Clinical Nurse Specialist Indigenous Cultural Safety Job Vancouver area,BC Canada,Healthcare

Job Description

Summary

Providence Health Care’s Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation team is hiring!

To learn more about the Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation team, check us out here.

We acknowledge that Providence Health Care & the new St. Paul’s Hospital site is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

What does the Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation team do?

The IWR team guides Providence Health Care in its commitment to advance Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, informed by seminal reports like In Plain Sight (2021) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. All of us at Providence are responsible for advancing Indigenous human rights in partnership with Indigenous Peoples, through processes underpinned by mutual respect and dignity. We also continually seek to maximize our capacity to deliver exceptional, culturally safe care to the Indigenous patients that we serve.

The Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation team is an integral part of guiding and leading this work.

Implementing innovative solutions to challenges is a key part of advancing culturally safe, identify-affirming care. The implementation of innovative solutions often involves multiple teams and services, and requires coordination and respectful collaboration.

In this position, you will be joining an exceptional, hardworking team balanced with unwavering support for one another and a great sense of humour.

What you will do:

Reporting to the Vice-President, Indigenous Wellness and Reconciliation, and the Chief of Professional Practice and Nursing for professional issues, the Clinical Nurse Specialist-Indigenous Cultural Safety provides cultural safety and nursing expertise and functions as a clinical leader within and across programs. They will consult and collaborate with Clinical Group/Service Leaders, other nurses and health care professionals to improve and advance cultural safety in nursing practice and patient/resident outcomes both in the area of specialty and in nursing practice initiatives throughout Providence Health Care.

If you don’t meet all the qualifications listed above, we do encourage you to still apply. We review all applications and welcome related experience to add to the diversity of our workforce. Joining PHC now is a chance to immerse yourself in a culturally collaborative, compassionate and innovative workplace. You will play a key role being part of healthcare team that addresses the needs of our community.

You will broaden your expertise, increase your knowledge and have opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications / Skills and Education

Education

Masters’ degree in Nursing. Current practicing registration with the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia. Five years of Nursing experience with three years of recent, related experience in a clinical area relevant to the area of specialty. Applicants of Indigenous ancestry are preferred

Skills and Abilities

significant depth of understanding of Indigenous cultural safety and anti-racism theory, practice, and history.

demonstrated experience working with and alongside Indigenous communities, families, and individuals.

ability to develop, implement and evaluate programs in areas of clinical practice.

ability to perform in-depth holistic patient/family assessments, plan, implement and evaluate care for complex care situations, and guide interdisciplinary team members in care planning.

ability to be an effective consultant for individuals and groups.

ability to conceptualize research questions and collaborate with researchers to conduct research.

ability to role model expert nursing practice.

ability to assist in the development of professional and leadership skills of the nursing staff.

ability to synthesize and utilize research findings in practice.

ability to present clinical/research work in a scholarly way.

prepared to be affiliated with a university school.

Duties and Responsibilities

Exemplifies and promotes cultural safety and anti-racism in…


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