Advance Health Worker Hearing Health (Identified)
North West Hospital and Health Service
Posted 6 days ago
North West Hospital and Health Service (HHS)
- Unique locations
- Friendly communities
- Regional, rural and remote $$$ incentives
Working with us
- 12.75% employer superannuation contribution.
- Long Service Leave and Sick Leave accrual.
- Tax savings through salary sacrificing options are also available.
Professionally, our HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff. We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.
The lifestyle in Mount Isa is family friendly; it is a vibrant city with an outback community feel. You will fall in love with the natural splendour of the North West Queensland region, the experience of a rural/urban community and the opportunity to make a real and positive difference... and want to stay. The Traditional Owners of the area are the Kalkadoon people.
Mount Isa is a great place to live and work!
About the role
As part of the Hearing Health Program team, you'll deliver culturally safe hearing screening and education services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from Prep to Year 4 across the North West region. In this role, you will: •
- Conduct hearing screenings and refer children for follow-up care.
- Provide culturally appropriate health education to families and schools.
- Work within a multidisciplinary team to support community-based hearing programs.
- Promote self-management and holistic approaches to child and family wellbeing.
- Contribute to data collection, reporting, and quality improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- It is essential that the person who holds the position be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person. It is therefore a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 that applicants are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders.
- Mandatory requirements are a relevant tertiary degree qualification and appropriate registration/licences.
- C Class Motor Vehicle Licence.
- Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Criminal History checks.
- This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.
- A period of probation may apply.
Interested?
Download the Role Description for further information and application / interview preparation.
Apply ONLINE: https://smartjobs.qld.gov.au/jobs/QLD-MI666529
Contact: Kerri O'Connor on (07) 4764 0850
Applications close: Monday 17 November 2025
About North West Hospital and Health Service
Our vision
Healthier Queenslanders.
Our purpose
To provide leadership and direction, and to work collaboratively to ensure the health system to deliver quality services that are safe and responsive for Queenslanders.
Our responsibilities
The Department of Health's role include:
1.providing strategic leadership and direction for health through the development of policies, legislation and regulations
2.developing statewide plans for health services, workforce and major capital investment
3.managing major capital works for public sector health service facilities
4.purchasing health service delivery
5.supporting and monitoring the quality of health service delivery
6.delivering specialised health services, providing ambulance, health information and communication technology and statewide health support services.
Hospital and Health Services are independent statutory agencies responsible for their own strategic plans.
Our strategic objectives
1.Supporting Queenslanders to be healthier: promoting and protecting the health of Queenslanders
2.Enabling safe, quality services: delivering and enabling safe, clinically effective, high quality health services
3.Equitable health outcomes: improving health outcomes through better access to services for Queenslanders
4.High performance: responsive, dynamic and accountable management of the department, and of funding and service performance
5.Dynamic policy leadership: drive service improvement and innovation through a collaborative policy cycle
6.Broad engagement with partners: harnessing the skill and knowledge of our partners
7.Engaged and productive workforce: foster a culture that is vibrant, innovative and collaborative
Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website.
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