Job description
Where excellence meets opportunity – discover your next chapter with cohealth
- Part time, Fixed term until 30 June 2026
- $41.9742 per hour + Super + Salary Packaging
- 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 role is designed for an early career or new graduate Health Promotion Practitioner who is interested in developing their skills, knowledge and networks across Community Health. The Health Promotion Officer will proactively support the successful development, implementation, and evaluation of the cohealth Health Promotion Plan in collaboration with Health Promotion Coordinator and other co-workers. This role reports to a Health Promotion Coordinator.
Please refer to the Position Description for more information.
Your duties include:
- Support capacity building to improve community access to the knowledge, skills and resources they need for health and well-being.
- Plan, implement, and evaluate work affecting change at various systems levels within deadlines. This can include research and analysis of needs, community codesign, program development and cohealth Health Promotion Action Plan implementation.
- Create opportunities and implement community mobilisation and participation activities with communities across cohealth’s catchment.
- Plan and manage workload to ensure timely achievement of key accountabilities, including health promotion initiatives, reporting, quarterly learning and insights.
What cohealth offers:
- 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.
- 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:
- Tertiary qualifications in health promotion (graduated within the last 2 years). Bachelor of Public Health, Bachelor of Applied Public Health, Bachelor of Health Promotion, Bachelor of Science or Health Science majoring in public health or health promotion.
- Proof of qualification to be sighted.
- An understanding and commitment to community development and health promotion principles and practices.
- An understanding of health promotion project management cycles, including needs assessment, community engagement, planning, implementation, evaluation, and reporting.
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).
Application Process
Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. Successful applicants will demonstrate a strong understanding of health promotion. You can review the Health Promotion Core Competencies as a guide.
You need to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria. Applications that are not complete will not be reviewed.
Cover letters plan an important role in recruitment. It’s an opportunity for us to learn more about your potential fit into this role. Take time to prepare a response to each key selection criteria with a focus on being concise and clear. For each key selection criteria provide examples related to health promotion for why you are the most suitable candidate for the role. If you’re unsure, there are many resources available online, especially on university websites, such as this one. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM.
If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Hannah Downes [email protected] using the subject line: Health Promotion Officer enquiry via EthicalJobs.
Ref code: 6633707.