Indigenous Wellness Liaison

**Salary**: The salary range for this position is CAD $34.67/Hr. - CAD $49.83/Hr.
Summary:
**Providence Health Care’s Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation team is hiring**

To learn more about the Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation team, check us out here.
- “We are here to support and advocate for Indigenous folks to ensure that their healthcare is inclusive and that it is just as important as anyone else’s.” - Jaye Currie, Indigenous Wellness Liaison_

**Your duties will include**:
On a day-to-day basis, the Indigenous Wellness Liaison (IWL) will work to establish continuous, safe, and meaningful engagement processes with self-identified Indigenous patients and their families. Through their strong knowledge and lived experience, the IWL will assist to guide the patient and the health care providers to access cultural practices, traditional medicines, ceremony, and access to the All-Nations Sacred Space.

IWLs will make available connections to community supports, including Elders. They support the patient journey by acting as a liaison. This includes working closely with interdisciplinary teams and attending daily patient rounds, coordinating referrals to and from Indigenous organizations and other health programs and services.

Bring your whole self, life experiences and cultural learnings, to this role and make a tangible impact on the health care services provided to Indigenous patient populations at Providence Health Care. We are committed to treating those we serve — and each other — with compassion and respect.

**Please note**: This role will have a rotating schedule that may include weekends at times, and days/evenings shifts.

**Area of Work: Complex Intervention Response Team**

This role will be primarily focused on supporting the Complex Intervention Response Team (CIRT) at St. Paul’s Hospital, which provides specialized support for patients experiencing mental health and substance use concerns alongside their primary medical conditions. The team works to improve crisis intervention, de-escalation, and stabilization while ensuring culturally responsive care.

As part of CIRT, Indigenous Wellness Liaisons (IWLs) bring an essential cultural lens to patient care. They work alongside nurses, social workers, peer support workers, and addiction medicine liaison nurses to help bridge gaps in care for Indigenous patients, and to provide guidance on trauma-informed, culturally safe care. Their role focuses on advocacy, cultural connection, and supporting Indigenous wellness needs in collaboration with the broader healthcare team.

**Meet the Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation (IWR) team and what they do**:
The IWR team guides Providence Health Care in its commitment to advance Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, informed by seminal reports like In Plain Sight (2021) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. All of us at Providence are responsible for advancing Indigenous human rights in partnership with Indigenous Peoples, through processes underpinned by mutual respect and dignity. We also continually seek to maximize our capacity to deliver exceptional, culturally safe care to the Indigenous patients that we serve. The Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation team is an integral part of guiding and leading this work.

Implementing innovative solutions to challenges is a key part of advancing culturally safe, identify-affirming care. The implementation of innovative solutions often involves multiple teams and services, and requires coordination and respectful collaboration.

In this position, you will report to Neil Fowler, Manager, and be joining an exceptional, hardworking team balanced with unwavering support for one another and a great sense of humour: Fancy Poitras, Lindsay Beck, and Sheri Hundseth. The Vice-President of Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation, Harmony Johnson, leads the team through a strong vision and provides flexibility and autonomy.

Read more about the impact IWR is making at Providence Health Care.

What You Bring:
They will be able to work collaboratively and decisively to support the goals of the Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation Action Plan.

They will be able to work under pressure, be solutions focused, deescalate, resolve conflict, and practice cultural humility to address cultural concerns.

Demonstrated knowledge, experience, and understanding of Indigenous Peoples and cultures and history, an understanding of the roots of harm (colonization and racism) and ongoing harms experienced by Indigenous Peoples, UNDRIP, and the TRC Calls to Action.

Completion of a bachelor’s degree in social work, health care nursing or related discipline is an asset but we will consider all learning through non-traditional avenues.

What We Offer:

- The salary range for this role is $67,861 - $97,550 per year, depending on experience.
- A comprehensive health benefit package, including dental, vision, and life coverage.
- An orientation session and comp