Primary Care Nurse, First Nations Virtual Doctor or the Day

About Us
FNHA Overview
The First Nations Health Authority is a diverse and transformational health organization of professional, innovative, and dedicated team members and leaders.

The first of its kind in Canada, FNHA works as a health-and-wellness partner with BC First Nations to support self-determination and decision-making to improve health outcomes.

FNHA is proud to have been named one of BC's Top Employers for 2025. Learn more about why we were selected here .

Title:
Primary Care Nurse, First Nations Virtual Doctor or the Day

Salary:
$94,724 - $114,261 per year (pay range explained below)

Contract:
Term until Mar 31, 2027

Hours:
8:30-4:30 Mon-Fri (core hours 9am-3pm Mon-Fri), 4-week rotation including stats

Location:
Remote- Anywhere in B.C.

Bargaining Unit:
PSAC Local Public Service Alliance of Canada) or PIPSC BCFNHA Group (Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada)

About The Role
With a strong view to providing access to culturally safe, high quality care closer to home, FNHA launched 2 virtual service pathways in 2020: 1) The First Nations Virtual Doctor of the Day (FNvDOD), and 2) The First Nations Virtual Substance Use and Psychiatry Service (FNvSUPS). These two services currently provide virtual access to primary care, substance use, and mental health services. Following the success of our first 2 years of service provision, FNHA is expanding the services and staffing mix for both pathways to further strengthen and grow the quality and capacity of the closer-to-home services we offer for Indigenous people and their family members living in BC.

Working within an innovative and growing virtual team-based care environment, the FNvDOD Primary Care Nurse is a key role and a collaborative leader within our virtual team-based environment. The FNvDOD Primary Care Nurse works with the multi-disciplinary team to provide client centered, culturally safe and trauma-informed direct virtual primary care services to clients at all life stages. The FNvDOD Primary Care Nurse actively contributes to ensuring a racism-free and culturally safe environment for all clients, their families, and staff.

About You
To be successful in this role you will have/be

Education

• Bachelor's degree in nursing or Bachelor's degree in Psychiatric Nursing from a recognized university.

Occupational Certification

• Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years of recent related experience in primary care, public health, community and/or chronic disease care.
• Experience working with and delivering health services to First Nations clients.
• Training in anti-Indigenous racism response and cultural safety and humility.
• Experience integrating holistic Indigenous approaches with Western approaches.

Knowledge

• Strong knowledge and ability to apply of cultural safety, humility and trauma informed approaches to practice.
• Knowledge of, and ability to apply, an understanding of First Nations cultural principles and protocols in work situations
• Knowledge of health status of populations, inequities in health, the determinants of health and illness, principals of primary care, strategies for health promotion, disease and injury prevention, health protection, curative, urgent and emergent care, rehabilitation and supportive or palliative care.
• Knowledge of nursing which includes the nursing process, conceptual frameworks of nursing, theories and principles of nursing practice.

Please refer to Job Specification section of the Job Description for more details.
Working at FNHA
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:

• Municipal Pension plan with an employer contribution of 9.31% after eligibility period
• 14 holidays including National Indigenous People's Day, National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, Easter Monday and Boxing Day
• Access to group health benefits and a Health Care Spending Account through Canada Life on day 1 of employment
• And more

The First Nations Health Authority is committed to respecting diversity within our workforce; preference will be given to individuals who identify as First Nations, Inuit, or Métis.
Leading with culture, all FNHA employees complete San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training. We support our FNHA family members to be leaders in wellness and all staff members develop a yearly wellness plan as part of their performance partnership and goal-setting.

The Pay Range is the minimum (Step 1) and maximum (highest Step) annual base salary based on full time equivalent hours.

How To Apply
If this sound likes the opportunity for you, please click on the 'Apply for Job' button.

Closing date:
January 11, 2026 (at 23:59)

For more information about us, please visit:

For information about Cultural Safety and Humility ) and for information about Land Acknowledgements

If you have any inquiries or issues, please contact FNHA Recruitment at

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