ORGANISATION PROFILE

Cumberland Women’s Health Centre (CWHC) is a not-for-profit community organisation that works with women who experience family and domestic violence, trauma, and disadvantage in the Parramatta/Cumberland LGAs. The services we provide include case coordination support, advocacy, referral, counselling, case-management and health-centred groups and programs. Our services help women to regain control in their lives and thrive through the development of self-confidence; reducing social isolation and building social networks; reducing health inequities; and achieving economic independence. 

POSITION SUMMARY

The Health Promotion / Group Worker assists the Manager in service delivery, representing CWHC in local networks and initiatives, and with the facilitation and administration of the group work program. The Health Promotion / Group Worker provides high-level guidance regarding how to ensure CWHC is relevant, accessible, and responsive to women and their children from multicultural backgrounds. 

The position is responsible for:

• Developing and facilitating community education workshops in response to local priorities.
• Lead the planning of local campaigns and events, with the goal to promote the mission and purpose of CWHC in the local area.
• Collaboratively develop and support community events, work with stakeholders, partners and vendors relating to the events program.
• Build and maintain partnerships with relevant stakeholders.
• Support the successful implementation of CWHC’s group work program, including supporting group facilitators, resourcing, maintaining project documentation, and monitoring project plans to ensure project outcomes are achieved.
• Preparation of data and project reports and evaluations for internal review and external reporting purposes.
• Provide effective, efficient, and timely services in a manner consistent with organisational philosophy, policies and procedures, service agreements, and relevant legislation. 

ESSENTIAL SELECTION CRITERIA

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Health Promotion / social work or equivalent relevant qualification.
• Experience in planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion programs.
• Ability to effectively plan, manage and prioritise own work with minimum supervision.
• Experience working in a community organisation (group work and community development work).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain working relationships across all levels of an organisation, with key stakeholders and with members of the community.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to compose engaging content for online social media platforms.
• Demonstrated commitment to feminist practice and social justice.
• Demonstrated interest in and knowledge of women’s health issues, including domestic and family violence issues.
• Police Check & WWCC

DESIRABLE SELECTION CRITERIA

• Experience developing and facilitating community education workshops in response to local priorities.
• Experience in community engagement, including sensitivity to working with women from diverse cultural and class backgrounds and ages.
• Excellent audio-visual skills.
• Experience working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
• Ability to speak more than one language.

Aboriginal, CALD and LGBTQI+ identifying women are encouraged to apply. CWHC considers being female a genuine occupational requirement as per section 31 of the Anti-Discrimination Act.’