Supporting clients is an important part of your job as a Primary health care worker. Providing social and emotional support includes:

Whether you work in a rural, remote or urban service, being a Primary health care worker can be a very rewarding and sometimes very stressful job. As a remote health care worker, helping our people with mental health, grog, yarndi and other drug issues doesn’t always stop when the clinic closes.

Part of being a good health care worker means knowing how to support and help others manage stress. It also means learning to see when your own stress is building and having a range of ways to deal with it.