Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker
What the work is
Promotes community health through implementing culturally safe educational programs and assisting outreach health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Supports or undertakes health assessments
- Implements community health education initiatives
- Develops and evaluates primary health care programs for clients
- Maintains clients' health records
- Supports clients' awareness of, and participation in, necessary health care
- Participates in outreach health services
- Provides cultural education to Health Professionals who are not of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a community health clinic and outreach van serving a fictional remote and regional area. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- An Elder who avoided the clinic for years walks in because someone trusted them
- You catch a hearing problem in a child early and the family gets support in time
- The whole team learns something new about the community from you
Hard days
- Long drives to outreach days when the roads are rough or flooded
- Being the only person in the room who knows the family and the community
- Explaining to a team why a plan will not work for a client without it sounding like blame
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 441932, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.