Senior Health Policy Analyst - Shkaabe Makwa-camh

Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system - a world where Mental Health is Health.

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Shkaabe Makwa at CAMH is the first hospital-based Centre in Canada designed to drive culturally-responsive systems initiatives to achieve health justice and wellness for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis through the advancement of research, workforce development and innovative healing models that harmonize traditional knowledge and medical expertise.

Position Description:
Shkaabe Makwa is seeking a full-time, permanent Senior Health Policy Analyst to provide leadership, advice, and expertise in the development and analysis of policies and procedures that enable accessible, high quality and culturally safe care for First Nations, Inuit and Métis patients at CAMH. Working in close collaboration with colleagues from across the hospital including the Clinical Care, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, and Operations Policy Committees, the successful candidate will lead the review of CAMH’s internal policies by applying Indigenous cultural safety, anti-racism and anti-oppressive lenses. The Senior Health Policy Analyst will act as a senior project resource on assigned initiatives and will represent Shkaabe Makwa on organizational-wide committees to ensure the perspectives and needs of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis staff, patients, and families are included. This role will also keep abreast of public policies that affect First Nations, Inuit and Métis health and wellness and contribute to organizational policy projects.

Responsibilities

This position requires the successful candidate to be First Nations, Inuit or Métis with demonstrated community connections.

The successful candidate will have:

This position is located at the Queen Street site.