Mi'kmaq Indigenous Health Consultant- Designated

7 months ago

Dartmouth, Canada Nova Scotia Health Authority Full time

**Req ID: 178087**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location: Provincial Zone, Public Health Services - Burnside**
**Department: PH Strat
- Mi'Kmaq Indigenous Health Consultant**
**Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)**
**Status**:Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date: 17-May-24**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
The incumbent provides leadership and guidance to achieve and continuously improve culturally safe and appropriate health services for Mi’kmaq and Indigenous peoples. Essential to this end is enabling the development and support of a culturally safe, diverse and inclusive workplace. The Consultant leads planning and implementation of activities focused on cultural safety and liaises, facilitates connection with and supports Mi’kmaq and Indigenous Health leads within Nova Scotia.

The Consultant applies Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the planning, implementation and evaluation of policies, programs and activities with the aim of enhancing access to high quality, culturally safe and appropriate services for Indigenous peoples. They will also work across portfolios to ensure workplace policies and strategies support enhanced representation of Mi’kmaq and Indigenous Health Leads in addition to supporting respectful and safe working environments.

The Consultant engages with Mi’kmaq and Indigenous Health leads, communities and organizations serving Indigenous people to understand and act on improvement of health outcomes that are aligned with Mi’kmaw and Indigenous needs. Building on the existing network of partnership tables within the health sector as well as with community, government, academic, education, research and business and community partners to incorporate promising practices in the development of resources and structures necessary to promote diversity in health and employment within NSHA.

The Consultant will support diversity, equity and social inclusion activities with NSHA that are specific to Mi’kmaq and Indigenous communities and collaborate with other portfolios that support under-represented and/or diverse communities and work to address health inequities.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Undergraduate degree in Allied Health field, Public Administration, Health Services Administration, Business Administration or relevant areas of study.
- Five years’ of related experience or a Master’s degree plus three years’ experience.
- Significant knowledge of Indigenous peoples across Nova Scotia and the Maritimes.
- Experience as a health professional is an asset.
- Demonstrated commitment to social justice, cultural and structural competence, and initiatives dedicated to the welfare of Indigenous peoples.
- Demonstrated experience in project management, coordination, facilitation, community engagement and qualitative research.
- Strong writing skills with demonstrated competency writing synthesized literature reviews, policy analysis, briefing notes and reports.
- Demonstrated planning, organization and time management skills. Ability to deal with competing priorities.
- Demonstrated critical thinking with demonstrated ability to assess and anticipate future needs, potential problems, directions and development for all aspects of strategic, financial, and human resource management.
- Strong communications skills and ability to develop and sustain coalitions, alliances, and partnerships with the members of the health care sector and external agencies. Community development experiences an asset.
- Ability to communicate and build coalitions effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders using a variety of methods.
- Innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with priority communities.
- Demonstrated high standards of ethics, integrity, respect, accountability and upholding the public interest, and ability to use them effectively in decision-making.

**About You Continued**:

- Leadership skills consisting of building a vision, team building, conflict resolution, goal setting, coaching, mentoring, delegation, change-leadership.
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