Location: Herston, Brisbane
Employment status: Fixed Term Temporary Full-time for 12 months
Classification: HP4
Work unit: Blood-Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections Unit, Communicable Diseases Branch, Population Health Division

About the role

The Public Health Officer – Senior is responsible for designing, coordinating, implementing and evaluating statewide preventive health strategies and interventions to protect and promote health and reduce the burden of disease associated with blood borne viruses (BBVs) and sexually transmissible infections (STIs).

Key responsibilities:

• Adhere to defined service quality standards, health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken to ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.
• Apply evidence, theory and judgement in planning, implementing and evaluating services and programs addressing BBVs and STIs.
• Coordinate planning, strategy development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of preventive health services and programs addressing BBVs and STIs.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders including national partners, state government departments, clinical networks, health service providers and non-government service providers to build preventive health capacity in the sector and improve the delivery of preventive health interventions to respond to emerging trends.
• Provide professional advice to senior management, partners, and other stakeholders to influence the strategic planning and delivery of complex and/or innovative BBV and STI related preventive health programs and service delivery models.
• Contribute to planning for the development of services and future directions for service delivery capacity, workforce development, flexible resource use and alternative service models.
• Represent the Department of Health as appropriate in departmental forums and working groups in the development and implementation of strategies, policies and guidelines addressing BBVs and STIs.
• Manage the collection and dissemination of data amongst key stakeholders to underpin evidence-based design, implementation and evaluation of programs and services.
• Develop and maintain appropriate information for professionals and the general public.
• Promote and contribute to a work environment that encourages and promotes feedback, innovation and high-level customer focus.

Mandatory qualifications, registrations and other requirements:

• The successful applicant must hold at least a tertiary degree qualification in Public Health or Health Promotion from a recognised institution.
• Appointment to this position requires proof of qualification. Certified copies of the required information must be provided to the appropriate supervisor/manager, prior to the commencement of duties.

Role fit

The essential requirements for this role are:

• Demonstrated ability to apply a high level of knowledge, expertise and skills addressing BBV and STI issues in a complex contemporary population health environment.
• Demonstrated ability to engage in high level, operational and community consultation and provide high level professional advice on BBV and STI issues to stakeholders both within and outside the discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to design and manage BBV and STI projects, programs and services involving stakeholders from a range of disciplines and lead change through dissemination and communication of key outcomes.

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