It provides a safe and hygienic place where people can inject.
Safe injecting room richmond jobs.
This position is responsible for supervising clients before during and after episodes of injecting.
This is a unique opportunity to become a part of the two year trial of victoria s first medically supervised injecting room msir at north richmond community health.
Work at the medically supervised injecting room.
Luke henriques gomes the guardian a u s t r a l i a n a s s o c i a.
But the solution has caused division among locals.
This is a unique opportunity to become a part of victoria s first medically supervised injecting room msir at north richmond victoria.
North richmond has been the hub of victoria s heroin trade for two decades and a safe injecting room was recommended by the coroner after a spate of drug related deaths in the area.
This position is responsible for supervising clients before during and after episodes of injecting.
Two community outreach workers for melbourne s first safe injecting room have been charged with drug trafficking.
The victorian government is trialling a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health site in north richmond melbourne.
The following positions are available.
With the high numbers of victorians losing their lives to drug related overdoses the medically supervised injecting room msir is a safety first medical approach focused on harm reduction.
The service was established for an initial two year trial period which will be extended for a further three years based on the evidence gathered in the initial period.
In late 2017 labor announced it would trial a medically supervised injecting room at the north richmond community health centre after decades of policy flip flops on the deeply divisive issue.
The department of health and human services is coordinating a trial of a medically supervised injecting room at north richmond community health.
North richmond community health is now seeking expressions of interest for registered nurses with a keen interest in harm reduction for both short and long term secondments at the medically supervised injecting room msir.