Company Profile
Galambila Aboriginal Health Service
Company Overview
Galambila Aboriginal Corporation (trading as Galambila Aboriginal Health Service) is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service located in Coffs Harbour, NSW.
We are a leading provider of high quality, culturally relevant, comprehensive primary health and related care services. Presently we are reviewing our opportunities for enhancing whole of practice care and continuum of care approaches including embedding our Clinical Governance Framework and our Cultural Integrity Framework.
Our staff are key to improving the health and wellbeing outcomes for our clients. We currently employ 8 part time General Practitioners, 3 Registered Nurses, 12 Aboriginal Health Workers which includes AHW Practitioners and Health Promotions, 1 Clinical Consultant Pharmacist, 2 Social Workers, and 1 part time Psychologist. Galambila hosts several specialist clinics with specialists seeing clients on site, working alongside our primary health team to deliver comprehensive health services.
Galambila serves the Aboriginal communities of Coffs Harbour, Urunga, Bellingen, Woolgoolga and provides outreach services at a number of sites and venues across the region. We also collaborate in service delivery across in the broader region with other communities.
Company History
Galambila commenced as a part time clinic (3 half days per week) in 1998. Galambila now provides direct care and support to over 3,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people living on Gumbaynggirr lands.
Today the clinic provides Aboriginal People access to a wide range of Multidisciplinary GP, Specialist and Allied Health Services, and now Dental services. The clinic assists many clients with referral to other specialist and allied services, provides patient transports to and from the clinic and to specialist services.
The clinic now enjoys dedicated accommodation through purchase of the previous Coffs Harbour Primary and Extended Care Site. Funding on a recurrent basis has been secured to expand services to the local community. Galambila became an incorporated Aboriginal Health Service in August of 2002 and transitioned to an Aboriginal Corporation in 2018. The Clinic Management Committee has been superseded by a Board of Directors, comprising elected community members with the partnership as a reference group. Galambila is now an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service with a continued expansion of education and training opportunities for community members.
Benefits
Additional leave for study and training, NAIDOC celebrations, and Christmas.
Galambila is a PBI organisation allowing for additional salary sacrifice to increase take home pay.
Galambila also offers reimbursement for study or conferences.
