Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Part time (0.8 FTE), Fixed term role until Jan 2027
• Based in Sunshine
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation

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

Join us as a Community Engagement Graduate and help shape a more connected, inclusive, and stigma-free community. In this role, you'll support engagement, partnerships, co-design, and capacity-building activities across the Mental Health & Wellbeing Local. Guided by senior staff, you'll help embed lived experience, human rights, cultural safety, and trauma-informed practice into everything we do—while gathering real community insights that drive better services.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Support delivery of community engagement strategies across diverse local communities
• Assist the Consumer Reference Group to ensure genuine consumer influence on planning and service improvement
• Help create inclusive health promotion resources and culturally responsive activities
• Contribute to projects that strengthen mental health, wellbeing, and community participation

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks 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
• Salary packaging 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) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• 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:

• Relevant undergraduate qualification in community services, health promotion, social sciences or related field (minimum Cert IV/Diploma, bachelor's degree preferred)
• Lived experience of migration / resettlement, and/or capacity to speak a relevant community language desirable
• Victorian Driver's License

Application Process

To download the PD, and to apply for this job go to: https://cohealthcareers.org.au/Current-Jobs & enter ref code: 6834620.

Applications close 05 December 2025 at 10pm

You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter as well as address the key selection criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Jeff Weitzel jeff.weitzel@cohealth.org.au.

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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.