With peaceful hearts and open minds, we stand together as one. Rooted in the strength of our ancestors, we honour our traditions while embracing a shared path forward. Through collaboration, understanding, and respect, we uplift our people and work toward a thriving future for Chawathil First Nation and the generations to come.
Job Overview
Chawathil First Nation is seeking an Elders Cultural Wellness Facilitator to support culturally grounded wellness programming for Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and community members.
The Elders Cultural Wellness Facilitator supports healing circles, storytelling, land-based gatherings, cultural teachings, and relational wellness support. The role centres lived and living experience as a source of knowledge and works alongside youth, wellness, culture, and language supports to strengthen healing, connection, and belonging in the community.
Key Responsibilities
- Support healing circles, storytelling sessions, land-based gatherings, cultural teachings, and other cultural wellness activities.
- Hold safe, respectful, non-clinical wellness spaces for Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and community members.
- Share lived/living experience, cultural knowledge, and personal teachings in appropriate, boundaried ways.
- Support community members experiencing grief, mental wellness challenges, substance-use impacts, disconnection, or related wellness concerns through cultural grounding and relational support.
- Connect community members to Wellness staff, cultural supports, health services, or other supports when needs fall outside the scope of the role.
- Track activities, participation, themes, and stories of impact, with consent, to support grant reporting and program learning.
- Participate in required training, supervision, wellness check-ins, and related learning sessions.
- Maintain confidentiality, healthy boundaries, and respectful records in accordance with Chawathil First Nation policies and procedures.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Commitment to following Chawathil First Nation’s Ways of Working.
- Understanding of lived and living experience as a source of knowledge in mental wellness, healing, substance-use recovery, grief, or related wellness journeys.
- Knowledge of Indigenous cultural teachings and ways of supporting wellness through culture, land, story, ceremony, and relationship.
- Ability to hold safe, respectful, non-clinical wellness space and share teachings or lived/living experience in appropriate, boundaried ways.
- Ability to recognize when someone may need additional support and connect them to appropriate staff, services, or community supports.
- Ability to build respectful working relationships with Elders, Knowledge Keepers, youth, families, staff, and community members.
Education & Experience
- Experience using lived/living experience, cultural knowledge, or community connection to support healing, wellness, recovery, or belonging.
- Experience participating in or supporting cultural wellness activities, healing circles, storytelling, land-based gatherings, ceremony-connected activities, or traditional teachings.
- Experience providing culturally grounded, relational, peer-based, or non-clinical wellness support.
- Training in peer support, trauma-informed practice, mental wellness, substance-use support, cultural safety, Indigenous wellness, or related areas is an asset.
- An equivalent combination of education, training, lived experience, and work experience may be considered.
Other Requirements
- Ability to work flexible hours, including occasional evenings and weekends.
- Ability to successfully and periodically undergo a vulnerable sector criminal record check.
- Commitment to following Chawathil First Nation policies and procedures.
Preferred
- Chawathil First Nation or Stó:lō Nation membership.
Pay: $60,000.00-$75,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Paid time off
- Wellness program
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Hope, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have lived/living experience, cultural knowledge, or community connection relevant to supporting healing, wellness, recovery, or belonging?
Work Location: In person
