Your Opportunity:The Stollery Children's Hospital, Primary Care Alberta, is excited to offer an opportunity to join the Awasisak Indigenous Health Program as a Cultural Helper. In this meaningful role, you will support culturally respectful, relationship centered care for Indigenous, Inuit and Metis pediatric patients and their families. Grounded in Traditional Indigenous knowledge and working alongside Western medical practices, you will help foster trust, cultural safety, and healing for families receiving care at the Stollery. Your presence alongside the Team and Cultural Advisor supports ceremony, traditional healing approaches, and culturally sensitive care, helping Indigenous children and families feel seen, heard, and supported. Serving families from Northern Alberta, and communities in the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, the Cultural Helper has direct contact with patients and plays a key role in ensuring care is culturally compatible with families' beliefs, values, and worldviews. Awasisak provides culturally sensitive services and builds bridges between Indigenous communities and pediatric health care. As a Cultural Helper, you will help strengthen these relationships and support Indigenous families through some of their most vulnerable moments We are a nation-leading hospital-based service provider operating 106 facilities across the province and we are dedicated to excellence in patient care. We strive to foster an environment where patients, clients, and staff feel safe, healthy, valued, and supported.Description:Indigenous ways of healing to pediatric patients, families and health professionals. Working alongside the Cultural Advisor and under the guidance and direction of the Team Lead and Manager of the Stollery Awasisak Indigenous Health, the Cultural Helper will work to build mutual understanding and trust between Indigenous patients and families, and health care providers. This position assists in the planning and delivery of educational and cultural events including traditional formal ceremonial healing, drumming ceremonies, talking circles, weekly smudges and crisis intervention. The Cultural Helper will educate pediatric patients, families, and staff about traditional protocols to ensure that the ceremonial space, sacred objects, and processes are appropriately regarded. In addition, the Cultural Helper assists with coordination and programming associated with the Stollery Foundation. Including Solstice events, community engagement events, Tea and Bannock and seasonal meals for families on site, Indigenous recreation programming and more. The Cultural Helper also provides assistance to the larger Awasisak team with the completion of additional duties or tasks as assigned. Respecting the historical impacts of colonization, the beauty of Traditional Indigenous beliefs and cultures, the diversity of many beliefs among Indigenous peoples, and the complex Western medical approaches to health, the Indigenous Cultural Helper establishes responsive, sensitive and consultative relationships with pediatric patients and families that enable trust and healing among peoples of diverse world views and approaches to health and healing.
Classification: Indigenous Cultural Helper
Union: Exempt
Unit and Program: Awasisak Indigenous Health Program
Primary Location: Stollery Children's Hospital
Location Details: As Per Location
Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
FTE: 1.00
Posting End Date: 23-APR-2026
Date Available: 11-MAY-2026
Temporary End Date: 11-MAY-2027
Hours per Shift: 7.75
Length of Shift in weeks: 2
Shifts per cycle: 10
Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings
Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
Minimum Salary: $25.02
Maximum Salary: $41.71
Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:Recognized by an Indigenous community as being competent in the use of traditional Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices. Advanced experience/knowledge of Indigenous healing methods, culture and traditions. Training and guidance in the use of traditional Indigenous approaches to wellbeing. Experience in a health care setting or in a human services field outside of a health care setting. Experience working with pediatric population within an acute care setting. As a bona fide occupational requirement, and under Section 11 of the Alberta Human Rights Act, only Indigenous applicants will be considered. We encourage Indigenous candidates to self- identify. Combination of experience and education in Indigenous cultural awareness and sensitivity. Experience working with Indigenous peoples and communities is essential. Additional Required Qualifications:Inter-site travel may be required. Preferred Qualifications:Degree in health care or social sciences. Knowledge of an Indigenous language.
