- Become an aged care support facilitator and help care for our Elders
- Eye Health 2024 Webinar Series: Eye Health and Diabetes
- VAHS team attends Oceania Tobacco Control Conference
- Opportunity for youth: Help shape policies and programs that affect young mob
- Withdrawal service to open in the Kimberley
- Sector Jobs
The NACCHO Sector News is a platform we use to showcase the important work being done in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, focusing on the work of NACCHO, NACCHO members and NACCHO affiliates.
We also share a curated selection of news stories that are of likely interest to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector, broadly.
Become an aged care support facilitator and help care for our Elders
Are you interested in a job helping Elders and older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mob receive the care they need? Have a yarn with someone at your local Aboriginal health service and ask about joining their Elder Care Support team.
These roles offer:
- Training and support towards your career pathway
- Culturally safe work and team
- Good salary and conditions
- Achieve outcomes for our mob
About the Elder Care Support Program:
The Elder Care Support program is designed to deliver Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aged Care support, connection and coordination. Through this program, NACCHO will work with the Aboriginal community-controlled sector to ensure older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families are supported to understand, navigate and access aged care services they are entitled to.
The program will increase workforce capability and capacity in community-controlled aged care support and empower the community-controlled sector to coordinate place-based aged care needs. This program is funded to deliver a workforce of 250 FTE staff across Australia to provide support to older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Learn more here.
Eye Health 2024 Webinar Series: Eye Health and Diabetes
Join us on Wednesday November 13 (1-2 PM AEDT) for the third Eye Health 2024 Webinar Series: Eye Health and Diabetes.
Ahead of World Diabetes Day join NACCHO & Diabetes Australia for an insightful webinar where we’ll explore:
- The importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes getting YEARLY eye checks to reduce their risk of vision loss and blindness.
- Diabetes management for preventing vision loss and blindness.
- How ACCHOs can be supported by Diabetes Australia to help patients with diabetes and promote positive messages to communities.
Don’t miss the chance to hear from Deanne Minniecon – National Manager of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement at Diabetes Australia & Linda Karlsson – Stakeholder Engagement Manager at KeepSight, a program run by Diabetes Australia.
To register, go here.
VAHS team attends Oceania Tobacco Control Conference
The Victorian Aboriginal Health Service (VAHS) ‘The Koori Way’ team spent a huge week at the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, strategising how best to implement the latest tobacco control research to continue the vital Tackling Indigenous Smoking work in local communities.
The team yarned with Indigenous Peoples from all over Australia, Aotearoa and the wider Pacific, hearing success stories such as the Cook Islands banning the importation of vapes outright, to Mob in in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands self-governing to keep tobacco products out of Community for the best public health outcomes.
Read more about the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference here.
Learn more about Tackling Indigenous Smoking.
Opportunity for youth: Help shape policies and programs that affect young mob
The Australian Government Office for Youth (OFY) has opened applications for the First Nations Youth Advisory Group. Members will work with the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations to provide advice and share experience on career information.
They will also support the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) on programs and policies administered by their agency that would benefit the input of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people.
This includes the opportunity to provide input on the 2025 AIATSIS Youth Forum on Larrakia Country (Darwin) among other initiatives.
Applications close November 17.
For more information, go here.
Withdrawal service to open in the Kimberley
Delivered by Wunan, the new Kimberley Withdrawal and Intervention Centre will provide a low medical withdrawal service in the Kimberley region, offering the local community a safe place to withdraw from alcohol and other drugs and stabilise before receiving further treatment.
The Cook Government has provided $7.8 million for the Aboriginal community-controlled withdrawal service located in Kununurra, Western Australia. This model aims to keep people with mental health and alcohol and other drug issues connected and close to home.
“The opening of this service maps a new direction for intervening in alcohol and drug issues in rural and regional areas of Western Australia,” Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said.
To learn more, go here.
Sector Jobs – you can see sector job listings on the NACCHO website here.
Advertising Jobs – to advertise a job vacancy click here to go to the NACCHO website current job listings webpage. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to find a Post A Job form. You can complete this form with your job vacancy details – it will then be approved for posting and go live on the NACCHO website.
