Lead Health Education Officer

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time (until 30 June 2025)

Position Classification: Health Educ Off Non Grad

Remuneration: $30.44 ph - $44.03 ph + super

Hours Per Week: 20

Requisition ID: REQ467430

Location: Broken Hill NSW

We really aren’t that far away - only 3 hours’ drive from Mildura, 5 hours from Adelaide or a short flight from anywhere in Australia with everything you need right at your front door!

Broken Hill truly is a town like no other with a supportive community that will welcome you with open arms. We can't wait to see you! Take a quick look at " Living and Working " in the Far West.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide lead education, health promotion and health surveillance service for families, health professionals and the community on lead issues.
• Lead Health Program team members work collaboratively with families and stake holders to ensure practice is evidence based and the program is responsive to consumers of the Service.

What Is On Offer

• 5 weeks paid annual leave every year
• Salary packaging (pay less tax!), this includes Remote Area Housing and Employee Meal Card
• Isolation & climate allowance
• Special rates at local gyms
• Support through advanced education & training
• A comfortable country lifestyle that supports balance & wellbeing

About The Far West LHDThe Far West Local Health District is one of 15 LHDs under NSW Health, providing high quality public health services to the communities in far west NSW. FWLHD has a mandate to provide the highest quality care and services to its communities using the latest clinical evidence and technological enablers. Our vision is to create excellence in rural and remote healthcare.

Key to our success of course, is our people. Our workforce is inclusive and diverse. We employ well over 800 clinicians and support staff across our 9 health facilities in Broken Hill, Balranald, Dareton, Ivanhoe, Menindee, Tibooburra, Wentworth, White Cliffs and Wilcannia. In the Far West LHD, we are working together to make a real difference to the health outcomes for our communities. We encourage you to consider joining our friendly team for a meaningful and rewarding career in rural and remote healthcare.

About Broken Hill

A true “Oasis in the Outback”, Broken Hill is a thriving regional town in far west NSW full of diversity, history and character. Being Australia’s first city to be Nationally Heritage Listed, Broken Hill is a culturally rich town with a vibrant art scene with over 20 galleries (more than pubs)! The unique attractions, festivals and beautiful natural landscapes see tourists flock from all over, but the ones who stay quickly fall in love with the place and its livability.

With a population just shy of 20,000, Broken Hill is small enough to allow for a relaxed country lifestyle, while big enough to provide all the desired facilities of a regional hub including major supermarkets and retail stores, excellent schools (7 primary & 2 high), multiple gyms & aquatic centre, well-known fast food franchises and a plethora of trendy restaurants, pubs and cafés.

Broken Hill truly is a town like no other with a supportive community that will welcome you with open arms. We can’t wait to see you soon!

How To Apply

To be considered for this position, please ensure you address the selection criteria in the application as thoroughly as possible

• Demonstrated knowledge of lead as a public health issue, in particular the effects of lead exposure for young children.
• Experience in capillary testing in clinical settings or willingness to undertake training.
• Experience in or knowledge of the case management of families.
• Demonstrated knowledge of or experience in the development and implementation of health education & health promotion activities
• Demonstrated high level interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, including experience in working with databases and computer software applications.
• Experience working effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team and proven ability to work independently and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation.
• Current license to drive in NSW.

The Welcome ExperienceThe Welcome Experience in Broken Hill connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.

Learn More At Www.nsw.gov.au/welcomeexperience

Need more information?

• Click here for the Position Description
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For role related queries or questions contact Kelli Morris on ************@health.nsw.gov.au

Applications Close: 28/2/2024

At Far West Local Health District we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where we don’t just accept differences, but we honour and support it. Committed to providing a working environment that thrives and values diversity, we encourage people of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background, people with a disability and people from the LGBTQI+ community to apply.

Agency: Health