Position:

Community Health Navigator Transitions in Care Pilot

Program or Team:

Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Regional Systems Level Initiatives

Location:

Barrie or Orillia as assigned; Regional work required

Supervisor:

Indigenous Health System Transformation Specialist Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin

Term:

1.00 FTE

Salary:

$75,916.00 (plus applicable benefits and HOOPP)

Term:

March 31, 2026

About the Organization:

The Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle is a regional social planning and development organization. The BANAC service region now covers Simcoe County, Muskoka, and the northern York Region. BANAC works in cooperation with communities in areas of concern where coordinated efforts are required to meet the needs which positively impact the region. BANAC will continue in this social planning capacity, offering consultation and support for our community development. BANAC offers many innovative programs and services including, Family Wellness, Childcare, Seniors Care and Long-Term Care, Cultural Services, and wholistic Health Services through the Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team.

About the Role:

The successful candidate will liaise with incarcerated individuals and a network of local health care services, to ensure that these individuals have a healthcare reintegration plan with a focus on quality, equitable access, and culturally safe care.

The successful candidate is expected to uphold principles of dignity, advocacy, and empowerment for their identified clients and their healing journeys by supporting with their transition from correctional facilities back to their home community, ensuring a solid connection to appropriate, wraparound, community-based primary healthcare services. The Community Health Navigator will work with the Transitions in Care project team to enhance the development, design, and evaluation of the Transitions in Care framework via needs assessment, gap analyses, identifying barriers and establish a metric to measure continuum of care successes and challenges.

What You Bring:

Relevant college or university level accreditation; preferably in health sciences/social services field

• 5+ years of experience working with vulnerable and/or racialized groups, including Indigenous peoples
• Understanding of Indigenous culture, values, and perspectives
• Understanding of lived experience of the clients being served is an asset
• Knowledge and awareness of primary health care, mental health supports, and treatment organizations located within the region
• Knowledge of justice, reintegration, and rehabilitation programs is an asset
• Knowledge of Ontarios healthcare system an asset
• Knowledge and understanding of healthcare quality improvement and process mapping is an asset
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to a changing environment
• Ability to monitor and analyze data
• Ability to multitask among several competing priorities
• Excellent advocacy and empowerment skills
• Excellent communication, organizational, planning and computer skills
• Positive attitude and capacity to act as a healthy lifestyle role model
• High confidentiality standards and ability to exercise sound judgment
• Commitment to adapt to specific job requirements as the continuum of care within the project evolves
• Commitment to ongoing training and professional development relevant to job requirements
• Understanding of health information systems (EMR, OCEAN, e-referral, e-consult) is an asset

What We Offer:

We provide a generous benefits package, including HOOPP, paid vacation, cultural leave, extended holidays, on-going training opportunities and the opportunity to work in a dynamic community-based environment.

We are happy to connect candidates selected for interviews with a member of the clinical team to ask questions about the role and work experience at BANAC Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin.

Information About Working at BANAC Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin:

Work is typically performed in clinic, office, institutional and community settings.

Regular travel to meetings, institutions and communities, will be required vehicle an asset

Regular overtime work may be required from time to time, BANAC team members enjoy a flex schedule agreement

Periodic exposure to smoke may occur from the burning of sacred medicines: Tobacco, sweet grass, sage or cedar.

Specific employment conditions are specified in an employment contract with BANAC and include the following:

Worksite location

Valid C.P.R. and A.E.D. Certificates required

Valid Class G Ontario Drivers License is required with clear check for vulnerable sector

Applying to this Job:

Please apply directly to this position on the Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle careers webpage at www.banac.on.ca/careers.

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DISCLAIMER: This job posting indicates the general nature and level of work expected. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required by the incumbent. Incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as required