Indigenous Health Workers

What the job involves

• Maintaining health records and statistics

• Acting as an advocate in the community they serve, and as a communicator and interpreter on behalf of clients and other health workers

• Providing clinical functions, such as case management and follow-up, independently or in consultation with other health care providers

• Providing health education to individual clients and staff in health facilities

• Providing cultural education to persons outside the cultural community and life skills education to the community they serve

• Providing counselling and referring clients to other health care providers where necessary