Becoming an Indigenous Health Worker in Queensland

About this role

Indigenous Health Workers assist with the coordination and provision of health care delivery to Indigenous communities.

What you might do day-to-day in this job

Typical tasks for an Indigenous Health Worker include:

• maintaining health records and statistics
• acting as an advocate in the community they serve, and as a communicator and interpreter on behalf of clients and other health workers
• providing clinical functions, such as case management and follow-up, independently or in consultation with other health care providers
• providing health education to individual clients and staff in health facilities
• providing cultural education to persons outside the cultural community and life skills education to the community they serve
• providing counselling and referring clients to other health care providers where necessary.