Administrative roles
As an administrative officer in public health, you’ll use your skills and experience in public health units and services that promote and protect health and prevent disease.
You may have vocational education and training, university qualifications, relevant experience, or a combination of all 3 that you'll use to support the essential public health functions.
What you’ll do
You might work in:
- business services and administration
- project management
- health policy and planning
- communications
- health information management
- data analysis – helping epidemiologists manage health data.
Complementary technical and assistant roles
As a member of the complementary public health workforce, you’ll use your technical and operational skills and experience to support public health units to deliver public health services and programs.
What you’ll do
You might work as:
- an environmental health technician – undertaking routine environmental health technical services, including assisting in public health incident responses and implementing projects under the professional supervision of an environmental health officer.
- a vector control officer – performing a range of mosquito monitoring and control, and pest management activities.
- a First Nations environmental health worker - working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to improve their health, including routine environmental health services and implementing projects under supervision within environmental health teams.
Qualifications
The qualifications required for each position may vary, depending on what the role is expected to do.
In some cases, vocational education and training (VET) qualifications may be required to apply. However in some situations, you may be supported to study and complete a VET qualification while you are employed as a trainee or cadet.
Relevant VET qualifications may include:
- a certificate II, III or IV in Indigenous Environmental Health for First Nations environmental health workers
- a certificate II in Sampling and Measurement, a certificate III in Laboratory Skills (with electives relevant to environmental health), or a diploma in Environmental Health for environmental health technicians
- a certificate III in Population Health
- a certificate IV in Government Investigations.
A pest management technician licence is required for vector control officers.
Wage rates
Your wage rate depends on your employment stream and classification.
How to apply
We advertise all our jobs on the Queensland Government SmartJobs website. We also have information about the application process.