Learning Facilitator

About Nimkee Nupigawagan Healing Centre

Nimkee Nupigawagan Healing Centre provides residential treatment and healing services for First Nations youth and young adults who are at risk of, or experiencing, substance use concerns.

Our approach to healing is grounded in culture, identity, language, spirit, family, community, and connection to the land
. Young people live on-site while participating in structured treatment cohorts that integrate counselling, education, cultural teachings, Elder involvement, creative expression, land-based learning, and everyday living skills.

At Nimkee, learning extends far beyond the classroom. We believe that education can be a powerful part of healing, identity development, confidence building, and reconnection.

Nimkee is seeking a qualified and innovative Learning Facilitator to provide educational programming to youth and young adults living in residence.

This is not a traditional classroom teaching position.

The Learning Facilitator will teach across a broad range of subjects and learning experiences while ensuring that education is grounded in culture, identity, healing, relationships, and real-life application
.

The successful candidate will understand that meaningful learning may happen at a desk, in the kitchen, in the bush, through art, around a fire, through ceremony, during a community activity, or through conversations about everyday life.

The Learning Facilitator will work collaboratively with Educational Assistants, Cultural Staff, Elders, Counsellors, residential staff, and other members of the interdisciplinary team to create learning opportunities that meet young people where they are academically, emotionally, culturally, and developmentally.

The Learning Facilitator will:

• Plan and deliver individualized and group educational programming aligned with the Ontario curriculum
  , while adapting learning to the strengths, needs, interests, and circumstances of each young person.
• Teach a broad range of subject areas and support students who may be working at different grade levels and academic abilities.
• Integrate First Nations culture, identity, language, values, land-based learning, and traditional knowledge throughout educational programming and everyday activities.
• Create learning experiences that connect academic outcomes to practical life skills, cultural knowledge, healing, wellness, and community.
• Work collaboratively with Educational Assistants and Cultural Staff to support youth throughout their learning and residential experience.
• Develop creative, experiential, arts-based, and land-based approaches to learning.
• Support young people who may have experienced disruptions in schooling, trauma, substance use, mental health challenges, learning difficulties, or other barriers to educational success.
• Build positive, respectful, and trusting relationships with youth using a strengths-based and trauma-informed approach.
• Assist youth in developing confidence, self-awareness, responsibility, problem-solving skills, and a positive connection to learning.
• Develop individualized educational goals and learning plans where appropriate.
• Assess learning needs and progress and maintain accurate educational records.
• Complete required documentation, charting, case notes, reports, educational plans, and administrative records in a timely and professional manner.
• Participate in case conferences, interdisciplinary team meetings, treatment planning, program planning, and staff meetings.
• Communicate effectively with families, schools, community partners, and other professionals as appropriate.
• Support transitions back to school, community-based education, employment, training, or post-secondary opportunities.
• Participate in outdoor, recreational, cultural, and land-based activities with youth.
• Model healthy relationships, professionalism, cultural respect, accountability, and positive everyday living.
• Contribute to a safe, welcoming, culturally grounded, and healing-centred environment.
• Participate in organizational training, professional development, cultural learning, and other duties as required.

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