Indigenous Cultural Healing Coordinator

**Indigenous Cultural Healing Coordinator**

**Competition # ICHC 25-030 OPEN TO INDIGENOUS APPLICANTS ONLY**

**CLINICAL: Permanent, Full-Time, 80 Hours Bi-Weekly / 1.0 FTE: Days, Evenings, Weekends**

Our ideal team member is passionate about making a difference and is committed to empowering the young people we support. We are looking for individuals who will positively contribute to an inclusive, non-judgmental and fun environment. Marymounders are leaders who are confident, resilient and open to trying new things. If you join our team, you can expect a challenging, yet rewarding and fulfilling career.

The Indigenous Cultural Healing Coordinator (ICHC) focuses on the developmental needs of the children and youth they work with and provide opportunities to children to gain awareness and exposure to Indigenous practices, ceremonies and teachings. This position encourages the High Fidelity Wrap around facilitation, engaging with the youth, family and other formal and informal supports to develop a team that focuses on the development and ongoing support of a healing plan for the youth. To ensure holistic care, ICYC’s s use their skills and knowledge to design and implement programs and planned environments, integrating developmental, preventive and therapeutic requirements as outlined by individual healing plans.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Facilitates the optimal growth and development of each individual child or young person to achieve their full potential by developing an awareness of each child's individual psychological, educational, physical, spiritual, and social needs;
- Embedded within Marymound community homes and working in collaboration with Marymound Clinicians; they engage youth, and their supports in creating individualized healing plans that encompass a Two-Eyed Seeing approach to healing;
- Helps youth to identify personal strengths to promote hope, purpose, meaning and belonging;
- Implements strategies such as planned daily activities, coordinated cultural and healing interventions, structured environments, and organized recreational and social activities;
- Works collaboratively with the Cultural Services team to help youth access external community supports;
- Observes, evaluates, and records daily events in order to ensure continuity and consistency in healing planning and implementation, and other documentation as required;
- Engages in behaviour management, intervening in crisis situations, according to the guidelines and framework of Marymound’s policies and procedures, the youth’s safety plan, NVCI and ASIST;
- Demonstrates an active commitment towards professional growth and advancement through participation in training, workshops, etc. and the ability to flexibly and creatively adapt work to maintain best practices;
- Actively participates in fire and disaster safety response and prevention duties in accord with policy and licensing standards;
- Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

- Post-secondary education (i.e. social work, psychology, counselling, etc.) is preferred;
- Experience providing physical, psychological, and social support to at-risk youth or other vulnerable populations is preferred;
- Must be familiar with the developmental, educational, emotional, social and recreational needs of children and youth;
- Knowledge of Indigenous teachings, culture, and history including participating in cultural practices, programming and ceremonies alongside youth;
- Experience working with the Indigenous community;
- Knowledgeable in the in planning, delivery, and coordination of cultural programming;
- Ability to speak a First Nations language is an asset;
- Experience working from a trauma-informed perspective is preferred;
- Knowledge and experience in issues and supports related to addictions, harm reduction strategies, mental health and neurodevelopmental challenges would be considered an asset;
- Valid First Aid/CPR is required;
- Mental health/crisis training certifications including NVCI (Non-Violent Crisis Intervention) and ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills) would be considered an asset;
- Valid class 5 driver’s license, and satisfactory driver’s abstract;
- Satisfactory Criminal Record and clear Vulnerable Sector checks;
- Clear Child Abuse Registry and satisfactory Prior Contact checks;
- Strong written and oral communication skills;
- Basic computer knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office software;
- Physically able to perform the duties of the job;
- Open to Indigenous applicants only;
Marymound offers: competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits and pension package for qualified positions, opportunities for growth and advancement, professional development opportunities, wellness programming, fun events including a yearly staff retreat and staff BBQ’s, access to Elders and Indigenous Cultural Services and much more
- Request for reasonable accommodations will be made available for those who may be affected by a barrier in respect of the