Birth Worker

Anishinabek Employment & Training Services; Northwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 63,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Anishinabek Employment & Training Services in Ontario seeks a Birth Worker to join its Indigenous health team. This full-time PSW role focuses on culturally grounded prenatal, birth, and family wellness education and support.

You will work with families across clinic and home settings, connect them with Elders and traditional teachings, assist with nutrition and postnatal care, and help navigate health and social services. Application deadline: October 23, 2026.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in health, social work, or appropriate combination of education and experience.
• Indigenous Doula training and Indigenous lactation training considered assets.
• Collaborative, trauma-informed, client-centered approach aligned with WNHAC values.
• Wholistic health and wellbeing knowledge; experience with families at risk is an asset.
• Deep understanding of Indigenous culture and traditional/contemporary health care practices.
• Anishinaabemowin knowledge is an asset; willingness to learn about Indigenous culture and values.
• Experience in an Indigenous organization or willingness to learn; immunization compliance required.
• Valid driver’s license, vehicle, travel willingness; criminal records check and driving abstract required.
• Commitment to ongoing training, professional development, and healthy lifestyle role modeling.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate client access to reproductive health education, resources, and services.
• Plan and facilitate culturally relevant prenatal, postpartum, parenting, and family wellness education.
• Support families in preparing for pregnancy, birth, postpartum recovery, infant care, feeding, and parenting.
• Provide home, clinic, and community-based support throughout the prenatal and postpartum periods.
• Connect birthing families with Elders, Knowledge Keepers, cultural services, traditional teachings, and ceremony.
• Provide doula-informed emotional, practical, and advocacy support during pregnancy, labour, birth, and postpartum, as appropriate.
• Support maternal and infant nutrition, including meal preparation, breastfeeding support, infant feeding education, and family wellness activities.
• Advocate for and assist families in navigating health and social services locally and across provincial borders, including Manitoba.
• Assist families with postpartum needs, including documentation, community resources, support planning, and referrals.
• Develop and support maternal, infant, and family wellness programming based on community needs and program priorities.
• Other duties as the program evolves; redeployment may occur in emergencies to ensure essential services.

Skills

Collaborative approach

Trauma-informed care

Wholistic health knowledge

Indigenous cultural understanding

Anishinaabemowin (asset)

Willingness to travel

Education

Undergraduate degree in health, social work, or related field

Indigenous Doula training

Indigenous lactation training

Job description

We provide primary health care through a range of options including prevention, assessment,

diagnosis, and treatment. Our interprofessional teams include health professionals, educators and

support workers representing both traditional Indigenous and contemporary models of care. Also, use

of wholistic healthcare that addresses the heart, mind, spirit, and body. WNHAC offers incredible

experiences and exposure to cross-cultural medicine in growing community focused health care

system.

NOTE: Traditional practices involve cultural ceremonies and burning sacred medicines including

tobacco, sweetgrass, sage and cedar within the work setting.

Employment Type

Full Time

Job Occupation Type

Nurse aides, orderlies and patient service associates PSW

Total Positions

1

Wage

$62,575-$85,265

Hours/Week

0

Days of Work

n/a

Closing Date / Apply By

10/23/2026

Start Date

n/a

Duties

• ? Facilitate client access to reproductive health education, resources, and services.
• ? Plan and facilitate culturally relevant prenatal, postpartum, parenting, and family wellness education.
• ? Support families in preparing for pregnancy, birth, postpartum recovery, infant care, feeding, and parenting.
• ? Provide home, clinic, and community-based support throughout the prenatal and postpartum periods.
• ? Connect birthing families with Elders, Knowledge Keepers, cultural services, traditional teachings, and ceremony.
• ? Provide doula-informed emotional, practical, and advocacy support during pregnancy, labour, birth, and postpartum, as appropriate.
• ? Support maternal and infant nutrition, including meal preparation, breastfeeding support, infant feeding education, and family wellness activities.
• ? Advocate for and assist families in navigating health and social services locally and across provincial borders, including Manitoba.
• ? Assist families with postpartum needs, including documentation, community resources, support planning, and referrals.
• ? Develop and support maternal, infant, and family wellness programming based on community needs and program priorities.
• ? Other duties as the program evolves and as required. In extenuating situations or in the event of an emergency, may be redeployed to endure provision of essential services.

Qualifications

• ? Undergraduate degree in health, social work, or appropriate combination of relevant education and work experience;
• ? Indigenous Doula training and Indigenous lactation training considered an asset;
• ? Ability to work in a collaborative, de-colonial, trauma-informed and client-centered approach and to support WNHAC values in meaningful ways;
• ? Demonstrated experience and understanding of wholistic health and wellbeing;
• ? Good knowledge of human development, family wellness and experience working with families at risk considered an asset;
• ? Deep understanding and experience of Indigenous culture, values, and perspectives as well as traditional and contemporary health care practices
• ? Ability to speak and understand Anishinaabemowin a definite asset;
• ? Experience working in an Indigenous organization; understanding and/or willingness to learn of Indigenous culture and values;
• ? Proof of immunization in compliance with policy requirements is mandatory;
• ? Valid drivers' license, own vehicle and willingness and ability to travel required;
• ? Criminal records check and current drivers' abstract required;
• ? Commitment to ongoing training and professional development relevant to job requirements;
• ? Positive attitude and capacity to act as a healthy lifestyle role model.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday October 23, 2026

Birth Worker

Website: WNHAC.org

Fax: [phone]

Phone: (888) MYWNHAC

We thank all applicants for their interest in this position; however, please note only those selected for an interview will be contacted. As an Indigenous employer we encourage First Nations, Inuit, and Metis applicants to apply.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and will provide accessibility accommodations as part of the application process upon request.