Health Promotion Officer

Full Time Permanent Position

Band 6 - Salary Range $92,304 to $100,516 per annum + 11% Super  + RDO 

About Melton City Council

The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality and one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.

We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.

The Opportunity

We currently have an exciting Health Promotion Officer position within our Social Planning and Wellbeing team.

You will be a proactive and self-motivated person with demonstrated understanding of Health Promotion principles and the ability to apply your knowledge in a rapidly growing and changing environment. You will apply your stakeholder engagement, planning and evaluation skills on prevention-focused health and wellbeing priorities, as outlined in the Council and Wellbeing plan, such as:

• The prevention of violence against women
• Healthy eating and food security
• Mental health and wellbeing
• Physical activity and active transport.

In this role, you will build and maintain effective relationships across organisational and community stakeholders, and embed collaboration and inclusion applications, such as systems thinking, community engagement, codesign and intersectionality principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and evaluate initiatives which contribute to the Council and Wellbeing Plan 2021 – 2025.
• Plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based initiatives that contribute to positive health and wellbeing outcomes for those who live, work, learn and play in the City of Melton municipality.
• Work collaboratively with external stakeholders to develop and implement evidence-based, prevention-focused initiatives aimed at improving health and wellbeing.
• Facilitate the revision of existing policies and procedures relating to portfolio areas.
• Deliver internal capacity building sessions for Council staff to increase awareness and understanding of how to support the community in response to emerging health and social issues.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• A tertiary qualification in Health Promotion, public health, health science, community development, or related discipline with experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of Health Promotion, social determinants of health, chronic disease prevention and preventing violence against women.
• Demonstrated experience in planning, implementing and evaluating internal staff capacity building and community health and wellbeing initiatives. 
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders from a broad range of sectors, including conflict resolution and problem solving.
• Must hold or be able to obtain an Employee Working with Children Check.

Culture and Values

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

• Motivate
• Empower
• Lead
• Trust
• Open
• Nurture 

Benefits

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council: 

Staff Benefits | Melton City Council 

• 19 Day Month
• Flexible Working Hours
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
• Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Subsidised Uniforms

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Daisy Brundell, Team Leader Community Health Promotion9747 5795. 

Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise. 

To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.

All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees and Council’s COVID-19 vaccination policy which require employees to provide documentary evidence of their vaccination status before attending the workplace.

We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.

Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.

 Applications close 11:59pm Thursday the 30th of May.