Indigenous Student Wellness Navigator

3 weeks ago

Waterloo, Canada University of Waterloo Full time

Overview:
**Term: 1 year**

The Indigenous Student Wellness Navigator (ISWN) is accountable to a Manager, Counselling Services for the provision of direct individual and a group wellness programs and services, as well as traditional healing and wellness practices for Indigenous Students. This position has dotted line reporting to the Office of Indigenous Relations to ensure ongoing collaboration on traditional healing and wellness practices for Indigenous students as well as proactive support for the ISNW. The ISWN will assist Indigenous students with navigating health & mental health services on and off campus, ensuring access to and provision of culturally appropriate health care services and link students with the health and community supports required to transition back to community upon graduation, where appropriate. This position also acts as a cultural resource for health care providers working with Indigenous students. Ultimately, this position underpins our mission which focuses on supporting and promoting academic success, student and campus mental health, as well psychological wellness and safety among members of a diverse and global Waterloo community. This position also underpins the mission of the Office of Indigenous Relations to decolonize and Indigenize the University of Waterloo.

**Responsibilities**:
Clinical Services - supporting mental health and wellness, as well as academic and personal success of Indigenous Students
- Individual appointments with students to identify their goals and create a care plan
- Conduct risk of harm assessments
- Support students with navigating and accessing health and mental health services on and off campus
- Provide support before, during and after appointments where appropriate
- Help connect students with cultural community on and off campus
- Facilitate and coordinate the delivery of traditional healing and wellness programs and services with individual students or with groups
- Responding to students in crisis
- Clinical case notes and report writing
- Discharge planning and referral completion
- Design, facilitate and evaluate seminars sessions on various topics related to Indigenous wellness
- Design, facilitate and evaluate training to student leaders and other key stakeholders across campus on various topics, including well-being or culturally specific wellness workshops such as medicine wheel teachings
- The partnership for the mental health, health and wellness, well-being and safety of the campus community includes active collaboration and teaming with a focus on client issues of shared concern
- Attend a minimum of monthly supervision meetings with Manager, Counselling Services
- Attend a minimum of one monthly meeting per month with consultant from Indigenous community on campus, as assigned by OIR

Wholistic Wellness Practice
- When required, provide cultural teachings to students
- Holds space for Indigenous student group programming related to wellness (workshops, circles, and other wellness activities)
- Provides resources for and directs students to areas designated to meditate, smudge, and access medicines in Campus Wellness spaces
- Maintains the medicine bundle/smudging materials for Campus Wellness

Advocacy - the Navigator[MI1] is an advocate for and supports Indigenous students’ academic success and personal learning.
- Engage in internal and external partnerships with local Indigenous community supports and on campus Indigenous resources such as the Office of Indigenous Relations and the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre to build a network of support for Indigenous students
- Identify Elders to call on for support with Indigenous students
- Facilitate training opportunities for various stakeholders around Indigenous wholistic wellness supports
- Collaborate with Indigenous and Non-Indigenous campus partners to make both the wellness and academic journey of students, a culturally safe experience
- Consult with key campus support services (e.g., Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre, AccessAbility Services, Student Success Office) related to students’ personal and academic needs
- Collaborate and consult with faculty, including individual faculty members, the Associate Deans’ offices, and academic support areas in the interest of students’ academic success, retention and graduation

Relationship Building - The Navigator builds a network of colleagues and establishes relationships with multiple community services.
- Develop relationships and partnerships across campus and with local FNMI communities
- Develop relationship with the third party sponsored organization for students when needed
- In collaboration with other stakeholders, help create relationships from an Indigenous perspective/service need
- Establish multiple connections to local community services, organizations, knowledge keepers, Elders, campus partners, to better serve Indigenous students

Intern Supervision and Training
- Under the direction of their Manager

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