Epidemiologist, Toxic Drug Crisis
3 weeks ago
**FNHA Overview**:
**About us**
The First Nations Health Authority is a diverse and transformational health organization of professional, innovative, and dedicated team members and leaders.
The first of its kind in Canada, FNHA works as a health-and-wellness partner with BC First Nations to support self-determination and decision-making to improve health outcomes. This role will provide you with the opportunity to work on the ongoing public health emergency related to toxic drug supply (overdose crisis) that has disproportionately impacted First Nations populations, conduct epidemiological and statistical analyses using linked administrative health and surveillance data, and gain fundamentals of First Nations data governance.
**Title**: Epidemiologist, Toxic Drug Crisis
**Contract**: Term to August 2025
**Hours**: 8:30am to 4:30pm
**Location**: Anywhere in BC (Remote or Hybrid, 1 day at the office per month/as required)
**Bargaining Unit**: PIPSC (Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada)
**About the role**
As the Epidemiologist, Toxic Drug Crisis, you will provide epidemiological analysis and advice to a variety of fields including population health, health and wellness indicators, health surveys, development of surveillance systems, research approaches, data analysis, and preparation of data for internal and external audiences. This position is primarily focused on the response to the Toxic Drug Crisis with a focus on supporting the prescribed safer supply evaluation.
**About you**
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Epidemiology or Statistics or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- Minimum 3 years of related experience
- Basic knowledge of First Nations traditions and etiquette.
- Knowledge of the Provincial Toxic Drug Public Health Emergency, harm reduction, and safer supply
- Knowledge of First Nations perspectives on health, wellness, and health information governance.
- Knowledge of concepts, theories, techniques, and principles of epidemiology.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Knowledge of computer programming techniques is necessary to participate in the development of databases and to write programs to perform statistical analyses
- Ability to do analysis with computer software such as Microsoft Office, SPSS, STATA, or SAS/R.
- Ability to plan, design, and construct epidemiological and statistical analyses and surveys.
Please refer to Job Specification section of the Job Description for more details.
**Working at FNHA**
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
- Municipal pension plan with an employer contribution of 9.31% after eligibility period
- Vacation and sick leave credits plus 1 personal day, 1 volunteer day, and 14 holidays including National Indigenous People’s Day and National Day of Truth and Reconciliation
- Access to group health benefits and a Health Care Spending Account through Canada Life on day 1 of employment
- And more
The First Nations Health Authority is committed to respecting diversity within our workforce; preference will be given to individuals with Indigenous ancestry (First Nations, Inuit, Métis).
Leading with culture, all FNHA employees complete San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training. We support our family to be leaders in wellness and all staff members develop a yearly wellness plan as part of their performance partnership and goal-setting.
As a health and wellness organization, the FNHA has aligned with the Provincial Public Health Order released on October 14, 2021. We have a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for all employees at First Nations Health Authority. This policy requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If selected for employment, you will be required to provide proof of vaccination by providing a copy of your BC Vaccination Card Passport with the QR code.
**How to apply**
**Closing date**: July 7th, 2023 (at 23:59)
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