• Employment Type: Full Time Fixed Term until 30/06/2024
• Hours: 75 hours per fortnight
• Area: Greater Shepparton Region

Only accepting applicants that identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
Interviews for this position will be held on the 11th and 12th of October 2023.

Primary Care Connect is a local community health centre operating under the social model of health. We are a not-for-profit organisation that has continued to offer local, quality services focusing on a range of health and wellbeing matters for the past 30 years. We work to achieve this by providing inclusive community health care services of the highest quality. We work collaboratively with individuals and other stakeholders to identify, discuss, and resolve the complex issues affecting our community’s health and wellbeing.

To find out more about Primary Care Connect, please visit www.primarycareconnect.com.au

Use your passion for health care and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to join PCC as the new Aboriginal Health Coach!

About the Role

The Aboriginal Health Coach position works with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) & others who are living with a chronic condition. The position provides health coaching, smoking cessation, exercise programs and advocacy and support for specialist health care.

The target population is ATSI people;

• With a diagnosed chronic disease/s especially diabetes, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and asthma, and or
• With complex needs, particularly in the elderly, and who are;
• Assessed as at risk of progressing towards hospitalisation and requiring a managed and planned approach to reduce risk.

The program aims to;

• Improve access to quality integrated multidisciplinary care across the care continuum.
• Facilitate client centred care, empowerment and health literacy through self-management programs and approaches.
• Promote and encourage protective behaviours (e.g. health eating, physical activity).
• Reduce inappropriate demand on the acute health care system.

The Aboriginal Health Coach will;

• Undertake health and social needs assessments of clients using the nominated assessment tools to develop goals and care plan to achieve self-management.
• Facilitate and coordinate mainstream and specialist referrals to health and community service providers.
• Recruit eligible clients to the program using various methods or by referral from health providers and community.
• Provide a range of services suitable to individual client’s self-management goals and needs including health coaching and self-management programs.
• Promote and support client participation and responsibility in decisions about their health behaviours, condition management / self-management and planning for discharge from the service.
• Facilitate group education sessions, exercise group programs.
• Actively engage in health promotion activities.
• Integrated work into the wider Primary Care Connect services.

Key Selection Criteria

Essential:

• Certificate 3 in Fitness and registration with Fitness Australia and minimum of two years’ experience in the Health and/or Fitness Industry.
• Current Apply First Aid Certificate.
• Experience in conducting and facilitating group sessions.
• Experience working and communicating effectively with Aboriginal Australians and their community with the capacity to work within the intricacies of a cross-cultural environment.
• Demonstrated experience in networking and stakeholder building across the broader community, as well as experience working within a partnership environment.
• Ability to motivate and engage with clients throughout personal training sessions & deal with conflict as appropriate.
• High level of initiative, proactive in relationship building locally, with strong engagement skills.
• Well-developed organisational and time management skills
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills including:
• High level of skill and accuracy in recording data, correspondence and reporting and the ability to use a range of IT/web-based applications to manage workflow in accordance with organisational guidelines (word, excel, outlook etc).
• Good interpersonal, team and networking skills, and capacity to work independently.
• Professional and personal alignment with Primary Care Connect core values.

Benefits and Perks

Primary Care Connect provides a supportive workplace with staff who are committed and passionate about the community that we work in. Some of the many benefits of working with PCC include:

• Professional Development
• Salary Packaging
• Employee Assistance Program
• In house gym

All candidates who are interested in the position must include in their application the following; 

• Cover letter including address to Key Selection Criteria
• Resume with at least two professional references, or willingness to provide on request

Further information can be found by:

1. Visiting our careers page: https://www.primarycareconnect.com.au/Careers/Current-Vacancies OR
2. Contacting Matilda McCluskey – Team Leader Allied Health (03)5823 3200