Program Officer – Aboriginal Community Engagement

This position is full-time, 5 days per week, 35 hours per week and based at our offices in Surry Hills, Sydney.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to drive meaningful engagement and genuine health improvement for and with Aboriginal people and communities across NSW. This role is designed such that the successful applicant will be able to shape and drive their job in the direction that works for the Aboriginal community, for Hepatitis NSW’s strategic goals, and for NSW’s hepatitis B & C elimination goals. This provides exciting flexibility and the opportunity to carve out a role that suits the person in the role: one that can be built and grown around your skills, experience, and knowledge.

Prior knowledge of hepatitis B or C are not required nor is a previous background in the health sector; this knowledge can be easily learned. What is most important is motivation to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people affected by these viruses and a community-minded approach to engagement.

As Program Officer – Aboriginal Community Engagement you will:

  • Lead, plan, deliver, and develop hepatitis B and C outreach health promotion activities that engage Aboriginal communities across NSW.
  • Contribute to activities that improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people living with or at risk of hepatitis B and C in NSW.
  • Contribute to reducing stigma and discrimination experienced by Aboriginal people in relation to living with hepatitis B and C.
  • Build strong relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders to increase access to health services for Aboriginal people.

For more information about the role and how to apply, please download the job pack, here >>

This role is open for applications with no current closure date.
Please send your application marked “Confidential” to Maria McMahon by email to: [email protected]

For more information about this role, if you need any clarification, or if you’d simply like to chat about the position, please contact:
Kyle Leadbeatter, Program Manager – Priority Populations and Settings
02 8217 7707[email protected]

Project Officer – Custody to Community

This position is part-time, 28 hours per week and based at our offices in Surry Hills, Sydney.

The Custody to Community Project is a new project for Hepatitis NSW with the aim of assisting people who are exiting prison while on hepatitis C treatment in completing their course of 8- or 12-week treatment and getting tested to check that they are cured upon completion. The project officer will work closely with Justice Health NSW on this project and involve meeting people inside prison before release

As Program Officer – Custody to Community your key areas of work will include:

  • Building the Custody to Community project from proposal to effective program.
  • Working closely with Justice Health to establish systems to connect with people in prison who are on hep C treatment and due for release in the near future.
  • Establishing strong and diverse relationships with partners who can provide continuity of care to people exiting the criminal justice system.
  • Develop a strong suite of referral links and pathways to assist clients with addressing non-hepatitis issues.
  • Building strong data collection and evaluation tools to build a strong evidence base for the program and meet key performance indicators.
  • Visiting people in prison to establish rapport in order to assist with their treatment continuation post-release.
  • Contacting people post-release via phone to ensure continuity of care, completion of treatment, and testing for cure (SVR testing).
  • Developing data collection and evaluation mechanisms in line with the project’s goals and key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Working on the Hepatitis Infoline to conduct intakes of new clients.
  • Other correctional services related duties as required.

This role will require out of office work visiting prisons in the Sydney area. Office-based work will take place at the Hepatitis NSW in Surry Hills. This will also come with light physical demands such as transporting resources.

This role is a fixed term position for 12 months.

For more information about the role and how to apply, please download the job pack, here >>

Applications close 12pm, Monday 4th March 2024.
Please send your application marked “Confidential” to Maria McMahon by email to: [email protected]

For more information about this role, if you need any clarification, or if you’d simply like to chat about the position, please contact:
Kyle Leadbeatter, Program Manager – Priority Populations and Settings
02 8217 7707[email protected]

Casual Multicultural Liver Health Worker

This position is casual and based in Sydney metro only.

We’re looking for people to join our growing multicultural liver health team. This role is open to anyone who has a high level of English as well as speaks fluent Mandarin/ Cantonese, Vietnamese, or Korean.

This role is a great opportunity to gain some practical skills in the world of health promotion and community healthcare and we’d love to provide you with the experience to go on to further work in this space. We’re part of an exciting research study providing hepatitis B healthcare for multicultural communities in the community. There are lots of roles within the team including doing rapid finger prick testing for hepatitis B, engaging with the community, completing research intake forms with community members, and helping to organise our health promotion events.

Some more information about the role

  • $40.26 per hour casual work plus paid travel and paid travel time.
  • Based in Sydney metro only.
  • Part of a team of more than 10 other casual staff.
  • Must be able to speak a language other than English.
  • Must be eligible to work in Australia.
  • COVID vaccination and hepatitis B immunity (or lived experience) are required.

There are no major qualifications or experience required and we will provide paid training for all the team. We only ask that people are confident in engaging with the community, have good computer and communication skills, and have a passion for improving the health of their community.

We will open this role up to people fluent in Arabic and Filipino as well as people from African and Pacific Islander backgrounds later in the year so please keep an eye on this page for future intakes.

Applications close Friday 22nd of March, 5pm

To apply, please complete this form here and we’ll get back to you: https://forms.office.com/r/nWrVdQKWGc

For more information about this role, if you need any clarification, or if you’d simply like to chat about the position, please contact:
Kyle Leadbeatter, Program Manager – Priority Populations and Settings
02 8217 7707 [email protected]

Hepatitis NSW is committed to the ideal of equal opportunity in employment and will not discriminate against applicants or employees on the grounds of race, gender, physical or intellectual impairment, sexuality, gender identity, marital status, religious belief, political conviction, viral hepatitis or other health status, or on any other ground that is not relevant in determining the best applicant for any position. People with viral hepatitis are encouraged to apply, as are people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.

We are required by our funder, NSW Health, to carry out a national criminal record check for all new employees, casual staff, and volunteers on our Board of Governance or with direct client contact. This is a confidential process which will be carried out before an offer of employment is made to a preferred applicant. To enable this to occur, applicants must provide proof of identity and sign a consent form.

This page last updated 29 February 2024

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