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Environmental Health Officer (QLD)

Team Leader Environmental Health Service (WaSH) (QLD)

Environmental Health Officer / Environmental Health Scientist - Cairns (QLD)

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER (QLD)

If you’re seeking meaningful work, professional growth, and an unbeatable lifestyle, Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service offers it all. Working with Cairns Public Health Unit, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team that thrives on connection, innovation, and delivering care that changes lives. You will develop skills and strategies to educate and promote contemporary environmental health concepts, while providing competent environmental health advice to internal and external stakeholders.

About us:
Cairns Public Health Unit (CPHU) supports the health and wellbeing of communities across Tropical North Queensland. The unit delivers public health regulatory services on behalf of the Department of Health. CPHU works to prevent and respond to communicable, vaccinepreventable, and environmental health risks through activities such as outbreak management, immunisation support, and vector control. CPHU works in close partnership with health services, government agencies, local councils, and communities to achieve positive public health outcomes.

The outer western region of our service includes extremely remote communities. Cairns Hospital is the only major referral hospital in Far North Queensland and also provides care for people from Cape York and the Torres Strait.

Were committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by'providing high quality acute health care services.

Location	Medical Services – Cairns Public Health Unit
Type
Salary/Remuneration	$3030.00 - $4453.50
Duties/ Responsibilities	Demonstrate expertise, skills and knowledge, commensurate with the level of experience, to undertake routine environmental health services and incident response, and implement projects and research, while under the supervision and professional guidance of a more senior environmental health officer. Provide routine advice on environmental health matters to internal and external stakeholders, commensurate with the level of experience. Collaborate with partners in addressing environmental health issues in culturally and linguistically diverse groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations to enhance population health outcomes utilising various communication methods.
Qualifications / Selection criteria	POSITION DESCRIPTION
How to apply	APPLY NOW
Contact	Amy Coco – 07 4226 5555

Applications close at Wednesday 27 May 2026

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER (QLD)

About Us

Public health focuses on the health and wellbeing of populations, rather than of individuals. The Tropical Public Health Services (TPHS) aims to minimise the morbidity and mortality from communicable and vaccine-preventable diseases, and environmental health hazards thereby:

protecting the health of the population, and preventing disease and illness. The Tropical Public Health Services (TPHS) fulfils the public health regulatory services on behalf of the Department of Health to ensure sound public health standards are maintained in communities.

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

Our values were developed by our staff, patients and community. They guide our work and actions every day. Our staff are part of the community we serve. We believe that we can improve health outcomes by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of their local health services.

Location	Medical Services – Cairns Public Health Unit
Type
Salary/Remuneration	$3030.00 - $4453.50 per fortnight
Duties/ Responsibilities	Develop skills and strategies to educate and promote contemporary environmental health concepts and practice including healthcare facility water risk management to internal and external stakeholders, under the supervision of a more senior environmental health officer. Work within a multi-disciplinary team, including other environmental health officers, to deliver an environmental health response to outbreaks and incidents to address specific public health issues. Engage in continual learning and development of environmental health practice knowledge and expertise through active learning within the team and by engaging in ongoing, relevant professional development activities.
Qualifications / Selection criteria	POSITION DESCRIPTION
How to apply	APPLY NOW
Contact	Amy Coco – 07 4226 5555

Applications close at Tuesday 26 May 2026

TEAM LEADER ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICE (WASH) (QLD)

Join the collaborative and forward-thinking Cairns Public Health Unit at CHHHS and play a key role in improving health outcomes across regional, rural, and remote communities. As the Team Leader Environmental Health Service (WaSH) you will provide operational leadership for the Environmental Health Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) program, supporting the delivery of high‑quality environmental health services that protect and improve public health outcomes across the Cairns and Hinterland region.

About us: The Cairns Public Health Unit focuses on the health and wellbeing of populations, rather than of individuals. CPHU aims to minimise the morbidity and mortality from communicable and vaccine-preventable diseases, and environmental health hazards thereby: CPHU fulfils the public health regulatory services on behalf of the Department of Health to ensure sound public health standards are maintained in communities.

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers an area of 142,900 square kilometres. We go as far as Tully in the south, Cow Bay in the north and Croydon in the west.

Location	Cairns Public Health Unit – Cairns
Type	Full Time
Salary/Remuneration	$5557.50 - $5798.90 per fortnight
Duties/ Responsibilities	Demonstrate specialist environmental health clinical knowledge, skills and risk-based decision making to manage the day to day delivery of environmental health services, across multiple specialty areas and across multiple health services and/or multiple sites, to develop evidence-based options and implement appropriate interventions and enforcement strategies, with minimal supervision. Operationally manage a team of environmental health officers and/or a multi- disciplinary team, including resource allocation to deliver environmental health programs, projects and research across multiple-Health Services and/or multiple- sites. Use specialist environmental health clinical skills and expertise gained from significant professional development activities, post graduate education or formal qualifications and experience to manage the implementation of novel, complex or critical programs, interventions and / or investigations for breaches of relevant public health legislation Provide high level specialist clinical environmental health advice and prepare comprehensive reports and submissions to the Manager Environmental Health and key internal and external stakeholders on a daily basis. Represent environmental health on area and state-wide committees as delegated.
Qualifications / Selection criteria	Position Description
How to apply	Click here to apply
Contact	Andrew D'Addona - 07 4226 5555

Applications close Monday 18 May 2026

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICER / ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENTIST - CAIRNS (QLD)

Make every day different by joining our Environmental Health WaSH. We have current vacancies as an Environmental Health Scientist and Environmental Health Officer. This unit focuses on the health and wellbeing of populations, rather than of individuals. Cairns Public Health Unit (CPHU) aims to minimise the morbidity and mortality from communicable and vaccine-preventable diseases, and environmental health hazards. We are looking for persons committed to the environmental scientific side of health, come join us.

About us
We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services. Cairns Public Health Unit (CPHU) protects and enhances the health of the Tropical Far North Queensland community.

Location	Medical Services – Cairns
Type	Full Time
Salary/Remuneration	$3030.00 - $4453.50 per fortnight
Duties/ Responsibilities	Work extensively in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities with limited direct supervision. Demonstrated ability to work autonomously in remote settings to deliver routine Environmental Health WaSH program services with a strong focus on drinking water. Collaborate with partners in addressing environmental health issues in culturally and linguistically diverse groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations to enhance population health outcomes utilising various communication methods.
Qualifications / Selection criteria	Position Description
How to apply	Click here to apply
Contact	Chris Blake – 07 4226 5555

Applications close Monday 18 May 2026

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