Health Promotion Officer

Full Time Fixed Term Position - Until December 2025

Band 6 - Salary Range $95,073 - $103,531 per annum + 11.5% Super

Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.

About Melton City Council

The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality — one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.

We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.

The Opportunity

We currently have an exciting Health Promotion Officer position (reporting to the Team Leader, Community Health Promotion within our Social Planning and Wellbeing team), to deliver two grant-funded projects, the Kids Active Travel and the Vaping Prevention in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Youth programs.

You will be a proactive, experienced, and self-motivated person with demonstrated understanding of health promotion principles and the ability to apply your knowledge in a rapidly growing and changing environment and coordinate a wide range of community stakeholders.

In this role, you will apply your stakeholder engagement, youth co-design, program planning, management and evaluation skills on prevention-focused health and wellbeing priorities, as outlined in the Council and Wellbeing plan, with a focus on:

• Social inclusion and mental wellbeing
• Physical activity and active transport
• Vaping prevention and harm reduction

In this role, you will build and maintain effective relationships across organisational and multiple community stakeholders with a strong focus on school communities, and embed collaboration and inclusion applications, such as systems thinking, whole-of-school and community engagement, codesign and intersectionality principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and evaluate initiatives which contribute to the Council and Wellbeing Plan 2021 – 2025, and other relevant strategies and plans.
• Oversee the successful implementation and evaluation of the Kids Active Travel State Government funded program.
• Oversee the successful implementation and evaluation of the Vaping Prevention State Government funded program, with a focus on CALD communities.
• Work collaboratively with external stakeholders to develop and implement evidence-based initiatives aimed at improving health and wellbeing, in alignment with program objectives.
• Design and deliver capacity building sessions for school communities to increase awareness and understanding of how to support the community in response to emerging health and social issues.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you
 

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• A tertiary qualification in health promotion, public health, community development, health science or related discipline with experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of health promotion, social determinants of health, and chronic disease prevention.
• Stakeholder and community engagement and management skills.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, and the ability to prioritise workload requirements and capacity.
• Experience in planning, implementing, and evaluating community capacity building and community health and wellbeing programs.
• Must hold or be able to obtain an Employee Working with Children Check.

Culture and Values

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

• Motivate
• Empower
• Lead
• Trust
• Open
• Nurture

Benefits

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council: 

Staff Benefits | Melton City Council

• 5 weeks annual leave
• Flexible Working Hours
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave) 
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
• Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Subsidised Uniforms

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Daisy Brundell, Team Leader Health Promotion on 9747 5795. 

Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise. 

To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.

All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees.

We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.

Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.

 Applications close 11:59pm Monday 12th August 2024.