Wellness Navigator

3 weeks ago

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Nova Scotia Health Authority Full time
About the Opportunity

This is a designated position that requires the successful candidate to self-identify as African Nova Scotian or Black Person of African Descent.

The Nova Scotia Brotherhood Initiative (NSBI) is a community-based health initiative that focuses on providing cultural and gender-specific care to African Nova Scotian Men. The NSBI delivers wellness programming, primary care, and chronic disease management, as well as navigation. The initiative works in collaboration with other provider groups and services to offer programming and supports.

As a Wellness Navigator, you will demonstrate flexibility and innovation in supporting citizens of the communities that the NSBI serves in accessing services, programs, and resources that can support health-enhancing behaviors. Your responsibilities will include meeting with individuals and families with complex health and wellness needs to support them in navigating healthcare and community resources.

You will assess and prioritize needs using a determinants of health lens, develop care plans, provide advocacy, creatively mobilize resources across the continuum of care, coordinate health and community resources, and provide transitional support. You will also research, develop, and maintain in-depth awareness of resources within the community and surrounding areas of the district through a community development, population health, and collaborative approach.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Meet with individuals and families with complex health and wellness needs to support them in navigating healthcare and community resources
  • Assess and prioritize needs using a determinants of health lens
  • Develop care plans and provide advocacy
  • Creteively mobilize resources across the continuum of care
  • Coordinate health and community resources
  • Provide transitional support
  • Research, develop, and maintain in-depth awareness of resources within the community and surrounding areas of the district

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in a healthcare discipline
  • Registration with a professional regulatory association required
  • Minimum 3-5 years of related experience required
  • 3-5 years of experience in a primary health care setting, community-based team, or community setting
  • Previous work experience with African Nova Scotian communities is preferred
  • Preferred experience in partnership development, stakeholder collaboration, and community development
  • Experience working with people living with a chronic condition
  • Understanding of population health, health promotion strategies, and behavior change principles
  • In-depth knowledge of local district health authority and community-based services
  • Demonstrates person-centered and family-focused approaches to care
  • Well-developed interpersonal, teamwork, oral, and written communication skills
  • Demonstrates flexibility, adaptability, and willingness to change
  • Demonstrates innovation in program planning, implementation, and evaluation, and quality improvement
  • Planning skills
  • Computer skills (MS Office, email, and internet)
  • Annual CPR-AED certification and annual WHMIS training and certification
  • Valid driver's license and access to a reliable car for travel for work
  • Competencies in other languages preferred, French an asset

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