Lead Facilitator, Indigenous- Antiracism Education

Position: Lead Facilitator, Indigenous-Specific Antiracism Education
Who are we looking for?

Interior Health is hiring a permanent full time Lead Facilitator, Indigenous-Specific Antiracism Education to join our team. Are you ready to make a lasting impact on cultural safety and antiracism within health care? This role will lead impactful training initiatives and work closely with Indigenous communities and partners to foster culturally safe environments. As a trusted resource, you’ll empower staff with tools, insights, and best practices to create positive, lasting change across health services.

If you’re passionate about shaping a more inclusive health system, apply today and help drive meaningful change at Interior Health!

The worksite location for this position is flexible and can be located anywhere within the Interior Health region. Travel is a requirement of the position.

Some of the Benefits of Joining Interior Health:

• An attractive remuneration package

• Excellent career prospects

• Employer paid training/education

• Employer paid vacation

• Employer paid insurance premiums

• Extended Health & Dental coverage

• Municipal Pension Plan

• Work-life balance

Benefits for Indigenous Employees:

• Ceremonial, Cultural, Spiritual Leave

• Indigenous Employee Network

• Indigenous Employee Voices Committee

Salary Range:

Salary range for the position is $88,990 to $127,923. Interior Health establishes salaries within the minimum and maximum of the salary range based on consideration of the qualifications, experience of the applicant, and an internal equity review of the salaries of other employees.

How will you create an impact?

In accordance with the established vision and values of the organization, the Lead Facilitator, Indigenous-Specific Antiracism Education participates in the development of an Interior Health (IH) wide Indigenous-specific antiracism education framework and facilitates sections of Indigenous-specific antiracism education and the Indigenous Cultural Safety education. As a resource to IH staff, the Lead Facilitator provides consultation and direction related to the development of guidelines, systems, and instruments to support the achievement and maintenance of antiracism education that is Indigenous-specific, and collaborates with colleagues in other disciplines to ensure appropriate staff development and participation in Indigenous Cultural Safety education is embedded throughout the continuum of health services.

The Lead Facilitator works collaboratively with the Indigenous Partnerships team, the Host First Nations, Métis Nation BC, and Urban and Away From Home Indigenous Peoples, to lead the organization in meeting its goal of enhancing First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples’ access to culturally safe services ient and staff safety is a priority and responsibility shared by everyone; as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality, dismantle racism that is Indigenous-specific, and ensure Indigenous Cultural Safety is an outcome, will be the result of the Indigenous-specific antiracism education framework.

The Lead Facilitator will be expected to understand the portfolio’s “big picture” by:

• Keeping pace with changes by scanning research for relevant trends that are based in best practices, and developments affecting the portfolio’s programs.

• Demonstrating the ability to identify strategic issues and collaborate with colleagues within the Indigenous Partnerships umbrella to assess the situation and identify alternatives.

• Staying up to date on current IH, Provincial, and Federal initiatives related to Indigenous Cultural Safety education, Indigenous-specific antiracism education, and best practices in adult education; and,

• Building collaborative, integrative partnerships across IH that can champion and build momentum for strategic change rooted in academic research and best practices.

What will you work on:

• Participates in the development of an organization-wide Indigenous-specific antiracism education framework and facilitates Indigenous-specific antiracism education and the Indigenous Cultural Safety education throughout the continuum of health services.

• Provides organization-wide training that supports IH’s commitment to deliver services in…