Indigenous Health and Wellness Promoter and

2 days ago

London, Canada Western University Full time

**About Western**:
Since 1878, Western University has been committed to serving our communities through the pursuit of academic excellence and by providing students, faculty, and community members with life-long opportunities for intellectual, social, and cultural growth. We seek excellent students, faculty, and staff to join us in what has become known as the "Western Experience" - an opportunity to contribute to a better world through the development of new knowledge, new abilities, new connections, and new ways to make a difference.

**About Us**:
Western’s Office of Indigenous Initiatives leads system-wide change required to advance truth and reconciliation efforts, achieve equitable outcomes for Indigenous peoples, and implement Western’s Indigenous Strategic Plan. The Office is committed to building and strengthening relationships with Indigenous communities locally, provincially, nationally and internationally, and fostering an academic environment, where all students, staff, faculty and community members experience the university as a welcoming, supportive, culturally safe environment in which Indigenous languages, ways of knowing, being and doing are respected and supported.
- The Office’s priority areas are:_
- strategic planning and implementation
- communications and reporting
- community engagement
- policy development and practice
- space planning and management
- curriculum and training development
- student affairs, access and recruitment strategies
- faculty and staff recruitment and retention strategies
- research and scholarship strategies.

Within the Office of Indigenous Initiatives is the Indigenous Student Centre, committed to supporting Indigenous students in reaching their highest potential through a safe space, wholistic, culturally relevant and strength-based programs, and services that foster Indigenous presence and inclusion, increasing access and retention.
- The priority areas for the Indigenous Student Centre are:_
- Indigenous cultural enrichment
- Indigenous student academic, financial and career support
- Indigenous youth and community outreach
- Indigenous orientation, transition, and retention
- Indigenization of recruitment programming and the student experience
- Culturally relevant support for well-being and mental health

**Responsibilities**:
**Key Accountabilities**
- Possess passion and commitment for nurturing an inclusive workplace that respects and values the diversity of Indigenous students with mindfulness about the intergenerational impact of colonial policies and histories on them and their families and communities
- Encourage and support Indigenous students in accessing, when needed, Western’s wellness and wellbeing program
- Liaison work: act as a cultural bridge (interpreter, educator, connector) to support and grow the relationships of Indigenous students and Western’s health professionals, in accessing mental health and wellness services, when needed
- Working with the Wellness team to support work to identify and reduce any barriers to access of care (e.g., stigma, finance, environmental)
- Support and promote access, navigation, and uptake of health supports that benefit Indigenous students
- Identify and arrange for culturally-relevant trauma-informed educational opportunities to advance the work of Truth and Reconciliation at Western for everyone’s benefit
- Journey alongside Indigenous students and support in accessing all available services at Western (including those provided beyond Western) to support mental wellbeing as required and advocate for Indigenous youth
- Assist relevant staff at Western learning more about Indigenous peoples and issues
- Work collaboratively with Western’s wellness and wellbeing team to educate and support culturally safe practices.
- Support Indigenous students to navigate Western’s medical and wellness, and wellbeing supports.
- Assist to integrate inclusive Indigenous cultural health promotion practices and social policies where relevant at Western.
- Communicate clearly, listen accurately, be open to feedback, handle conflict appropriately, and display sensitivity to others
- Collaborate well with others, promote cooperation, and teamwork

**Outcomes the Role is to Achieve**
- Encourage Indigenous students to access all health and wellness supports that are available to them at Western, therein equipping students with transferable skills that will help them to be successful in engaging mainstream supports, as needed, when they graduate, without having to compromise their Indigeneity
- Identify the need for and provide cultural training and increase the cultural capacity of relevant mental health and wellness service providers at Western (and with other agencies, as required)

**Problem Solving and Authority for Decisions**

a. **Examples of issues** that the incumbent is expected to resolve independently and **Who is affected**:

- Decisions affecting students, self and professional colleagues reg

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