Job offers for Aboriginal health graduates

Dan Moss

06Jan09

TWO newly graduated Aboriginal health workers in Alice Springs have already been offered jobs.

Raymond Campbell and Dwayne Pearce were the only ones to graduate from a class of 27 across the NT.
They are now qualified to give injections and advice on preventative medicine, nutrition and to give antibiotics when working on remote communities or clinics.
Mr Campbell, 34, said he wanted to move on from his eight years in mental health and suicide prevention by learning new skills.
He said: "I'm looking to go into nutrition and education, anything that will help me and help my people."
He said he was related by extended kinship to "the majority of Arrernte people in Central Australia".
Mr Pearce, 35, came from Tasmania 10 years ago to rekindle his heritage and discover his family.
His background is Western Arrernte but he lived in Tasmania until he was 25.
He moved on from working at the Alice Springs Civic Centre as a caretaker to give himself a challenge and to find out about his heritage.
Clinical Educator Natalie Colmer is proud of her graduates.
She said: "It gives them amazing scope.
"They've already had plenty of job offers."
 

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