Policy Lead, Indigenous Cultural Safety

Do you want to collaborate with various rights holders to influence Indigenous Cultural Safety practices?

If so, you might be a great fit for the Policy Lead of Indigenous Cultural Safety at Fraser Health.

For this position, we also want to highlight that First Nations, Inuit, Métis ancestry is regarded as relevant to the skills and knowledge for excellence in this position.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Embedding Indigenous Cultural Safety and Anti-Racism into Fraser Health Policies, Procedures, Processes.
• Working in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary Indigenous Cultural Safety Team, supporting projects from a policy perspective.

What you bring to the role:

• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience in project and policy development, where you’ll be balancing priorities amongst clinical and community perspectives.
• Excellent and demonstrated Indigenous Cultural Safety competencies.

What to expect during your first week?

During your first week, you’ll be meeting the Indigenous Cultural Safety team, other Fraser Health policy leads, and clinical partners. You’ll also be learning about the Indigenous Research and Evaluation team’s projects and scope.

Where and when you’ll be working:

The position’s home office is located at Surrey Central. It’s a hybrid position, 3 days in office and 2 days work from home. Occasionally, policy meetings arise outside the times of work hours, which the successful applicant may be required to attend.

Travelling to communities an important way to stay connected to the peoples that we serve. We routinely travel to meet with Indigenous communities. Access to a Class 5 license and a personal vehicle is an asset, but not necessary.

Why work for Fraser Health?

Joining the Fraser Health team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields, career growth and advancement, a competitive compensation package (including comprehensive health benefits, and pension plan), and the rewarding opportunity to make a difference every single day in health care.

Who you’ll be working with:

You’ll be reporting to the Leader of Monitoring and Evaluation and collaborating with Research and Evaluation Specialist, and students. The position also works with a dynamic Indigenous Health team and wider healthcare partners.

If you’re interested in championing Indigenous Cultural Safety policy, then we encourage you to apply!

Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. Our team of nearly 40,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care.

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Reporting to the Manager, Indigenous Health Strategic Initiatives, the Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) Policy Lead provides leadership, consultation, guidance and assistance to programs and services across the Fraser Health (FH) on projects and policies designed to support Indigenous cultural safety and anti-racism in organizational culture, clinical practice and care delivery.

The Policy Lead is accountable for identifying and analyzing health systems issues, obtaining policy information from a variety of sources and consulting with a range of stakeholders to support the development and implementation of a policy management process inclusive of development and implementation, and policy recommendations within the overall policy framework for FH. Provides support to other policy authors in response to emerging health system trends and needs.

The Policy Lead assists FH's accreditation processes to ensure the integration of Indigenous Health and ICS programming. Develops key partnerships with managers and directors through FH, as well as other internal and external stakeholders.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g. public policy, administration) supplemented with a minimum three (3) years recent experience in project management and policy development/implementation; or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Fraser Health Authority values diversity within the workplace. For this position, we also want to highlight that First Nations, Inuit, Metis or Indigenous ancestry is regarded as directly relevant to the skills and knowledge for excellence in the position. Pursuant to Section 41 of the British Columbia Human Rights Code, preference will be given to applicants of Indigenous Ancestry.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

• Demonstrated knowledge of health issues and determinants of health, legislation and public policy affecting Indigenous people.
• Knowledge and appreciation of the unique history, cultures, and rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada is required.
• Lived experience with Indigenous populations and demonstrated extensive knowledge of Indigenous health care needs, services, and issues as well as knowledge of culture, protocols, traditions, and ideology of Indigenous people and organizations in British Columbia is an asset.
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks in a dynamic environment with changing priorities including ability to manage multiple projects/tasks.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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