Nicole Rootsey
Child & Family Health Nurse
Nicole is a Child and Family Health Nurse and Midwife, who also works as the Team Leader for the Child and Family Health and Midwifery team at AWAHS. Nicole loves her role at AWAHS as she gets to work with parents and carers so they can help their children reach their full potential and support them in their parenting role. Nicole provides health checks, immunisations and health education for families. Nicole loves working and learning alongside the team and community that is AWAHS and feels she has scored the best job ever working with the youngest members of the AWAHS community. In her spare time Nicole loves being outdoors, hanging out with friends and family and riding her bike.
Paula Harrison
Child & Family Health Nurse
Paula is the Child & Family Health Nurse here at AWAHS and has been here since 2013. Prior to starting at AWAHS, Paula spent 12 years working in a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land and has been a registered nurse since 1995. Paula works with families with children under 5 years of age, providing health checks, immunisations and parent education as well as social & emotional support. Paula loves her job here at AWAHS because she loves working in Aboriginal health and with children and “it is an amazing feeling to help families reach their full potential”. In her spare time, Paula enjoys spending time with her 2 sons.
Jocelyn Wright
Ngarrindjeri
Aboriginal Child & Family Health Outreach
Jocelyn is the Aboriginal Child & Family Health Outreach worker here at AWAHS and has been here since 2013, she is qualified in Community Services and Case Management. She is responsible for all post-natal social support with the family, always being at the centre of their journey, working alongside Nicole and Paula, the Child and Family Health nurses. An important part of her role, is attending home visits with the nurses to check on newborns and children in the community and also running the Boorai Bundles, mums and bubs group. Also supporting family at risk of, or involved with child protection. Jocelyn loves her job here at AWAHS because she has the chance to help families make positive changes in their lives to move forward. In her spare time, Jocelyn enjoys spending time with her family & friends, having people over for BBQ’s and dinners, camping, reading, knitting and shopping.