Nurse Practitioner - Coast Salish FNPCC (Vancouver Island)

First Nations Health Authority; Ladysmith; On-site; CAD 172,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coast Salish FNPCC on Vancouver Island seeks a Nurse Practitioner (Family) to deliver primary care in a culturally safe, team-based setting and to collaborate with Western and Traditional Wellness approaches. The role includes home visits and building a patient panel with a focus on First Nations health needs.

Applicants must hold a Master of Nursing as NP (Family), maintain an active BCCNM license, and have training in Cultural Safety & Humility (or willingness to obtain).

Qualifications

• Masters degree – NP (Family) required.
• Current active license with BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
• Training in Cultural Safety & Humility or willingness to take.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary care in a culturally safe, team-based environment that integrates Western and Traditional Wellness approaches.
• Provide home visits when clinically required.
• Manage a patient panel with emphasis on First Nations health priorities and collaborative care.

Skills

Cultural safety training

Education

Masters Degree – Nurse Practitioner (Family)

Job description

NURSE PRACTITIONER- Coast Salish FNPCC (Vancouver Island)

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.

The First Nations Health Authority is committed to respecting diversity within our workforce. Preference will be given to individuals who identify as First Nations from a Nation located on Vancouver Island or the surrounding areas. All interested First Nations, Inuit or Métis individuals are encouraged to apply. The First Nations Health Authority has a mandate to increase First Nations representation in the workforce. Applicant skills, perspectives and lived experience may be matched for this role, or other opportunities within the FNHA.

Position Summary

Title: Nurse Practitioner (NP)

Region: Coast Salish FNPCC (Vancouver Island)

Compensation: $171,533-$182,968 pro-rated for partial FTE plus completions incentive

Contract: Up to 1.0 FTE Contract-typically 1680 hours a year scaled to FTE

NPs Are Not Required To Contribute To Clinic Overhead.

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 is culturally safe and culturally informed where Indigenous ways of knowing and being are woven into services.

About The Centres

The Coast Salish First Nations Primary Care Initiative reinforces the value of health services closer to home by utilizing existing First Nations community clinics on Southern Vancouver Island. This hub and spoke approach creates a unique opportunity to build meaningful relationship with a limited number of communities, close to their home, people and culture. It is expected that most centres will operate Monday to Friday (excluding Statutory Holidays) during regular business hours. This may change over time due to operational needs.

About The Role

The Nurse Practitioners (NPs) will be the most responsible provider for a client panel as described in the NP clinical service contract template. NPs are 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 600 patients per 1.0 FTE by year 3 and will be confirmed in the clinical service contract. The Nurse Practitioner will be expected to provide home visits when clinically required.

Responsibilities

The Nurse Practitioner 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 families on their health and wellness journeys;
• You have a Masters Degree – Nurse Practitioner (Family);
• You have an active practicing license in good standing with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM);
• 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 and willingness to travel periodically around the Saanich Peninsula

Why Contract with the First Nations Health Authority

• 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 FW-FNPCC, 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 who will complete at least one within the first year of joining FNHA.

Contact

Anticipated Hire Date: As soon as possible

For more information about us, please visit: www.fnha.ca/about/work-with-us

If you have any inquiries or issues please contact Medical Affairs at [e-mail]