At a Glance
- Tasks: Promote health and wellbeing in First Nations communities through culturally appropriate resources and support.
- Company: Children's Ground, a First Nations organisation focused on dignity, justice, and equity for children.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, superannuation, bonus leave, and salary sacrifice options.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team dedicated to improving health outcomes for families and children.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in your community while promoting cultural health and wellbeing.
- Qualifications: First Nations identified role with language skills and experience in health promotion.
The predicted salary is between 24.3 - 29.7 $ per hour.
About Children's Ground
Children’s Ground is a First Nations organisation. The Children’s Ground Approach is designed and delivered through the leadership of First Nations people. We are committed to systems change to ensure dignity, justice and equity for all children and families. Our work focuses on national reform as well as evidencing a new way of working. The Children’s Ground Approach is a whole of community, whole of life approach. We privilege First Nations knowledge systems and practice. Over the course of a generation, led by local expertise, we create and deliver an integrated system that is centred on learning, development and wellbeing that responds to the child and their family through the key transition points from pre-birth to young adulthood. Our approach recognises the cultural, social, and economic strength of our communities. We build on this over a generation to ensure a future for our children and grandchildren that gives them freedom, opportunity and rights to their culture and identity. Children’s Ground operates in Central Australia and across the Top End, with support provided by a Melbourne-based Shared Services team.
About the role
This position is for a First Nations person with language skills, preferably in Arrernte (western, central and/or eastern) or any other central desert language, with a strong understanding of traditional and western health. The First Nations Health Promotion Officer will work with children, young people, elders, and families to promote family health and wellbeing and to address key health concerns identified in the community. The position will provide information in first language and will work with western health promotion staff to support individual control and understanding over health concerns. This role will work with women and young girls’ men across the communities we engage, with a strong focus on maternal and child health needs, education and access and cultural health. The position will be working in a multi-disciplinary team, to deliver the Children’s Ground Family Health and Wellbeing Framework to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for the community. This will include the recognition and support of local cultural knowledge systems and practices and the agency of consumers. The Health Promotion Team will work in an integrated way with the Learning and Wellbeing Team to develop and implement family health plans with individuals and families and create and deliver responses to population health needs with the local community.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with our Learning and Wellbeing team to provide health promotion on country, during integrated delivery sessions
- Develop and assess health needs with each community
- Health resources should be developed around the Children's Ground Family Health and Wellbeing Framework
First Nations Health Promotion (Identified Role) in Alice Springs employer: Children's Ground
Children's Ground is an exceptional employer that champions First Nations leadership and community-driven change, offering a collaborative and purpose-driven work environment. Employees benefit from competitive salaries, generous superannuation, and unique salary sacrifice options, all while contributing to meaningful systems change for children and families in Central Australia and the Top End. With a strong focus on professional development and a commitment to fostering a respectful and supportive culture, Children's Ground provides ample opportunities for growth and engagement in a mission that truly matters.
