Description
Job Title: Family Physician – Dadzi Wellness Centre
Salary Comment: The salary range is per the 2024-2025 Physician Master Agreement for BC plus Rural Retention Program and Incentives as eligible.
About Us:
The First Nations Health Authority is a diverse and transformational health organization of professional, innovative, and dedicated team members and leaders.
The first of its kind in Canada, FNHA works as a health-and-wellness partner with BC First Nations to support self-determination and decision-making to improve health outcomes.
Contract: Contract from 0.2 FTE up to a 1.0 FTE – typically 1680 hours a year per 1.0 FTE
Location: Fort St. James, BC
The salary range is per the 2024-25 Physician Master Agreement. Pre-determined rate ranges are per the Alternative Payments Subsidiary (APSA) Agreement. Additional Rural and Indigenous Incentives may apply based on eligibility. Family Physicians are not required to make a contribution towards overhead and typically a renewable contract will be negotiated.
About the Role:
The Family Physician will be the most responsible provider for a patient panel but is expected to collaborate in team-based care for patients, and support the practice of Western and Traditional Wellness approaches to patient health. A minimum panel size is typically expected to reach 650 per 1.0 FTE by year 3, and will be confirmed in the clinical service contract.
Responsibilities:
The Family Physician (GP) will be responsible for practicing with cultural humility, to provide primary care in a culturally safe, team-based environment that recognizes the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the client (and family) to provide whole person care, in compliance with policies and procedures of acceptable BC health and wellness regulations and standards.
About You:
- You are passionate about supporting First Nations individuals and families on their health and wellness journeys;
- You have an active practicing license in good standing with the College of Physicians of BC (CPSBC);
- You have training in Cultural Safety & Humility or are willing to take this training;
- Ideally you have experience working with First Nations people and communities and providing culturally safe care.
- Current valid driving license and willingness to travel throughout the region.
Why Work at the Dadzi Wellness Centre:
- We have a common foundation at FNHA through our Vision and Seven Directives to guide us in our daily work.
- We are wellness champions. We have the historic opportunity to achieve transformative change in First Nations health & wellness.
- We provide meaningful work rich with transformational learning opportunities.
- When you work at the Dadzi Wellness Centre, you will truly make a difference in your life and for many others.
- We work together, not apart, with our beautiful and culturally rich First Nations communities in British Columbia.
The First Nations Health Authority is committed to respecting diversity within our workforce; preference will be given to individuals who identify as First Nations, Inuit, or Métis.
Be a part of something amazing: The Dadzi Wellness Centre is seeking Health Professionals that want to make change in groundbreaking and innovative Healthcare for First Nations people!
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