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We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Community Liaison Nurse to join our team at PHSA. As an Indigenous Health Specialist, you will play a vital role in ensuring the provision of culturally safe and client-centered care to Indigenous clients and healthcare providers.
Key Responsibilities- Act as a resource for Indigenous clients and healthcare providers to ensure the provision of culturally safe and client-centered care.
- Facilitate relationship building between Indigenous communities, PHSA programs and services, and community sites/clinics within the region.
- Provide support and advocacy for clients by facilitating and coordinating access to healthcare services, addressing cultural/spiritual needs, and networking with Indigenous and non-Indigenous health system and community partners.
- Visit Indigenous patients in BC Women's and BC Children's to validate demographic data, health and/or birth information, and the need for complex care coordination and community services.
- Provide complex care coordination for patients, ensuring the care plan with all necessary information is forwarded to appropriate community health centre/services/agencies, clarifies family expectations, and acts as a patient advocate.
- Communicate with other healthcare professionals within the hospital setting, and in the patients' community, physicians, nurses, lactation consultants, physiotherapists, FNHA Health Benefits administrators, community health nurses, family physicians, etc., to mentor and coordinate the complex medical needs of patients.
- Act in a public relations and advocacy capacity to represent Indigenous Health to medical staff and other service providers, and to community agencies and their staff by maintaining up-to-date knowledge of Indigenous Health.
- Provide consultation to staff for the purpose of enhancing knowledge of Indigenous cultures, contemporary social issues, and health beliefs.
- Participate in committees that integrate Indigenous Health with hospital and community programs by providing input and addressing Indigenous Health.
- Follow linkages to a variety of community programs, Community Health department (Infant, Child and Youth (ICY), Home Care, on and off reserve health providers, and other support services to facilitate a plan of care for patients.
- Communicate with Indigenous families on how to contact the community health nurse, community breastfeeding clinics, the newborn hotline, and parent/infant drop-in centres.
- Communicate with hospital social work and the Ministry of Child and Family Development (MCFD) to facilitate follow-up care for complex patients.
- Engage in ongoing team planning, development, evaluation, and quality improvement activities that facilitate team goal setting, problem-solving, and conflict resolution.
- Participate in education, research, and special projects by collecting documented patient information.
- Work in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, attend meetings and in-services, review team policies and procedures, and provide input/recommendations to manager and/or other team members regarding efficiencies of processes/procedures in relation to work duties with a view to ensuring streamlined, effective woman and child-centered practices for the Indigenous Complex Care Coordination team.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Current practicing registration with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
- Graduate of an approved School of Nursing plus two years recent, related experience in women and/or child-centered practice or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Current CPR and NRP certification.
- Pursuant to Section 41 of the British Columbia Human Rights Code, preference will be given to applicants of Aboriginal Ancestry.
- Comprehensive knowledge of Indigenous history, cultures, communities, cultural interference, social determinants of health, and Indigenous health policy and direction.
- Knowledge and understanding of services and philosophy of public health nursing.
- Ability to know and assess the need for and initiate the use of community services.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to counsel complex families.
- Demonstrated ability to provide culturally sensitive nursing services to Indigenous populations.
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to prioritize and organize work.
- Ability to operate related equipment.
- Demonstrated computer skills.
- Ability to promote and facilitate change, in alignment with PHSA's commitment to reconciliation and Indigenous cultural safety.
- Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
- Commitment to develop knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents, including Truth & Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan, and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.
- Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
- Knowledge of social, economic, political, and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism, and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments.
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