• Permanent Part-time position 4 days, Hawthorn & various sites
• Collaborative, and highly supported team environment
• Not for Profit with competitive salary, including salary packaging

About Access Health and Community

With a 150-year history and caring at our centre, our mission at Access Health and Community (AccessHC) is to build healthier lives together. We have a dedicated and experienced team of over 400 employees and 200 volunteers operating across 18 locations. Our people are the centre of everything we do and contribute to improving the wellbeing of the community every day

The Opportunity

An exciting ongoing opportunity to join a health promotion team that works in partnership with healthAbility and Link Health and Community to promote a connected, active and healthier community across the Inner East of Melbourne. We do this as the Inner East Health Promotion Partnership (The Partnership) through shared Community Health-Health Promotion (CHHP) planning, action and reporting. We take a place-based approach to changing systems and work across settings where people live, play, work and learn.

About the role

The Health Promotion Practitioner position reports to the Team Leader Health Promotion and is part of the health promotion team. You will work within The Partnership on designated settings-based health promotion systems and projects as outlined in The Partnership’s Annual Action Plan led by the Team Leader and other Partnership managers. You will lead health promotion work in the Victorian Health & Wellbeing Plan priority areas of healthy eating, active living, gender equity and/or tobacco/e-cigarettes.

What you will be doing

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of a required health promotion priority, setting or program area.
• Assist the Team Leader Health Promotion in the planning, delivery and evaluation of The Partnership’s CHHP Annual Action Plan.
• Actively contribute to planning and reporting requirements of funding bodies.
• Partner with agencies inside and external to the health system applying a systemic approach to improving the health of populations.
• Work both independently and collaboratively with a large team of health promotion practitioners, partners and stakeholders.

What you will bring

The skills and experience you will bring to this role as the successful candidate you will have: Key Selection Criteria

• Tertiary qualifications in health promotion, public health, health science, community development or a related discipline.
• Minimum of one years’ experience in a population health role within a community context.
• Eligible for registration as an IUHPE Registered Health Promotion practitioner.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant software applications.

Attributes

• Demonstrated ability to embed equity in your work, change work practices to increase inclusion, apply a gender lens and actively seek input from people with lived experience of diversity and intersectionality.
• Demonstrated ability to develop strong working relationships with stakeholders, community members, volunteers and staff, including strong cultural competency.
• Knowledge and experience using systems thinking in health promotion.
• Knowledge of health promotion principles (in Ottawa Charter), determinants of health and Victorian Health and Wellbeing Plan.
• Knowledge and skills in the health promotion core competencies: enable change, advocate for health, mediate through partnership, communication, leadership, needs assessment, planning and assessment, evaluation and research.
• Commitment to reflective practice and continuous quality improvement.
• Demonstrated project management, time management and prioritisation skills.
• Demonstrated behaviours consistent with AccessHC values.

Access Health and Community Culture and Benefits

At AccessHC, we offer more than just a fulfilling career; we provide an environment where you can thrive in a culture of collaboration and support. Our team members share commitment and passion to make a positive impact and this ethos creates a range of benefits for our people from opportunities for personal and professional growth to a sense of purpose and belonging. Our culture promotes an environment of success and fulfilment.

Join us and experience a career where you truly make a difference.

The position encompasses an extensive range of benefits:

• Supportive and values-based culture and engaged workforce
• Culture of trust and empowerment for people to grow and thrive
• Commitment to a work-life balance with flexible working conditions
• Focus on staff wellbeing and health - Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Commitment to ongoing professional development and career growth
• Paid parental leave and opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Annual leave loading
• Generous salary packaging opportunities (up to $15,990 per annum + $2,650 meals/entertainment expenses)

Read more about our culture and benefits: here.

Apply Now

Submit your application including your resume and cover letter addressing the selection criteria.

Please refer to the position description on our website for the key selection criteria information: here.

Please email, Team Leader Health Promotion, Heather Cole: [email protected], using the subject line: Health Promotion Practitioner enquiry via EthicalJobs, if you would like further information about the role.

We will be reviewing applications as they are submitted and may appoint the role before the end of date of the advertisement.

Access Health and Community is a Child Safe Organisation that values inclusivity and diversity. We encourage applications form people with disabilities, those with mental health and/or AOD recovery experience, and those with diverse genders and sexualities.

At AccessHC, our vision for reconciliation is an Australia where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience equitable health and social outcomes. Our Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) will contribute to achieving reconciliation. We will seek an understanding of and acknowledging histories and injustices, support the active expression of culture, build strong, trusting relationships, and apply culturally appropriate practices within our work. We will work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to create a welcoming and safe place for everyone at our services.

Access Health and Community acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, who are the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work. We pay our respects to Wurundjeri Elders past, present, and future, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

As a vaccine positive organisation, we encourage COVID-19 vaccination. As we offer disability services, we require successful applicants to undergo a NDIS Workers Screening Check, Working With Children Check, Police Check and potentially an International Check.

Please see the Position Description here.