Employment

Nunkuwarrin Yunti works to promote and deliver improvement in the health and wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the greater metropolitan area of Adelaide and to advance their social, cultural and economic status.

Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia Inc places a strong focus on a client centred approach to the delivery of services and a collaborative working culture to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.

Benefits of working with Nunkuwarrin Yunti

Nunkuwarrin Yunti has its own Enterprise Agreement. To view it, click on the link below in the related resources or click here.

Recognising that our people are the key to our ongoing success we offer the following benefits:

  • Generous Salary Sacrifice
  • Extra Leave entitlements
  • Good Work-Life Balance Career
  • Development Opportunities
  • Family Friendly
  • In-house Training Opportunities

Child Safe Organisation

Nunkuwarrin Yunti is a Child Safe Organisation.

All positions at Nunkuwarrin Yunti are ‘prescribed positions’ in line with our Child Safe Organisation policy.

As a result, all employees, volunteers and students on placement will require a valid Working with Children Check on appointment and throughout employment and a National Police Certificate no more than 12 months old prior to commencement.

Working for an Aboriginal Health Service

If you have never worked for an Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisation (ACCHO), then you might find it a bit different to where you have worked before.

Nunkuwarrin Yunti works to promote and deliver improvement in the health and wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the greater metropolitan area of Adelaide and to advance their social, cultural and economic status. The Organisation places a strong focus on a client centred approach to the delivery of services and a collaborative working culture to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.

Increasingly, there is recognition that the social determinants of health have had and do have a major impact upon the health of Aboriginal people. Innovative solutions are required.

The following skills and knowledge of all positions within Nunkuwarrinn Yunti:

  • a demonstrated understanding of the contemporary issues facing Aboriginal people and the impacts these issues have on Indigenous Australian societies and cultures; and
  • a demonstrated ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal people.

Being attune to the needs of the Aboriginal community serves to ensure that Nunkuwarrin Yunti’s programs and initiatives remain effective and provide some expression to Aboriginal people’s right to self-determination.

Application Process

All interested candidates to any promoted vacancy are requested to submit your application through the link in the advertisement.

Privacy Statement for Job Candidates

All information gathered from external candidates as part of the recruitment process at Nunkuwarrin Yunti is protected under the provisions of the Australian Privacy Principles (APP).

Information pertaining to existing employees are not covered under the APP as employee information is exempted, however as a principal information is only gathered to meet the primary purpose of screening and selecting prospective candidates for available vacancies or potential roles that may match skills, experience, and aptitude of the candidate.

Nunkuwarrin Yunti retains records of all candidate applications for a period of 12 months within the ELMO HR Information Management System.

The ELMO system enables the creation of a Talent Search feature to assist the organisation to identify potential candidates to fill other vacancies that may be available currently or in the future.

Should an applicant not wish to have this information retained in the system they are able to request this information is removed by emailing hr@nunku.org.au