ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:
The First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) and its employees are committed to a proactive and holistic approach to health and wellness, and to the delivery of services which are sustainable and honour the customs and traditions of First Nations communities.
The First Nations Regional Health Survey (RHS) is the only First Nations – governed, national health survey in Canada. It collects information about on-reserve and northern First Nations communities based on both Western and traditional understandings of health and well-being. This survey will be conducted primarily online and by telephone. Now in it’s fourth phase, results from the RHS have been used to support policy, funding, decision making and programming at the community, regional, provincial and national level. Rooted in traditional and western understandings of health and well-being, the RHS gathers information from First Nations people living on reserve and in Norhtern First Nations communities in a culturally safe and accesssible way.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Community Navigators assist with the data collection for the Regional Health Survey. Their role is to be the “in-person” connection between the FNHA staff and survey participants in the community. Community Navigators will share information with the survey team about community protocols and circumstances that arise, such as weather events or deaths in the community and will assist in the data collection in the way that best suits the data collection methods selected and the community’s gift card preferences.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Note: This is a list of all possible activities that a Community Navigator might do. Most will just do some of these.
- Travel to/from neighbouring communities to work (where safe/appropriate)
- Meet with RHS staff on a regular basis to provide updates
- Perform wellness self-checks each day for COVID safety before reporting to work
- Recieve gift cards and keep gift cards securely stored
- Take inventory of gift cards and paper surveys recieved
- Participate in training on the purpose of the survey, COVID protocols as well as thier role
- Work with a Membership Clerk to create a list of people invited to participate in the survey
- Deliver paper surveys by driving to people’s home and speaking with them about the survey
- Send electronic message with survey link to participants who have been selected for the survey (last resort, only contact information is Facebook)
- Maintain the list of people who have been given surveys
- Arrange for Elders to take the survey in a common area with an FNHA data collector or with the Community Navigator, if needed
- Arrange for people who can’t take the survey to take the survey on the phone, if needed
- Direct questions about the survey to an FNHA Data Collector
- Support with follow up in-person, of potential participants in collaboration with Data Collector follow-up efforts
- Collect completed, sealed surveys, potentially by going to pick up surveys from people’s homes
- Provide gift cards to participants who engage with the survey
- Enter gift card numbers into log, getting signatures from participants who complete
- Send unused gift cards, physical copies of gift card and participation logs back to FNHA
PLEASE SEND RESUME TO:
Caitlin Hartnett, Kwakiutl Health Director
250-230-4532