Indigenous Health Workers

Key Tasks

• •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

Employment Projections to 2034