Health Promotion in Northern Ontario - Nurse

Job Title: Health Promotion in Northern Ontario

Location: Northern Ontario Communities-working from home with travel
Employment Type: Full-time

Position Summary

Join an innovative Indigenous team dedicated to advancing wellness with and for communities in Ontario. Working through liver wellness approaches to increase awareness and access to care for hepatitis C, grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, guided by the recommendations in the Ontario Roadmap for Hepatitis C Elimination and supported by the Circle for Liver Wellness Solutions (CLWS) we are co-creating creative awareness resources (stickers, website, social media, and more), providing awareness and education, and co-designing training modules to support community led initiatives focused on wellbeing versus disease and disparity. This role is key to build relationships, connect and liaison resources, share health education, facilitate skills training, and engage creativity and wellness principles. Opportunity to build and coordinate provincial initiative and engage in provincial and national advocacy. Funding from CIHR grant housed at York University with likely extension and aim to build into long-term regional infrastructure funding.

General Responsibilities:
The Indigenous Nurse / Health Promoter will:

• Provide culturally connected health promotion, education, and outreach focused on liver wellness for hepatitis prevention, testing, and treatment.
• Support community capacity building by working collaboratively with Indigenous leadership, Elders, academic partners, local health teams, public health, research connected to the Ontario hepatitis elimination roadmap. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and partner organizations to co-create innovative and culturally connected resources, implement prevention strategies improving health equity.
• Facilitate access to screening/testing and linkage to treatment services, including navigation and case management. Provide training in testing modalities and treatment support.
• Promote wholistic wellness approaches integrating physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
• Develop and deliver community-based workshops and initiatives on liver health, wellness support, harm reduction, and chronic disease prevention through a focus on wellness and the relational connection to culture, community, and land. Liver health promotion is inclusive of fatty liver, cirrhosis etc.
• Travel regularly to Indigenous communities across Ontario to strengthen relationships, support awareness, share resources, deliver education, and facilitate services.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Registration with College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Nurse.
• Minimum 3 years nursing experience in community, public, or primary healthcare.
• Demonstrated understanding of Indigenous culture, tradition, and wholistic health.
• Knowledge of hepatitis C, infectious diseases, public health, harm reduction, chronic illness management, health education, relational engagement.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, appreciation for relational approaches.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural environments.
• Able and willing to travel within Ontario (road, air) that will include overnight stays.

A successful candidate will have:

• Lived experience or strong connection to Indigenous communities, and comfortable working in a relational approach. Preferred Indigenous self-identification.

• Proven ability to work independently and remotely. Knowledge of wellbeing approaches. Experience in capacity-building, community development initiatives, and collaboration across disciplines.
• Police vulnerable sector check. Valid driver’s license and access to reliable transportation.

We would love to hear from you. Please send resume, cover letter and 3 references to: katedunn@yorku.ca