Lead, Health Equity

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The Lead, Health Equity & Priority Populations (Indigenous) works closely with the Strategy, Design, and Engagement Team in building and maintaining Ontario Health North’s evolving engagement and health equity strategies in alignment with Ontario Health’s broader Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Anti-Racism portfolio and the Indigenous Health Equity and Coordination portfolio.

The role has responsibility for engagement with regional and provincial partners from First Nations, Inuit, Métis and Urban Indigenous (FNIMUI) communities and organizations and will act as a change agent to drive the development of a system that is safe, inclusive, and culturally appropriate with and for Indigenous populations within the North Region.

As part of the Design, Strategy, and Engagement Team, the Lead, Health Equity & Priority Populations (Indigenous), will support broader engagement activities including patient, caregiver, and community engagement efforts with FNIMUI communities, organizations and partners. The position collaborates with others within the organization and across the region to develop and implement strategies for FNIMUI engagement, health equity, and overall regional engagement that will ensure care delivered reflects Indigenous and equity-deserving populations’ voices and is responsive to their needs, values and preferences.

This position acts as the first point of contact, both internally and externally, for Ontario Health North’s FNIMUI engagements. The Lead will help to ensure work is rooted in an Indigenous health equity lens and will help to strengthen North Region’s role and commitment to building meaningful relationships and continuing to learn how to be a supportive ally in reconciliation that will inform all the Indigenous, health equity and engagement strategies at Ontario Health North.
- Here is what you will be doing:
- Co-develop and implement a North Region Indigenous Health Equity Work Plan and Engagement Work Plan.- As a team player, advance a foundational approach to develop resources that support staff in working through a FNIMUI health equity lens and an organizational culture that embodies the philosophies of FNIMUI Equity, Inclusion, Diversity and Anti-Racism (EIDA-R).- Support the coordination and delivery of FNIMUI community engagement events which includes planning and logistics that support a better understanding of community needs, gaps and possible solutions to close health systems gaps.- Keep up to date records on community engagement outcomes and monitors best practices in community engagement and communication methodologies.- Develop local FNIMUI engagement strategies and frameworks tailored to support the coordination and delivery of local/regional health-care system plans and priorities.- Identify emerging issues in the FNIMUI community that require a communications response. This would include working with community/provincial/federal partners to support the management of a response in the event of an emergency or crisis.- Provide advice and input from the planning and performance perspective for the development of FNIMUI health plans for community partners, planning, and the regional leadership team.- Identity current gaps and create opportunities for community involvement for strategies with health equity best practices applied.- Establish and maintain an updated centralized resource on FNIMUI community groups for internal planning use.- Provide facilitation at FNIMUI community events to lead group discussions on complex health issues which will require excellent listening and c