🌟 Lead the Way in Cultural Care. Your chance to influence and improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes across Torres and Cape HHS!

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🌿 Permanent Full Time Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner!

📍 Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service – Cairns

💬 Let's start with a yarn! Emma Pickering, 0448 229 760, would love to hear your story and answer any questions you may have about the role.

Tell me more... Join our Public Health Unit, delivering culturally safe, community-focused care across key health programs. In this role, you'll focus on Rheumatic Heart Disease and Skin Health, managing, promoting, and reporting on program deliverables to make a real difference in Cairns communities. 

Professional and personal motivators!

As an Indigenous Health Worker, your advocacy is vital for ensuring Torres and Cape patients receive effective, culturally safe healthcare.

Identified Role: Under Section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld), it is a genuine occupational requirement for the incumbent to be Indigenous to the Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Community.
–    An Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person is a person who: 
o    identifies as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person; and either
o    is of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent; or
o    is accepted as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person by the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community in which he or she lives.

You'll work in diverse and supportive environments that offer attractive lifestyle opportunities and experiences and enable you to make a valuable contribution in small communities. These communities will help you grow, connect, learn and create life-defining experiences that will shape who you are as a health professional and a person.

💫Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Base salary comprising between $98,555.00 - $116,189.00 per annum – you may be eligible for additional benefits – refer to Workplace benefits | Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service
• Competitive salary packaging: Generous employer superannuation contribution of 12.75% and salary packaging options Salary and benefits | Careers (health.qld.gov.au)
• Generous leave entitlements including 17.5% loading on annual leave

🐠🌺Life in Cairns means you will be able to enjoy: 

• Immersing yourself in nature, from the outback to tropical rainforests, coral reefs and extraordinary landscapes.
• Choose Cairns for your next career move
• Short commute to work, allowing greater work/life balance
• Rich Indigenous Culture
• Imagine yourself here? Find out about Torres and Cape HHSand the Torres Strait and Cooktown and Cape York regions on the Tropical North Queensland website.
• Follow us - Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

Discover more by reading the role description attached.

Torres and Cape HHS Values - Courage | Accountability | Respect | Engage

🖱️ Apply now via the Smart Jobs and Careers website — and discover a career that feels like home.

Please no unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Please download the Role Description for your future reference. Please do NOT upload zipped files, pdfs created through MS Word 2007, tagged pdfs or protected documents. Accepted files: gif, bmp, png, rtf, txt, doc and docx.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 1 TCHHS Applicant Information Pack (PDF)
  
  2 Map Info (PDF)
  
  TC667322_Job description (PDF)