Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Part time, Fixed term role
• Based in Wyndham
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Community Engagement worker contributes to community-facing functions of the Local by supporting engagement, partnership, co-design and community capacity building activities. The role assists to embed lived experience, human rights, cultural safety and trauma-informed practice in all community interfaces, and collects community insights to inform planning, service improvement and stigma-reduction efforts.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Facilitate Community Engagement strategies and activities across diverse communities in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Local (MH&WL) in the Maribyrnong catchment area
• Support consumers in the Wyndham community who are members of the West Consumer Reference Group to ensure their perspectives lead to authentic and impactful influence on service planning, delivery and review.
• Develop inclusive health promotion resources and culturally tailored activities
• Support the planning, coordination and evaluation of engagement and health promotion (mental health and wellbeing) activities

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here.
• Novated Leasing available
• A significantly discounted fitness membership with unlimited access to over 290 facilities for you and your family. To find out more click here.
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Knowledge of local mental health, AOD, family violence, housing and social service systems.
• Awareness of the needs and experiences of marginalised communities
• Promote lived experience leadership and community-led practice in all work.

Application Process

To submit your application please click 'Apply Now' by 10pm on the closing date.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Jeff Weitzel [email protected] using the subject line: Mental Health Community Engagement Worker - Werribee enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.

We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.