AddressWhere excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth
- Part time, fixed term role until June 2025
- Work for a multi-award-winning iconic Community Health organisation
- Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income
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
This Position sits within the Health Care Team within the broader AOD Response team. This position will provide clinical and non-clinical primary health and psychosocial interventions, health counselling and health promotion/education programs, individually or in groups, for people who inject drugs.
Please refer to the Position Description for more information.
Your duties include:
- Provide nursing services both onsite and on an outreach basis according to need
- Work in conjunction with specialist medical and allied health service providers who may visit Health Works to deliver their respective health care services
- Providing assistance to team members in their delivery of clinical services
- Ensuring ethical, responsible and professional goal directed, client focused services are provided
- Providing referrals to clients where appropriate to the other services provided by AOD Response specifically, cohealth generally, as well as appropriate external referrals
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: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
- Novated Leasing available
- 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:
- Registered Nurse Division 1 with current practicing registration with AHPRA
- Proof of qualification to be sighted
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the philosophy of Harm Reduction especially as it applies to people who inject drugs;
- Ability to work as a part of a team and a clear understanding of effective team work;
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Statutory Declaration, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses). Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.
Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.
Application Process
Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Renee Karapouloutidis ***************@cohealth.org.au
To apply for this job go to: https://cohealthcareers.org.au/Current-Jobs & enter ref code: 6614789.
Applications close 02 July 2024.
