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Health Promotion Officer

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Health Promotion Officers promote healthy living, educate communities about health risks, and collaborate with agencies for social change.

  • This role has a low level of AI exposure. Core skills such as adaptability, social intelligence, and complex physical tasks remain beyond the capabilities of current AI.
AI exposure data adapted from Felten, Raj & Seamans (2021). Shortage data sourced from Jobs and Skills Australia (2024).

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The average salary for Health Promotion Officers working in Australia right now is $82,500 per annum. Increase your earning capacity by obtaining post-graduate qualifications in public health and health promotion.

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There are 4,700 Health Promotion Officers currently working in Australia. They are employed by community health organisations, NGOs, charities, universities, schools, and government agencies.

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Health Promotion Officers are university-qualified and have a working knowledge of the health systems in Australia. You could launch your career with a Bachelor of Science (Public Health), Bachelor of Health Promotion, Bachelor of Psychological Science (Health and Wellbeing), or Bachelor of Public Health. Alternately, if you are already degree-qualified (or an experienced nurse, doctor, or allied health professional), grab your Master of Public Health or Master of Health Promotion for a rewarding career change. There are also pathways with a Bachelor of Nutrition or a Bachelor of Community Services.

Source: Australian Government Labour Market Insights 2023

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Health Promotion Officer careers

Health Promotion Officers are community-based professionals who promote healthy living to the general public. They carry out community education programs on disability, disease, and health-related issues while raising awareness of the risk factors of alcohol consumption, drug use, smoking, eating processed foods, unprotected sex, sedentary lifestyle, and other harmful behaviours.

As a Health Promotion Officer you could be collaborating with First Nations community leaders to identify key health issues and health promotion needs, planning a health promotion event for isolated seniors living in rural zones, delivering information sessions on the management of chronic disease with improved nutrition and lifestyle choices, updating databases and record-keeping systems, or writing a report on the metrics and outcomes of a recent program.

Health Promotion Officers also work closely with government agencies to ensure their programs and strategies drive social and environmental change.