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Kw’umut Lelum is a Delegated Aboriginal Agency serving 9 Nations on Vancouver Island. We offer a Four Day Work Week, match Government wages and pension plan, and have an excellent benefits package
We currently have the following open positions:
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Kw’umut Lelum currently has a Child Safety position available and is looking for an individual who is a collaborative, strength-based social work practitioner that possesses knowledge of Nuu Chah Nulth cultural values and protocols to incorporate into the child safety environment.
Application deadline: October 20th
Job posting available here
Contact Maria Kerman to submit your resume and cover letter
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Reporting to the Wellness Team Lead, the FASD Key Worker works directly supporting families and children with a family centered approach, strength-based practice and within a cultural framework. Some activities that are included are:
Creating manageable and relevant plans for families
Navigating specialized services
Providing learning and education opportunities
Triaging to secondary support services
Paperwork/Application supports
Application deadline: Open until filled
Job posting available here
Contact Maria Kerman to submit your resume and cover letter
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AIDP provides culturally relevant supports and services to families of children up to the age of school entry who have, or are at risk of developmental delays. The program offers a range of supports. Participation is voluntary, and family centered. The program is built on the teachings, principles, wisdom and protocols of Indigenous Cultures. The program works to empower parents and families in their health, wellness and healing journeys to make lifestyle choices that create a safe home environment for children to grow in.
Application deadline: Open Until Filled
Job posting available here
Contact Maria Kerman to submit your resume and cover letter
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The Early Years Outreach Worker is responsible for supporting parents with individual outreach and facilitates pre- and post-natal groups. The Outreach Worker promotes and facilitates healthy pregnancies and enhance parenting capacity and early learning opportunities for supporting infants and toddlers, through an Indigenous lens.
Application deadline: Open Until Filled
Job posting available here
Contact Maria Kerman to submit your resume and cover letter
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The Uy’ama Wellness Counsellor provides culturally safe, trauma-informed and strength-based counselling and holistic wellness support to Coast Salish and Nuu Chah Nulth women. This role centers Indigenous knowledge, traditions, and healing practices while supporting clients in areas such as mental health, emotional well-being, family relationships, and community connection.
Treatment approaches should be informed and shaped by a balance of combining Western psychology along with Indigenous cultural practices and ceremonies that promotes healing and connection with culture.
Application deadline: October 8th, 2026 at 4:00pm
Job posting available here
Contact Maria Kerman to submit your resume and cover letter
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Kw’umut Lelum is currently seeking a contract worker to support Culture and Recreation programming that has the ability to work inclusively and respectfully with Indigenous children and families through a cultural lens.
This position supports Kw’umut Lelum programming by actively supporting, planning, preparing and all other duties associated with cultural team activities. This position will provide support for the recreational and cultural services for children, youth, and community and their support networks.
Application deadline: Open until filled
Job posting available here
Contact Maria Kerman to submit your resume and cover letter
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Seeking a contract worker for 2 to 5 days per week (up to 35 hours) to transport parents/children to/from supervised access visits and to supervise the visit.
The successful Applicant will:
Apply with a completed Criminal Record Check.
Have excellent interpersonal and self-management skills.
Possess knowledge of and are willing to work and learn about Coast Salish and Nuu-chah-Nulth cultural values, teachings and protocols.
Have previous experience providing services to children and families.
Must have and maintain a valid BC Class 5 driver’s license with no restrictions.
Availability for some evening and weekend work.
Application deadline: Open until Closed
Job posting available here
Contact Maria Kerman to submit your resume and cover letter
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The Administrative Assistant provides administrative, coordination, and operational support to Orca Lelum's Youth Support Supervisors, Youth Support Workers, Cultural Support Workers, and Finance Team. This role supports effective communication, documentation, scheduling, and program readiness within Orca Lelum's 10-Week Wellness Program.
The position reports directly to the Youth Support Supervisors for supervision, performance management, and time-off matters. While providing administrative support across teams, the role does not carry supervisory authority or alter existing reporting relationships.
Application deadline: Open until filled
Job posting available here
Contact Nikita D’Souza to submit your resume and cover letter
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The Care Coordinator is a member of Orca Lelum’s Care Team Specialists. The Care Team Specialist are led and supervised by the Care Team Manager and works collaboratively to provide coordinated, interdisciplinary services to young spirits throughout the 10-Week Wellness Program.
The Care Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the young spirit's journey through Orca Lelum's 10-Week Wellness program, with primary accountability for intake, collaborative care planning, safety, care, and supervision, and discharge/transition planning.
The position provides trauma-informed, culturally grounded social work support and serves as a central point of coordination among the young spirit, family or caregivers, referring and community professionals, and Orca Lelum's interdisciplinary team.
The role conducts psychosocial and safety screening, supports disclosures and crisis response, coordinates referrals and services, maintains required documentation in AMIS, and helps ensure each young spirit's care plan is individualized, strengths-based, culturally rooted, trauma-informed, holistic, and responsive to their evolving needs and goals. The role also leads discharge and transition planning, ensuring planning begins early, reflects the young spirit’s voice and identified needs, and supports a coordinated transition from Orca Lelum to family, community, Nation, health, social-service, cultural and other ongoing supports, with appropriate referrals, follow-up and continuity-of-care arrangements in place.
Application deadline: Open until filled
Job posting available here
Contact Nikita D’Souza to submit your resume and cover letter
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Reporting to the Program Director, the Cultural Support Worker supports the delivery of culturally grounded care, programming and experiences for young spirits participating in Orca Lelum’s 10-Week Wellness Program.
The Cultural Support Worker provides direct cultural support, mentorship, teachings and activities and brings their own cultural knowledge, skills and gifts to their work with young spirits. These gifts may include drumming, singing, storytelling, traditional arts, language, food preparation, land-based practices, ceremony or other culturally grounded teachings and activities appropriate to the employee’s knowledge, experience and cultural protocols.
Application deadline: Open until filled
Job posting available here
Contact Nikita D’Souza to submit your resume and cover letter
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The Youth Support Worker is a frontline member of Orca Lelum’s Wellness Program and plays an essential role in providing safe, consistent, relational and culturally grounded support to young spirits ages 12–18.
Youth Support Workers provide 24/7 direct support and supervision and help young spirits engage in their individualized Wellness Plans through daily routines, relationships, activities, life-skills development, cultural connection and wellness-focused programming.
Working under the direction of the Youth Support Supervisor, Youth Support Workers work collaboratively with the Wellness Team, Cultural Team, Occupational Therapists, clinical supports, Holistic Trauma-Informed Advisor and other internal and external professionals involved in supporting young spirits.
Application deadline: Open until filled
Job posting available here
Contact Nikita D’Souza to submit your resume and cover letter
Youth Support Workers are expected to observe, document and communicate young spirit progress, strengths, challenges and emerging needs; maintain appropriate professional boundaries; respond effectively to crisis and safety concerns; and contribute to a respectful, reliable and collaborative team environment.
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Orca Lelum is seeking expressions of interest from a qualified Medical Doctor (MD) specializing in Addiction Medicine to serve as the Medical Director and provide medical oversight, prescribing authority, and clinical leadership for BC’s first Indigenous youth withdrawal management and wellness centre.
Application deadline: Open until filled
Job posting available here
Contact Nikita D’Souza to submit your resume and cover letter
Career Opportunities
Kw'umut Lelum is a great place to start or grow your career.
We are always interested in receiving new resumes and letters from interested applicants. Kw'umut Lelum employs delegated social workers, family support workers, cultural support workers, and program and administrative staff.
We have offices in Nanaimo and Duncan, and many positions involve traveling to our Member Nations - which range from Qualicum down to Malahat.
Please feel free to send a letter expressing interest along with a resume to Maria Kerman, Human Resources.