• Part time, fixed term contract until April 2027
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Practice lead will ensure staff are supported to deliver programs which are evidence based, client centred, holistic, innovative, responsive and based on a harm reduction, trauma informed and recovery orientated framework, seeking to empower and educate the client cohort to make informed decisions about their health and housing circumstance.

This role will drive the team to deliver an evidenced based impactful service and to ensure the team is equipped, engaged, clear on and accountable for their roles and function allowing them to understand how the work they undertake each day supports cohealth to serve marginalised communities.

For more information, please refer to the Position Description.

Your duties include:

• Facilitate delivery of assigned program(s), in compliance with funder metrics and performance measurements and within budget/funding provisions
• Collaborates with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve responsive services which are codesigned with consumers and are impactful
• Contribute to site management as directed by Homelessness Services Cluster Lead
• Provides leadership to teams to enable them to achieve best outcomes for the client group
• Participate and lead cohealth Homelessness Services program evaluation
• Identify areas of service delivery improvement and initiate and implement quality improvement activities.

What cohealth offers:

• Generous salary packaging options to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation). Salary packaging reduces your cohealth taxable income, meaning you pay less tax on your cohealth income
• A generous rewards program from our salary packaging provider
• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks of paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• A relevant tertiary qualification in a Health-Related Discipline, Social Work or equivalent with experience in the housing, mental health, disability, or welfare sectors desirable
• Extensive leadership experience working in community or public health with marginalised populations, specifically within the homelessness population
• Proof of qualification to be sighted
• Full Victorian Driver's License

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process

Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and answer the Key Selection Criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact James Duffy James.Duffy@cohealth.org.au