Where excellence meets opportunity - discover your next chapter with cohealth

• Part time, Fixed term role
• Based in Footscray
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Community Health Nurse will use multi-disciplinary, assertive, integrated and flexible care approaches which addresses immediate health and support needs, coordination and consumer directed care planning. The role involves supporting consumers who find accessing mainstream health care settings difficult.

The successful candidate will work both outreach shifts and on site at Healthworks, on a set roster.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your duties include:

• Undertake assertive street outreach within a multidisciplinary team.
• Provide nursing assessments to people who present with a variety of support needs including alcohol and other drug use, mental health, wound care, NSP access and overdose response.
• Undertake community engagement, development activities and tasks which reduces stigma and promotes community safety and wellbeing.
• Support and assist clients to understand and navigate health and other community services within cohealth and externally including housing, social inclusion and recreation services and other recovery and clinical treatment and recovery services including pharmacotherapy.
• Maximise opportunities to provide information and education on safer drug use, BBV and STI treatment and prevention, drug overdose prevention of and response.
• Contribute to and participate in health education, health promotion programs and research aimed at improving health and wellbeing of the community in accordance with program development and evaluation strategies in response to community needs

What cohealth offers:

• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Salary packaging to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• A significantly discounted fitness membership with unlimited access to over 290 facilities for you and your family. To find out more click here
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Tertiary qualifications in Nursing and eligibility to join the relevant professional body, AHPRA
• Community nursing experience
• Experience working with, and an awareness of the issues that affect, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people from marginalised communities
• Demonstrated ability to work with people who are disadvantaged and are experiencing chronic health issues, including rough sleeping and substance dependence

Application Process

To download the PD, and to apply for this job go to: https://cohealthcareers.org.au/Current-Jobs & enter ref code: 6842345.

Applications close 05 January 2026 at 10pm.

You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter as well as address the key selection criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Renee Kelly renee.kelly@cohealth.org.au

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.