Victorian Aboriginal Health Service

General practitioners - we want you! 🧑⚕️ VAHS has expressions of interest open for qualified GPs to join our team across our Fitzroy, Preston, and South Morang sites 🩺 In addition to providing a variety of medical services, you will support social, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing for Mob 🖤💛❤️ In return, you'll have access to salary packaging and the opportunity to make a real impact for better health in the Victorian Aboriginal Community. What's more, the Health of the Nation 2024 report found GPs who work at ACCHOs have a job satisfaction rate of 88% (compared with 73% for Australian GPs overall), the best work-life balance, and lowest rate of burnout, so we're not just tooting our own horn when we say VAHS is an awesome place to work! 🙌 Find out more - https://bit.ly/3Xqoi9L

WINNERS 👏🏆 Our Preventative Health Unit’s Flip The Vape campaign has scooped up a #VPHAwards in the Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing category 🖤💛❤️ “Using behavioural science, co-design with 11 ACCHOs and 11 Aboriginal ambassadors, and rollout across youth-first platforms like TikTok and Snapchat, the campaign flipped negative messaging into bold, empowering storytelling,” the judging criteria said. “It reached over one million young people, sparked a quitting movement, and set a new standard for culturally relevant, community-driven public health campaigns that will soon be extended to more states across Australia.” Thank you to our TIS workers across the state, @moworks and our dedicated ambassadors for your vital role in this wind and more importantly, Community-led preventative health campaign 🚭

Evidence shows that it is Aboriginal organisations that continue to do most of the hard work to support Aboriginal children and families involved in Youth Justice and Out of Home Care systems #CommunityControl #SelfDetermination https://lnkd.in/gYtTQsfH

We're hiring a medical receptionist to join our South Morang team! ☎️ If you are interested in a medical administration position, are a people person, and want to contribute to an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation in a role that genuinely makes a difference, check out the position description - https://bit.ly/4o7cF26 This is a casual role and is open to Mob only 🖤💛❤️ If you're interested, send your cover letter and resume to employment@vahs.org.au by Sunday 7 December 📆

Evidence shows that it is Aboriginal organisations that continue to do most of the hard work to support Aboriginal children and families involved in Youth Justice and Out of Home Care systems #CommunityControl #SelfDetermination https://lnkd.in/gYtTQsfH

#CommunityControl #SelfDetermination #Prevention #EarlyIntervention Joint Council identifies the critical need to strengthen oversight for Aboriginal children in Out of Home Care https://lnkd.in/gDvJKxXQ

VAHS' Preventative Health Unit The Koori Way are keeping busy with term 4 school visits 🏫 After the successful launch of the postcard activity at recent Community events, the team is bringing it to schools, most recently, at WORAWA ABORIGINAL COLLEGE ✉️ Students each wrote their own personal message to the tobacco industry, telling them they won't be their future customer, and to stop killing Mob with their product 🚭 The Koori Way then sends these postcards to industry, inundating them with thousands of messages to hold them to account 📮 This is just one way we are doing Community engagement with a difference 🖤💛❤️

📆 SAVE THE DATE The VAHS AGM will be held next Friday, 28 November from 10am at Epping Mantra 🧑⚖️ All VAHS Members are invited to attend. If you're not a member yet but would like to be, you can apply with us on the day. We hope to see you there 🖤💛❤️

📢 WE'RE HIRING! 📢 If you have always wanted to work for an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and truly make a difference, VAHS is recruiting in the following roles: 🧠Child Pschiatrist (Preston based): https://bit.ly/3LzPAYp 🩺 Registered Nurse (South Morang based): https://bit.ly/48abTwx 🧑⚕️Aboriginal Health Practitioner) (South Morang based, identified position): https://bit.ly/47NuUFb 🧑🎓 Social and Emotional Wellbeing Traineeships x2 (Preston based, identified positions): https://bit.ly/4hT8PrQ To apply for any of these positions, send your resume and cover letter to employment@vahs.org.au by Sunday 30 November 📆

🏆WINNER WINNER 🏆 VAHS' Preventative Health Unit, in collaboration with Mo Works has WON a Creative Victoria Premier's Design Award in the Communication Design category for #FlipTheVape🥇 "While Flip The Vape is a public health campaign, it also exemplifies key principles of circular and sustainable design... to serve as a long-term, adaptable platform rather than a one-off communication effort," the judging criteria read. Flip The Vape beat out finalists including Nike, Museums Victoria, and Lifeblood. Read more: https://bit.ly/4nUaGhF