Baby Makes 3 Antenatal Lead

Baby Makes 3Antenatal Lead 

• Box Hill & Eltham locations with Hybrid Working options
• Competitive salary including salary packaging
• Full time, fixed term June 2025 

 
Who are we?
healthAbility, as the name suggests, plays a unique and valuable role in the health system. We work to address the root causes of vulnerability, prevent disease and promote lifelong health outcomes, empowering people in our community to live their best life.

Our role is also supporting people to self-manage long-term health conditions, such as diabetes and mental health challenges, with multidisciplinary teams delivering community-based programs in a comfortable setting. We also support people, including older people and people with disability, to stay living at home longer and to live well in their community. 

Our broad range of primary health services, care management and in home and community support services can be tailored to an individual’s needs and with major hubs in Box Hill and Eltham, these services can be delivered locally, in the Eastern and North Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. 

Why work with us?
Although our clients are at the heart of what we do and we strive to positively impact our communities and those who need it most, the wellbeing of our employees is just as important. 

When joining healthAbility’s supportive, kind, caring and ethical culture, you are welcomed by multi-disciplinary teams passionate about the health and wellbeing of clients and communities, from prevention through to specialist care, and passionate about continually learning and building on their areas of expertise. We embrace this passion and are values driven, offering careers with meaning and environments that are flexible, evolving, creative and connected. 

healthAbility is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We promote a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome and value unique contributions of all people. This means we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ and from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this job, with age being no barrier.

The Opportunity
We are looking for an exceptional prevention and gender equality lead for our Baby Makes 3 Antenatal Lead in a full time, fixed term capacity until June 2025. 

In an exciting opportunity, you will be responsible for leading and supporting the planning, implementation and evaluation of healthAbility’s award winning, evidence-based and social change initiative - Baby Makes 3. Baby Makes 3 builds capacity of existing health and social systems to create gender equality, prevent violence against women and promote mental wellbeing for parents As the Antenatal Lead you will work closely with Victorian Public and Maternity services and other key partners to implement the Baby Makes 3 program, whole of setting framework and relevant initiatives. 

Skills & Experience
To be successful, we are seeking a Lead who has the following experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification such as Health Promotion, Public health / Health Sciences and/or minimum of three years’ experience working the primary prevention of violence against women 
• Highly developed communication skills including report writing and development of collateral to support project implementation
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience working within a primary prevention of violence against women framework
• Highly developed project management skills, understanding of the design and implementation of systems and programs, problem solving skills and the ability to work autonomously and the ability to be flexible and responsive to issues and new developments
• Demonstrated experience in developing partnerships with a range of organisations with ease 
• Demonstrated proficient computer skills in MS Office applications (Word and Excel)
• Experience in facilitation and group training would be highly regarded 
• Desirable, experience working in or with antenatal maternity services 

 If you want to work with great people - we'd love to hear from you.

To view the position description, please go to https://healthability.org.au/join-us/careers- Any enquiries can be made to Louisa Mitchell, Health Promotion Manager, at ***************@healthability.org.au 

Please apply here by submitting a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria with your CV.  Thank you for your time and interest and please note, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted directly. No agencies please.

Employment with healthAbility is conditional upon being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or medically exempt and providing satisfactory evidence of the same.

See the video to hear from our employees why this opportunity is much more than a job and how healthAbility offers careers with meaning.