Location: North West Region | Bendigo
Job type: Not provided
Organisation: Bendigo Health
**Salary**: Salary not specified
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**Work in an environment that offers**:
- An important new opportunity to improve public health outcomes for all people living in the Loddon-Mallee region
- An ability to live and work close to home and from office locations across the Loddon-Mallee region
- Support for part-time and flexible working arrangements to suit your personal and professional circumstances
**The Position**
**Position Title**: Prevention & Population Health Officer
**Classification**: Allied Services Managers & Administration HS4 or clinical award as appropriate
**Salary per hour (exc. super)**: As per award
**Hours per fortnight**: Negotiable - multiple positions available
**Employment Status**: Part-Time - Ongoing
**Office locations**:Bendigo, Kyneton/Castlemaine
**Other requirements**: COVID-19 Vaccination
**Role Description**
Reporting to the Prevention & Population Health Loddon Manager, who oversees place-based operations for the Loddon-Mallee Public Health Unit (LMPHU), focusing on improved prevention and population health outcomes.
The Prevention & Population Health Officer collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate, deliver and evaluate projects improving health and wellbeing outcomes and tackling inequalities in health at a sub-regional level.
This role provides operational support to sub-regional and local area planning, stakeholder engagement, workforce capacity building and other activities improving prevention and population health outcomes. The Prevention & Population Health Officer also supports workforce development, community engagement and communication activities at a sub-regional and community level.
**Bendigo Health**
Our 700 bed state of the art hospital was built in 2017. We are a leader in regional health care, combining outstanding services with a strong education, training and personal development culture. We have all of the latest technologies allowing our 5000 staff to deliver _Excellent Care to Every Person, Every Time._ Remuneration is in accordance with Victorian Public Health Enterprise Agreements and generous salary packaging arrangements are offered to all staff. Bendigo Health offer:
- Flexible Working Arrangements
- Salary Packaging
- Financial relocation support available for eligible applicants
- Reimbursements for the cost of obtaining any required pre-employment checks (Police Check, WWCC and/or NDIS Worker Screening Check)
- Staff health and wellbeing programs
- Access to recommended immunisations
- Smoke free environment
If successful for a position at Bendigo Health you must provide evidence of your full immunisation record as part of the on boarding process.
**The Team**
The Loddon-Mallee Public Health Unit (LMPHU) works to keep our regional community healthy, safe and well. We use local knowledge, community-based relationships and direct engagement to effectively tailor and deliver public health initiatives and respond to incidents and issues within the Loddon-Mallee region.
First established in 2020 to manage local cases and outbreaks of COVID-19, LMPHU now has a wider range of responsibility for the prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases and health threats. LMPHU works in partnership with primary, acute and community health services, state government agencies, local governments and local communities to promote health and wellbeing, and tackle inequalities in health, for all those living in the Loddon-Mallee region.
**Diversity and Inclusion**
Bendigo Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace diversity and social inclusion and encourage people from a diverse cultural background, people with disabilities and or Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people to apply.