Make a meaningful difference through lived experience

Better Health Network isseekinga passionate and experiencedHealth Educatorto join our specialistResourcing Health and Education in the Sex Industry (RhED)team.RhED is part of BHN’s Resilient Communities program and delivers trauma-informed, culturally safe, and inclusive services for people working in the sex industry. Our work is grounded in peer leadership, social justice, and harm reduction principles.We recognise the enormous value of lived and living experience within the sex industry and strongly encourage applications from current or former sex workers.

Working within a supportive multidisciplinary team, you will deliver health education, outreach, advocacy, stakeholderengagementand health promotion initiatives while contributing to service innovation, communitydevelopmentand systems advocacy.

In this role you will:

- Provide trauma-informed health education, information,advocacyand referrals to sex workers.
- Deliver outreach, workshops and training to communityorganisations, healthprofessionalsand key stakeholders.
- Develop engaging health promotion resources, digitalcontentand publications.
- Build strong partnerships across the health, legal,justiceand community sectors.
- Apply your lived experience to strengthen trust, reducestigmaand improve access to services.

About you

You will bring:

- Lived and/or living experience as a current or former sex worker (essential).
- A qualification in health, socialworkor a related discipline (or equivalent experience where applicable).




- Experience working withmarginalisedcommunities using trauma-informed,strengths-basedand culturally safe practice.
- Excellent communication, relationship-buildingand facilitation skills.
- A passion for advocacy, healthpromotionand improving outcomes for sex workers.

Why join RhED?

- Work within one of Victoria's leading specialist sex worker health programs.
- Be part of a values-drivenorganisationcommitted to inclusion,equityand community wellbeing.
- Accessprofessional development, reflectivepracticeand specialist lived experience workforce supervision.
- Contribute to meaningful work that creates lasting change for communities.

Interested?

This is a unique opportunity as a current or former sex worker to use that expertise in a skilled role that improves the health, safety and wellbeing of sex workers across Victoria.

If you have enquiries about the role, please reach out to Samantha Amos, Team Leader RhED at *****@bhn.org.au or Gemma Fitzgerald, Program Manager, Resilient Communities at ***********@bhn.org.au

We value Accountability, Collaboration, Respect, and Courage, and we strive to create an inclusive environment that welcomes people from all backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally and linguistically diverse, and LGBTQI+ communities.

Pre-employment checks include reference checks, National Police Check, Working with Children Check and evidence of right to work in Australia.

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📌 Health Educator - RhEd (Victoria)
🏢 Better Health Network
📍 Victoria