Aboriginal Healthcare Practitioner

Your role 
Australian Unity is excited and proud to be partnering with Ramsay Connect to deliver the Diabetes Using Our Strengths Service (DUOSS) pilot research program. The DUOSS is an innovative virtual and face to face service that incorporates remote patient monitoring, optimising management of diabetes medicines, education, and group yarn ups to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to manage their type 2 diabetes. 

As our Aboriginal Healthcare Practitioner, you will lead the clinical delivery of the Diabetes Using Our Strengths Service (DUOSS). The role will work in a digitally enabled model of care and be responsible for the delivery of quality, clinical care for patients in managing their type two diabetes in a holistic and culturally appropriate way. 

This is a 12 month full-time fixed term role located in and around Tweed Heads with travel across Bundjalung Country required. The project is funded by MRFF funding from the Australian Government’s Targeted Translation Research Accelerator program, delivered by MTPConnect. 

About you 

You will deliver technology enabled, culturally appropriate care including: 

• Face to face home visits and remote patient monitoring
• Evidence based chronic disease management
• Care Coordination
• Clinical escalation of any concerning results, signs, or symptoms
• Health coaching
• Community yarn up sessions
• Community engagement

Your expertise and qualifications will include:

• A demonstrated ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and to facilitate culturally appropriate group yarning sessions
• Registered Aboriginal Health Practitioner with unrestricted AHPRA registration
• Clinical skills in chronic disease management and delivering care within a multi-disciplinary framework

Desirable:

• Experience in working in virtual care 
• Experience in providing diabetes management 
• Located in or around Tweed Heads
• Access to a motor vehicle for work related travel

 
To perform this role, it is essential that the person is an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person. It is therefore a genuine occupational requirement under section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991.

Click APPLY or contact Kara Favretto at KFavretto@australianunity.com.au for a confidential discussion.

To view our Reconciliation Action Plan, please click https://www.australianunity.com.au/about-us/reconciliation-action-plan   

 Should an applicant be the preferred candidate, background checks (including police checks, reference checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons and bankruptcy checks) will be completed prior to the candidate's employment being confirmed. The outcomes of the background checks do not automatically bar candidates; however, will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the job. 

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