As Deputy Chief Medical Officer you will provide centralized and strategic focus to promote and protect the health and wellness of BC First Nation peoples and communities while co-leading with the COO and CMO.You will have the opportunity to act as a champion for the First Nations philosophy and approach to population and public health by providing leadership in the areas of Environmental Health, Health Surveillance, Communicable Disease Management, Population Health and Health & Wellness Promotion.
In this role you’ll have an opportunity to make difference by:
• Co-leading with the CMO and COO to deliver First Nations centered services and care
• Providing physician leadership and strategic advice related population and public health strategies at provincial, regional, and local scale level
• Building and maintaining strong partnerships and networks to ensure sustained collaboration with health system partners regionally, nationally and internationally, and acts in an advocacy role for First Nations in BC.
• Providing expert advice on public health, population health, environmental public health, communicable disease, and crisis response for the BC First Nations population.
• Supporting the strengthening of the practice of cultural safety and humility among physicians and other health and wellness service
• Working support of the CEO, CMO, and in collaboration with COO and Regional Directors, representing FNHA on external committees