Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service – Cairns QLD
Permanent Full Time | Cairns based with regular travel to Cape York communities
Ready for a meaningful role that starts with a yarn? Megan Pickford, *** would love to hear your story and answer any questions you may have about the role.
Tell me more... Based in Cairns, this role works as part of the Maternal Child and Family Health Outreach Service, delivering high-level child and youth health care with a focus on care coordination, advocacy, education, and family support. The position requires regular travel across the Torres and Cape communities to partner with local stakeholders and service providers, ensuring culturally safe and responsive healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people, and families, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and those with special or complex needs.
Qualified and personal motivators!
As an Indigenous Health Worker, your advocacy for local Torres and Cape patients is vital in ensuring culturally sensitive and effective health care.
You'll work in diverse and supportive environments that offer attractive lifestyle opportunities and experiences and enable you to make a valuable contribution in small communities.
These communities will help you grow, connect, learn and create life-defining experiences that will shape who you are as a health professional and a person.
Torres and Cape will give you a career with purpose, plus excellent benefits and allowances;
- Base salary comprising between $79,661 - $109,546 per annum
- Workplace benefits | Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service
- Generous employer superannuation contribution of 12.75%
- Salary packaging options Salary and benefits | Careers (health.qld.gov.au)
- Generous leave entitlements including 17.5% loading on annual leave
Living within the Torres and Cape region means you will be able to enjoy:
- Immersing yourself in nature, from the outback to tropical rainforests, coral reefs and extraordinary landscapes.
- Short commute to work, allowing greater work/life balance
Imagine yourself here? Find out aboutTorres and Cape HHSand theTorres StraitandCooktown and Cape Yorkregions on the Tropical North Queensland website.
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