Aboriginal Health Worker / Practitioner (Copy)
Nursing
Unite Healthcare is recruiting Aboriginal Health Workers and Practitioners to join multidisciplinary healthcare teams providing essential primary healthcare within correctional environments across Victoria.
These positions focus on delivering culturally informed, trauma-aware, and person-centred care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody, ensuring access to an equivalent standard of healthcare as found in the wider community.
You’ll play an integral role in improving health outcomes, fostering cultural safety, and supporting holistic wellbeing through collaboration, education, and culturally safe health service delivery.
- Deliver culturally informed primary healthcare and health promotion within a correctional setting.
- Conduct assessments, care planning, treatment, and evaluation of Aboriginal patients within your scope of practice.
- Advocate for Aboriginal patients’ cultural, social, and health needs while working within a multidisciplinary team.
- Undertake Aboriginal health checks, chronic disease management, and culturally safe care planning.
- Identify and support patients at risk of self-harm, mental distress, or complex health needs.
- Provide education to support informed decision-making and health literacy.
- Support both Western and traditional approaches to healing where appropriate.
- Participate in discharge and release planning, including referrals to local Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) and GPs.
- Contribute to service improvement, quality, and safety initiatives in line with national healthcare standards.
- Engage in ongoing professional development and supervision within the Aboriginal Health network.
- Identify as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person (genuine occupational requirement).
- Hold a Certificate III or IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care (or equivalent).
- For Practitioner roles: AHPRA registration as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner.
- Previous experience in Aboriginal health, primary health, or correctional health settings desirable.
- Ability to provide culturally safe, evidence-based care within a multidisciplinary environment.
- Strong communication, cultural awareness, and collaboration skills.
- Current driver’s licence, National Police Check, and Working with Children Check (or willingness to obtain).
- $70,000 – $102,000 + superannuation (based on experience and qualification)
- Relocation package available for regional appointments
- Full-time or part-time flexibility
- Professional development and clinical supervision provided
- Supportive, inclusive, and culturally safe work environment
Referral reward: $1,000
