Health Promotion Worker

at  Eastern Health

TITLE: HEALTH PROMOTION WORKER

Requisition ID: 2191
Location:Healesville, VIC, AU, 3777 Lilydale, VIC, AU, 3140
Job Posting Date: 6 Jan 2025
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GRADE 2 HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTITIONER

• Permanent Part Time (4 days a week) | 5 weeks annual leave
• Healesville Hospital & Yarra Valley Health | Car-parking available
• Excellent opportunities for personal and professional development
  Are you a passionate Health Promotion Practitioner looking for a new challenge?

GOOD TO KNOW:

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
• Advertising may end before the closing date.
• We do not accept recruitment agency application

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Health Promotion Practitioner position is responsible for the planning, evaluation and delivery of primary prevention projects across the Yarra Ranges. The Grade 2 Health Promotion Practitioner reports to the Senior Health Promotion officer and works with a small team planning, delivering and evaluation the strategies outlined in Eastern Health’s annual Health Promotion action plan. The Health Promotion Practitioner position has a portfolio of prevention tasks as agreed to in coordination with the Senior Health Promotion Practitioner and the rest of the team. The Grade 2 position also has additional responsibilities such as supervising junior staff members or students as directed by the Senior Health Promotion Practitioner. The position has a high degree of autonomy and involves working with a broad range of stakeholders and partners both internal to Eastern Health and external.

To be successful in this role you will possess:

• Demonstrated experience working as a Health Promotion Practitioner
• A tertiary qualification in Health Promotion, Public Health or another relevant qualification
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• The ability to work independently and as part of a diverse tea