Primary Care Careers

The FNHA is seeking health professionals to join primary care teams across British Columbia.

There are exciting opportunities for new positions and career growth with the opening of First Nations Primary Care Centres throughout the province.

Primary care roles at the FNHA include:

• Traditional wellness practitioners, Traditional healers, sacred Knowledge Keepers and Traditional wellness coordinators
• Family physicians
• Nurse practitioners
• Registered nurses
• Licensed practical nurses
• Medical office assistants
• Midwives
• Dentists, dental therapists, dental hygienists, dental assistants
• Dietitians
• Mental health professionals, including psychologists, clinical counsellors and registered psychiatric nurses
• Social workers and navigators 
• Occupational therapists
• Physiotherapists

These roles may be available as:

• Long-term positions
• Short-term/temporary positions
• Permanent employee positions
• Contract positions

We are wellness champions. We have the historic opportunity to achieve transformative change in First Nations health and wellness, and an obligation to make the most of this opportunity.

Change lives, starting with your own

Here, your work changes lives, starting with your own. We provide meaningful work rich with transformational learning opportunities to deliver culturally safe health and wellness programs and services to First Nations people across BC.

Do health care differently

We work together, not apart, with our beautiful and culturally rich First Nations communities in British Columbia. We strive for excellence and believe First Nations deserve the best we have to offer.

We are for changemakers

Those who are called to act, open to cultural understanding and teachings, and undaunted by unique challenges.

See positive impact firsthand

When you work with us, you will truly make a difference in your life and for many others.

• Competitive pay
• Training and education opportunities
• Recruitment and retention bonuses for select positions working in remote and isolated First Nations communities
• A robust pension plan
• Extended health and dental benefits
• Paid annual vacation, personal days, a volunteer day and sick leave
• Relocation and housing assistance may be available for select positions in remote communities

We have primary care opportunities across BC.

First Nations Primary Care Centres are being established in rural and urban locations across the province.

Make history at the FNHA where you can advocate for change, address health inequities and social injustice and be part of a rich culture.

Join us in health care done differently and be part of the solution.

The First Nations Health Authority is committed to respecting diversity within our workforce; preference will be given to individuals who identify as First Nations, Inuit, or Metis.