Family Practitioner/General Practitioner

Health Match BC; Williams Lake; On-site; CAD 400,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retention Premium 12.32%

Relocation Funding Available

Recruitment Incentive

Job summary

The Family Physician role at All Nations Healing House, operated by The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA), offers culturally safe primary care for First Nations and Indigenous people in the Williams Lake area. You will work within a team that honors Western and Traditional Wellness approaches and aims to build a large patient panel over time.

Ideal candidates hold an active CPSBC license, have training in cultural safety, and bring experience serving First Nations communities.

Qualifications

• Active medical license with CPSBC in good standing.
• Cultural safety & humility training completed or willing to undertake.
• Experience working with First Nations communities and delivering culturally safe care.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary care in a team-based setting incorporating Western and Traditional Wellness.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Team collaboration

Education

Active CPSBC license

Cultural Safety & Humility training

Tools

Valid driver's license

Job description

Role and Facility Information

FAMILY PHYSICIAN - All Nations Healing House

About Us

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.

FNPCI INITIATIVE

The First Nations-led Primary Care Initiative (FNPCI) aims to improve access to primary health-care services for First Nations people across BC in a way that is culturally safe and closer to home. The FNPCI is part of the province’s primary care strategy, which is integrating team-based care in communities throughout B.C. and changing the way primary care is delivered with the creation of primary care networks in partnership with the Regional Health Authorities.

In order to meet the health and wellness needs of First Nations people, it is very important that primary care be culturally informed where First Nations ways of knowing and being are woven into services. One of the FNPCI's main objectives is to develop new First Nations Primary Health Care Centres in rural and urban locations across the province. The centres will provide access to quality primary health care services for First Nations people and their families. The aim is for clients to feel safe, welcomed, valued, respected, and heard when they access care services at one of these centres.

About The Centre

The All Nations Healing House provides culturally safe and trauma-informed primary health care for unattached First Nations and Indigenous people and their families. The Centre serves the needs of the First Nation and Indigenous communities in the Williams Lake area and the 15 communities of the Secwépemc, Tsilhqot’in, and Dakelh Dené Nations. The Centre operates Monday to Friday (excluding Statutory Holidays) during regular business hours.

Indigenous ways of knowing and being are the foundation of the All Nations Healing House. They include Elders, Traditional Healers and other Indigenous care providers as core members of the health-care team who work in close collaboration with family doctors, nurse practitioners and other providers to provide holistic health and wellness services. Services offered include full scope primary care provisions by family physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses as well as Traditional Wellness, Mental Health, Wellness Navigation. In coming years, we also intend to expand services with guidance from the Nations we serve.

About The Role

The Family Physician will be the most responsible provider for a client panel, and is expected to collaborate within a team-based environment that supports the practice of Western and Traditional Wellness approaches to client health and wellness. A minimum panel size is typically expected to reach 650 per 1.0 FTE by year 3, to be confirmed in the clinical service contract.

Responsibilities

The Family Physician (FP) will be responsible for practicing with cultural humility, to provide primary care in a culturally safe, team-based environment that recognizes the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the client (and family) to provide whole person care, in compliance with policies and procedures of acceptable BC health and wellness regulations and standards.

About You

• You are passionate about supporting First Nations individuals and families on their health and wellness journeys;
• You have an active practicing license in good standing with the College of Physicians of BC (CPSBC);
• You have training in Cultural Safety & Humility or are willing to take this training;
• Ideally you have experience working with First Nations people and communities and providing culturally safe care.

Current valid driving license

Why Work with FNHA

We have a common foundation at FNHA through our Vision and Seven Directives to guide us in our daily work.

What happens to communities and people we serve happens to us—we care for and respect one another. What happens to us happens to community and the people we serve—we strive for excellence and believe First Nations deserve the best we have to offer.

We are wellness champions. We have the historic opportunity to achieve transformative change in First Nations health & wellness, and an obligation to make the most of this opportunity.

We are for change makers. Those who are called to act, open to cultural understanding and teachings, and undaunted by unique challenges. We are a young organization, still growing and fast changing.

We provide meaningful work rich with transformational learning opportunities.

When you work at the All Nations Healing House, you will truly make a difference in your life and for many others.

Find purpose beyond your profession. “It starts with me”. Here, your work changes lives, starting with your own.

We work together, not apart, with our beautiful and culturally rich First Nations communities in British Columbia.

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.

First Nations Health Authority is a first of its kind in Canada and joining our family means being part of a collaborative, diverse and compassionate organization committed to innovating, transforming and redesigning health service delivery for First Nations communities in BC. Leading with culture, all FNHA medical staff are encouraged to continue with their cultural safety and humility learning and engagement activities. A range of relevant courses are available to medical staff.

Anticipated Hire Date: As soon as possible.

Compensation

Compensation Type Clinical Service Contract Estimated Remuneration 424,166 Physician Overhead n/a

Benefits and Incentives

May be eligible for additional remuneration in accordance with the Rural Subsidiary Agreement (RSA) including: Retention Premium 12.32% Relocation Funding Available $9000-12000 Recruitment Incentive $varies

• Retention Premium 12.32%
• Relocation Funding Available $9000-12000
• Recruitment Incentive $varies