North Island Community Health and Wellness

10/15/2026

Your next chapter could include a new nursing role, and a favourite trail home.

Picture meaningful work, new connections and days off spent doing what you love. From coastal communities to city neighbourhoods, Vancouver Island offers plenty of places to put down roots.

Bring your nursing skills to Island Health and find a place to grow, in your career and beyond your shift.

Nursing, more human.

Find your place: https://careers.islandhealth.ca/nursing/

Island Health offers programs and services on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish, Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka'wakw Peoples.

We respectfully acknowledge that this image was taken at Sugarloaf Mountain on the traditional and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw, Snaw-naw-as, and Stzuminus First Nations.

📷: Tourism Nanaimo/Justin Parsons

10/08/2026

You help people work toward what matters to them. What matters to you in your next career move?

Put your skills to work in physiotherapy or occupational therapy at Island Health, helping people participate in everyday life while building your own next chapter on Vancouver Island.

Pictured: Sarah and Kristen, occupational therapists at Royal Jubilee Hospital.

We respectfully acknowledge that this image was taken at Royal Jubilee Hospital on the traditional, unceded territory of the Lekwungen People, now known as the Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) and Songhees Nations.

Learn more about rehabilitation careers: https://careers.islandhealth.ca/rehabilitation/

10/05/2026

BC is making it faster and easier for internationally educated doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to join the workforce. This includes streamlining credential recognition and reducing barriers.

For example, more than 1,200 internationally trained doctors were licensed to practise in BC in 2025, bringing the total number of internationally trained doctors licensed in BC to more than 6,000.

And more than 780 US-trained doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners and allied health professionals have accepted jobs in BC’s public health-care system.

BC is also training more doctors here at home. In recent years, UBC’s medical school added 40 undergraduate seats, while BC’s new SFU Stephens Family School of Medicine welcomed its first 48 students this year. More than 160 new residency training positions are also being added by 2028.

Today, BC has the most doctors per capita in Canada, with 271 physicians for every 100,000 people.

This growing health-care workforce is helping people get connected to care. Since 2018, one million people have been connected to a primary care provider, and about 4,000 people are now being matched with a family doctor or nurse practitioner every week.

By training more doctors here at home, recruiting health professionals from around the world and making it easier for qualified professionals to join BC’s workforce, we’re continuing to strengthen health care for people and communities across the province.

10/02/2026

Meet Ryan van Haastert, a Central Island Indigenous Employment Advisor and member of Island Health’s Indigenous Employee Experience team.

Across the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish, Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka’wakw Peoples, the team works to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. They support Indigenous employees through connection, advocacy and culturally safe workplace practices.

If you identify as Indigenous and would like support with your application, connect with the team at [email protected].

Learn more: https://careers.islandhealth.ca/apply-now-indigenous-employee-experience/

Follow Island Health Indigenous Recruitment and Retention on Facebook for news and career opportunities: https://www.facebook.com/IslandHealthAboriginalRecruitment/

09/24/2026

A few months ago, Liz had never set foot in Canada. Today, she is building a new life and nursing career in Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island - with two dogs and a parrot along for the journey.

After working in reproductive health, abortion care and psychiatric nursing in the United States, Liz was ready for a change. She found an opportunity with Island Health that offered the kind of nursing work she wanted to do, in a community where she hoped to feel welcomed and at home.

Since arriving, Liz has found connection with her colleagues and the wider Port Hardy community. Most importantly, her work as an outpatient psychiatric nurse is giving her the sense of purpose she was looking for.

“Here, I’m actually spending my energy doing the work I went to nursing school to do.”

Are you a nurse in the United States considering a move to Canada? Find your place with Island Health and learn more about nursing opportunities on Vancouver Island: https://careers.islandhealth.ca/nursing/

Island Health offers programs and services on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish, Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka’wakw Peoples. If you identify as Indigenous, our Indigenous Recruitment and Retention team is available to support you through the application process at [email protected].

09/24/2026

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09/18/2026

Meet our Port Hardy Public Health Nurses who provide Youth Health Services at a variety of locations throughout our community, making care and support more accessible for local youth.