As a member of Medical Entomology, Tropical Public Health Services (Cairns), the VCO will liaise with stakeholders, government agencies, and community members in relation to Queensland health's mosquito management program.
About the role:
Perform routine and emergency vector control of mosquitoes. Control may include interior applications of insecticide, premise-to-premise inspections, servicing mosquito traps, and treatment or removal of mosquito breeding sites. Frequent trips will be required potentially at short notice. Weekends and after hours work will be required during disease outbreaks.
Demonstrate ability to interact sensitively, effectively and professionally with people from diverse cultural, socioeconomic and education backgrounds
Collaboratively participate in the design, implementation and evaluation of components of single and/or multi-strategy public health interventions that reflect the needs of stakeholders and partners to deliver priority population health outcomes within available resources.
Translate public health evidence into information that health workers, policy makers, partners and the public can understand and use.
This position requires application of chemicals to control mosquitoes. A current pest management technician license would be well regarded.
As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:
Generous superannuation
Salary packaging
Annual incremental increases
Career training and development
Flexible work arrangements
Wellness programs
Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.
For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterlandThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
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