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We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Director of Indigenous Health and Cultural Safety to join our team at PHSA. The successful candidate will provide leadership and strategic direction to improve the health status of Indigenous people in BC accessing provincial specialized inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services with complex needs.
Key Responsibilities- Provide expert advice and consultation to Executive Team at PHSA with respect to identifying ongoing and emerging health needs and systemic health service barriers that the Indigenous people experience, and develops strategies to address these issues.
- Provide an Indigenous lens to PHSA strategic planning processes to ensure priority setting and program/policy design and scope are fully inclusive of and culturally safe for Indigenous peoples.
- Lead in developing and implementing the PHSA Indigenous Health and Cultural Safety action items as they relate to the PHSA Indigenous Health strategy and plan consistent with the First Nations Health Plan, the Tri-partite Health Plan, and the PHSA strategic plan.
- Ensure Agency, Board, Ministry, and other reporting requirements are maintained such as identifying and tracking metrics as they relate to the deliverables of Tripartite First Nations Health Plan.
- Provide leadership and representation for PHSA Indigenous Health and cultural safety issues, strategies and needs at health planning and policy development boards/committees for PHSA, the Ministry of Health and other bodies, as required.
- Consult and collaborates with Indigenous agencies, organizations and community groups to address Indigenous health issues and establish strategies for strengthening community capacity, especially those pertaining to Indigenous peoples access specialized provincial mental health and substance use services.
- Lead and direct the provincial specialized mental health and substance use Indigenous health and cultural safety strategies, utilizing provincial strategies to establish priorities for PHSA.
- Develop and maintain key partnerships with relevant health agencies, educational facilities, and Indigenous communities and groups.
- A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a Masters degree in a relevant discipline, such as Indigenous studies, nursing, population and public health, epidemiology, health psychology, or sociology, with a minimum of ten (10) years of recent, related experience working with Indigenous communities in public health care, including eight (8) years at a senior management/leadership level and significant Indigenous health-focused experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Canadian colonial impacts on Indigenous people in social and health contexts, supported by significant knowledge of Canadian and Indigenous ideologies.
- Demonstrated extensive knowledge of health issues, and especially the determinants of health, legislation and public policy affecting Indigenous people.
- Knowledge and appreciation of the unique history, cultures, and rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada is required.
- Experience or working knowledge of health systems and policy, organizational change, anti-Indigenous racism, resistance to change, population health, illness prevention, health promotion, knowledge exchange and change management.
- Extensive knowledge of Indigenous health care needs, services, and issues as well as knowledge of culture, protocols, traditions, and ideology of Indigenous people and organizations in British Columbia is an asset.
- Established knowledge and network of Indigenous communities, services, and agencies throughout BC is an asset.
- Experience or working knowledge of population and public health is an asset.
- Pursuant to section 42 of the British Columbia Human Rights Code, preference will be given to applicants of Indigenous Ancestry.
- Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
- Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities impacting indigenous communities and familiarity with Indigenous Cultural Safety and anti-racism and accompanying reports (BC DRIPA, TRC, etc.).
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