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What this job is
A Health Promotion Officer designs, implements, and evaluates community health programmes and interventions aimed at preventing disease and promoting healthy behaviours across target populations in Australian health services, local government, or not-for-profit organisations. They conduct health needs assessments, develop evidence-based health messages, and coordinate with community partners to deliver health education campaigns, screening programmes, and lifestyle modification initiatives. The role requires application of public health principles, behaviour change theory, and culturally responsive programme delivery within the Australian health system context.
Pay
A$2,024 a week
This is the median for full-time employees who are not managers and are paid at the adult rate, before tax and salary sacrifice. It is a guide to what the work pays, not a wage rate.
Source: ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.
What this role asks for
- Active Listeningcore
- Acute carecore
- Apply decision making within social workcore
- Apply quality standards in social servicescore
- Assess social service users' situationcore
- Build helping relationship with social service userscore
- Community Developmentcore
- Cultural Awareness and Sensitivitycore
- Deliver social services in diverse cultural communitiescore
- Empathy and Emotional Intelligencecore
- Goal Setting and Planningcore
- Group Facilitationcore
- Health Terminology Literacycore
- Inclusive Practicecore
- Maintain records of work with service userscore
- Policy and Procedure Adherencecore
- Regulatory and Legislative Awarenesscore
- Report Writingcore
- Research and Analysiscore
- Review social service plancore
- Stakeholder Communicationcore
- Verbal Communicationcore
- Written Communicationcore
- Adapt teaching to target group
- Address public health issues
- Adult education
- Advise on mental health
- Advise on safety measures
- Apply teaching strategies
- Compile course material
- Continuous Learning and Upskilling
- Curriculum objectives
- Digital Literacy
- Emergency cases
- Ensure equipment availability
- Feedback Collection and Actioning
- First aid
- General medicine
- Guarantee students' safety
- Health, safety and hygiene legislation
- Human anatomy
- Interpreter and Accessibility Coordination
- Microsoft Office Suite Proficiency
- Participant or Client Advocacy
- Prepare lesson content
- Process Improvement Identification
- Reporting and Analytics
- Resuscitation
- Service Navigation and Referral
- Team Collaboration