Coledale Health and Education Clinic
The Coledale Health and Education Clinic is a multidisciplinary primary health care service, focused on offering students a unique clinical placement. The clinic emphasises community engagement, centred client care, leadership and interprofessional practice.
The Coledale community is located in West Tamworth, it has a high Indigenous population and is considered a low socio-economic area. Members of the community attend the clinic for a diverse range of physical, mental and psychosocial concerns.
UNE Student Placements
For students attending the Coledale Health and Education Clinic, their daily clinical experiences are varied and may include:
- Aboriginal healthcare and outreach services
- crisis management and referral
- chronic disease management
- health assessment and triage
- provision of education
- healthcare management
- provision of care across the lifespan
- Child and Family health checks
For more information on placements at Coledale, contact the Coordinator for Clinical/Field Learning. For more information on Coledale clinical placements, please contact nursingplacements@une.edu.au
