being Aboriginal or a Torres Strait Islander is a genuine occupational requirement for this position under s 42 of the Discrimination Act 1991 (ACT).
This exceptionally professional and committed staff member will be responsible for the following tasks:
• Demonstrate and promote culturally safe practices during all client visits and program activities.
• Share cultural knowledge and provide guidance to support non-Indigenous team members in their work.
• Work collaboratively within the home visiting team to provide strengths-based support for clients with complex needs, helping them identify goals and develop strategies aligned with family and cultural values.
• Build and maintain respectful, trusting relationships with clients.
• Actively participate in ongoing program education, reflective supervision, team and program meetings.
• Support cultural connection and social and emotional wellbeing through the planning and facilitation of group sessions and engage in strong collaborative partnerships with other Winnunga AHCS teams and external stakeholders.
• Support program delivery through timely and accurate administrative tasks including client documentation, reporting and scheduling to enable effective client care.
We are looking for exceptionally empathetic and resilient person who:
• has full working rights in Australia
• identifies as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (with a Confirmation of Aboriginality or ability to obtain one)
• demonstrates a strengths-based, client-centred approach
• applies culturally safe practices and works respectfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients and communities
• can work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical staff
• has strong communication, interpersonal, organisation and computer skills
• is committed to ongoing learning, culturally safe practices and teamwork
• preferably has experience supporting Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander families with complex needs in community, education or health settings
• holds a current driver’s license
If this sounds like you and you have a strong desire to directly contribute to closing the health gap for First Nations people, we can offer
• Salary packaging benefits to increase your take-home pay
• Free parking on our premises for a stress-free commute; and
• Free gym membership
• No weekend or after-hours work
While this role is being offered initially as a 12 month contract, there is a high likelihood it will transition to an ongoing/permanent position for the right candidate.
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.
