Toomelah / Boggabilla Community Development Facilitator (Identified)

Toomelah is an Aboriginal Community in the far north of New England, New South Wales within the Boggabilla locality in Moree Plains Shire on the New South Wales-Queensland border. Toomelah is 14 kilometres from Boggabilla in New South Wales, and 27 kilometres from Goondiwindi in Queensland.

The Toomelah Aboriginal community is part of Goomeroi nation originally drawn from communities including Moree, Boggabilla/Toomelah, and Goondiwindi. Goomeroi country extends from the Upper Hunter Valley through to the Warrumbungle Mountains in the West and up through the present-day centres of Coonabarabran, Quirindi, Tamworth, Narrabri, Walgett, Moree and Mungindi in New South Wales, and to Nindigully in South-west Queensland.

Population: According to the New South Wales Government documents at the time of the 2021 Census, 72% of the population of Toomelah identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.


About The Opportunity:
The Community Development Facilitator is responsible for enhancing access to and flow of information and resources in relation to health, wellbeing and government service delivery.

The position will be managing and supervising a multi-disciplinary team working within the Toomelah Health Clinic. The Community Development Facilitator will work with a diverse range of health professionals to improve Aboriginal health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living within the Toomelah Community and accessing the Health Clinic. 

If you are passionate about delivering healthcare with the greatest impact, then come and join us at the Toomelah Health Clinic.
Be part of a supportive environment, where you can apply your skills to address complex healthcare needs while broadening your professional capabilities to maximise patient outcomes.
Toomelah is a challenging yet rewarding place to take your career even further. With industry-leading safety standards, you can focus on doing your best work alongside skilled colleagues while gaining job training to progress your career.

The position’s role and key focus areas are:

• Management and supervision of a multi-disciplinary team, including performance monitoring and corrective counselling.
• Facilitate community participation in the community’s economic, social, cultural and spiritual development, with a primary focus on activities that enhance health and well-being.
• Facilitate engagement between the community and external agencies as well as local Aboriginal community organisations where the need arises.
• Focus on community development in the Toomelah community from the perspectives of health and well-being, and community strengthening and resilience, and promote capacity building aligned with strengthening in governance.
• Strengthen linkages between the community and service providers.
• Facilitate community engagement through participation in inter-agency programs, activities and meetings that engage the Toomelah community to deliver services, develop projects and provide emergency responses.
• Revitalising and promoting Aboriginal languages and culture; creating opportunities and capacity; providing choice, and empowering Aboriginal people to exercise that choice; and providing the tools to help Aboriginal people to take responsibility for their own future.
• Local planning strategies and plans prepared in consultation with Toomelah Aboriginal community will build trust and tap into their unique local knowledge. This will empower the community to identify their own issues, strategic directions and solutions.

This position is full time; however, job share and/or part time arrangements will be considered.


What Sets You Apart: 
You have the ability to identify and act on opportunities for improvement in practice and develop and lead continuous improvement initiatives which will enhance service delivery and client/patient/consumer outcomes, ensuring professional responsibilities are met including engagement in ongoing education/ training, participation in regular professional practice supervision, and providing supervision to less experienced staff and students.

You’ll draw on your Health Experience, Cultural background and proven experience in operational support including management of all staff, mentorship, and supervision to ensure ongoing professional growth,  

You have good communication skills and the ability to problem solve issues as they arise within the new directions for the service to ensure appropriate notification and escalation of issues impacting on clinical/non-clinical practice and care delivery.

Your connection to community and culture, with the implicit understanding of how to support people within their kinship relationship of family, friends and land will be valuable in this role.


As a key partner in the development of Toomelah community economic and environmental future, the TCC will: 

• Be community representatives.
• Be the community’s contact point on all matters affecting the community.
• Think creatively about community-wide development.
• Honestly and comprehensively represent the interests of the community.
• Ensure that all considerations and decisions are transparent.
• Actively promote the interests and needs of the Toomelah Aboriginal community.
• Strategically guiding Government Agencies to be actively accountable and present in the community.

What We Can Offer You:
At Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), enjoy a career where you're challenged by interesting work and surrounded by spectacular locations. Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day:

Working with HNE Health gives you access to a great range of benefits:

• Sustainable Healthcare: Together towards zero
• Up to 12 allocated days off each year in addition to annual leave.
• 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part time employees)
• Superannuation contributions
• Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
• Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
• Discounted Private Health Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals. 

Need more information? 
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3) An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies. 
4) We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.