Exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to join a new initiative with Wunan Health and Wellbeing Centre
Location: Kununurra, East Kimberley, WA
Employment Type: Full-time (8-month contract, with potential for extension)
We’re seeking an experienced Social Worker to join Wunan Health and Wellbeing and be part of our growing multidisciplinary team working together to strengthen access to holistic, culturally responsive and coordinated care.
About Wunan Health
Wunan Health and Wellbeing Centre is a purpose-driven social enterprise committed to supporting the health and wellbeing needs of all our community. Our primary health care services include an accredited private GP clinic, integrated with community services in youth mental health (headspace), disability advocacy and our new residential AOD withdrawal service (KWIC). We are proudly owned by the Wunan Foundation, an Aboriginal-led NFP organisation working to drive positive change and opportunity in the East Kimberley of WA.
Why join us?
About the role
As a key member of our Allied Health team, you will play a pivotal role in supporting people living with chronic conditions to access integrated, wrap-around health and social services. You’ll work collaboratively with GPs, nurses, Aboriginal Health Practitioners, allied health assistants and other health professionals to ensure individuals experience coordinated, seamless care across programs and services.
Living in Kununurra on Miriwoong Country
Live and work on beautiful Miriwoong Country where each day offers an abundance of opportunities to connect with community and nature. Kununurra is a vibrant, community-minded and welcoming town surrounded by gorges and waterfalls, vast and diverse Kimberley landscapes and rare and unique wildlife. Nestled between Lake Kununurra, Mirima National Park and the Ord Irrigation Scheme, the region offer a unique, relaxed lifestyle with opportunities abound for camping, fishing, water sports, hiking, and creative pursuits.
About you
You’re an experienced Social Worker who thrives in a collaborative environment and believes in inclusive, responsive and strengths-based care. You’ll bring experience working in complex systems and a deep understanding of how health, culture and social determinants shape people’s health, wellbeing and healing.
We recognize the importance of Aboriginal leadership, local knowledge, and cultural expertise in driving local solutions and positive change. Aboriginal people, or those with a strong connection to community, are strongly encouraged to apply. This is a highly desirable criterion for the role.
Apply directly via SEEK by submitting your CV and cover letter addressing the selection criteria found in the
All applicants MUST have full working rights in Australia.
We reserve the right to fill the position prior to the closing date. Early applications are encouraged (no agency or third-party applications please).
Want to know more?
Contact Katy Villafana, Allied Health Administration
📞 (08) 9168 1001| ✉️ katy.villafana@wunan.org.au
Closing date: 12 June 2026
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.
