• Located in Morwell or Glen Waverley, Hours Negotiable, Fixed term to December 31st 2021
• Join a not-for-profit health care provider who is getting back to what matters
• Take an active role in helping protect your community from COVID-19
• $98,800 p.a pro rata plus. super

At Latrobe Community Health Service you’ll be part of a positive and passionate workplace. We’re dedicated to providing you with career opportunities through work that is rewarding and meaningful within the community.

We are looking for a confident professional, ready to apply their talents and efforts in ways that will make a genuine difference to people in their community.

As a SHAR Community Engagement Officer you will spend the bulk of your working week, out in the community knocking on doors and engaging with residents in types of accommodation with higher risk of COVID-19 transmission. The role is focussed on providing residents with practical support to stay COVIDsafe including but not limited to, vaccination. You will need to be confident working collaboratively and dynamically with a dedicated team and be prepared to implement new ideas quickly and decisively when circumstances change. This role is an active, community-facing role, when the rest of the community locks down, we stand up and work to maintain community safety and comfort in stressful and uncertain times. The clinical community engagement officer role will need to be available to test residents living at in-scope properties for COVID-19 during outbreaks, training will be provided.

To be successful, you will require;

• Registered nursing qualification
• Current valid AHPRA registration
• Current Victorian driver licence.
• Latrobe Community Health Service complies with infectious disease control and immunisation requirements under legislation. This position is classified as a Health Care Worker B. Evidence of immunisation history must be provided prior to confirmed appointment.

For more information please contact Catherine Bateman, Manager, COVID-19 Shared Accommodation Response Inner Gippsland on 0477 347 691 or [email protected] OR Sean Taylor-Lyons, Manager, COVID-19 Shared Accommodation Response Monash on 0458 693 094 or [email protected] using the subject line: SHAR Community Engagement Coordinator (Clinical) - Morwell / Glen Waverley enquiry via EthicalJobs.

At Latrobe Community Health Service we want to help you get back to what matters. To apply, click the Apply Now button. A position description is attached.

We are an equal opportunity employer and therefore, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment. We are partnered with Job Access and pledged to Soldier On. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and identities, LGBTIQ+ people, people with a lived experience of disability and service personnel and their families to name a few. We will make reasonable adjustments when required. We are a child safe organisation. Successful applicants will be required to obtain a satisfactory security clearance and an Employee Working with Children Check before we can make any offer of employment.