North Richmond Community Health
Simone Heald has a strong background in healthcare administration, with their most recent position as Chief Executive Officer at North Richmond Community Health since 2023. Prior to that, they served as CEO at Sunraysia Community Health Services from 2016 to 2023. Simone also has experience as Director of Nursing at Ramsay Health Care from 2009 to 2016.
Simone Heald's education history includes a General Nursing Certificate from Bendigo Base Hospital (1985-1989), a Midwifery Certificate from Mildura Base Hospital (1992-1993), a Graduate Diploma of Childbirth Education from Birth International (1994-1997), a Graduate Diploma of Adolescent Health and Welfare from University of Melbourne (2001-2004), a Masters of Business Administration from Deakin University (2015-2016), a Masters Health and Human Services Management from Deakin University (2016-2018), and a Graduate degree from Australian Institute of Company Directors (completed in 2018).
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North Richmond Community Health
North Richmond Community Health began supporting the Richmond community on Wurundjeri land in 1974. Then called the North Richmond Family Care Centre, it was an organisation built to support the diverse needs of the 4,000 strong community members of the Langdon Park Ministry of Housing estate. A group of progressive doctors approached the estate’s community-led Tenants Union in the early 1970s, and together they came up with the idea of a health centre that didn’t just provide vital medical services, but also fostered and supported the community. Since it was opened, North Richmond Community Health has been a place for people of all linguistic backgrounds, physical, emotional and mental abilities, faiths and cultures. For 40 years, the community has come to our centre to meet, receive care, seek advice, socialise and celebrate. In 1994, we received funding from the Victorian Department of Human Services to share its knowledge across the state, and the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH) was formed. In the last 21 years, CEH has continued to develop their expertise in health and wellbeing, human rights, cultural competence and health literacy. North Richmond Community Health’s current building opened in late 2012. At that time, North Richmond Community Health was given the honour of an Aboriginal name by Wurundjeri Senior Elder Doreen Garvey-Wandin: Wulempuri-Kertheba, which translates from Woi wurrung as ‘staying healthy together’. As an organisation, we pride ourselves on our commitment to working with refugees, asylum seekers, newly-arrived migrants, people of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who inject drugs and people of all socio-economic backgrounds. We are constantly reiterating that commitment and developing it. North Richmond Community Health has a long history, with many relationships in the community going back 40 years. We look forward to many more years of learning, working and building healthier communities.