Quu’asa Wellness Worker
- Port Alberni, BC, Canada
Competitive benefit package and salary based on qualifications and experience: salary range $56,000 - $71,000. · Full-time
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- Competitive benefit package and salary based on qualifications and experience: salary range $56,000 - $71,000.
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- Full-time
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- English
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Original job description
Responsibilities Include
- To provide direct support to individuals, families, and communities.
- To facilitate cultural learning, activities, and ceremonies that provides cultural healing and mental wellness.
- To facilitate family support networks and facilitate family connections.
- To be familiar with other healing resources and introducing (referring) clients to these resources.
- To work with other staff to respond to crisis and mobilize community strength in response.
- To maintain reports, forms, and all required documents on a timely basis.
- Must have knowledge of Nuu-chah-nulth cultural-healing practices.
- Front-line experience working with aboriginal people.
- Diploma or other training in a field related to counselling and recovery.
- Experience in programs to facilitate transformation from addiction.
- Awareness of western mental health approaches.
- Experience working in a First Nations environment or being a First Nations person will be considered an asset.
- Must have a car and valid driver’s licence.
- Be willing to adhere to the NTC Communicable Disease Prevention Plan.
- Provide acceptable references and criminal record check.
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Responsibilities
Provide culturally based support to individuals, families, and communities, including facilitating cultural healing activities, ceremonies, and family connections. Coordinate referrals and crisis responses with other staff, mobilize community support, and maintain required reports and documentation.
Requirements
Knowledge of Nuu-chah-nulth cultural healing practices and front-line experience supporting Indigenous people are preferred, along with counselling or recovery-related training and awareness of Western mental health approaches. A car and valid driver’s licence are required, as are acceptable references and a criminal record check; willingness to follow the NTC Communicable Disease Prevention Plan is also required.
Skills
- Culturally Based Support
- Nuu-chah-nulth Cultural Healing Practices
- Cultural Learning and Ceremonies
- Mental Wellness Support
- Family Support and Connection
- Crisis Response
- Community Mobilization
- Addiction Recovery Support
- Client Referrals
- Report and Document Maintenance
- Front-line Support
- First Nations Community Experience
- Driving and Travel
Benefits
- Competitive Benefits Package
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Social Services
- Healthcare
Keywords
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Teechuktl Mental Health Program
- Cultural Healing
- Mental Wellness
- First Nations
- Indigenous Support
- Counselling
- Recovery
- Addiction Transformation
- Western Mental Health Approaches
- Family Support Networks
- Crisis Response
- Community Mobilization
- Client Referrals
- Remote Community Travel
- Valid Driver’s Licence
- Criminal Record Check