Director of Integrative Health

Native American Community•Minneapolis, MN

13h•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Integrative Health will lead the integration of Indigenous values, spiritual care, and western clinical practice across the Native American Community Clinic. This is a systems leadership role responsible for shaping and advancing NACC’s model of whole person healing. The Director will work closely with the Director of Traditional Medicine and with medical, dental, behavioral health, and substance use leadership as a partner. While honoring shared leadership across disciplines, this role takes ownership for ensuring both clinical integration and the philosophical integration of culture as a form of healing across all programs. The Director will oversee outpatient behavioral health and expand its definition to include integrative and culturally grounded approaches such as spiritual care, ceremony, land based healing, acupuncture, Reiki, and other therapies. The role ensures that culture is not positioned as a separate service, but embedded as a core clinical strategy across NACC’s care model. The Director will also lead the continued development and expansion of NACC’s youth mental health and substance use prevention efforts. This includes strengthening culturally grounded prevention programming that supports identity development, cultural connection, and community belonging for Native youth. The role will help build a continuum that connects prevention, early intervention, family support, and clinical services. This leader will serve as a bridge between traditional healing and clinical operations, building structures, workflows, and teams that make identity, belonging, and cultural connection visible and active in patient care.

Requirements

Significant experience working with Native communities
Demonstrated leadership in systems design, program development, or interdisciplinary clinical integration
Deep lived or professional understanding of Indigenous lifeways, ceremony, and spiritual practices as forms of healing
Ability to lead across functions and build trust with clinical, operational, and cultural teams
Comfort navigating both clinical environments and cultural spaces

Nice To Haves

Experience overseeing outpatient behavioral health programs is preferred
Experience developing youth focused prevention or community wellness programming is strongly valued

Responsibilities

Design and oversee systems that connect primary care, dental, behavioral health, substance use services, and spiritual care
Develop clear pathways for incorporating cultural and spiritual healing into treatment planning
Create workflows that allow integrative therapies to operate within coordinated clinical models
Partner with clinical operations teams to ensure ethical and safe implementation
Strengthen care coordination across prevention, early intervention, and clinical services
Lead the expansion of NACC’s youth focused prevention programming addressing mental health and substance use
Develop culturally grounded approaches that support identity, belonging, cultural connection, and resilience among Native youth
Provide strategic leadership for outpatient behavioral health programming
Expand the conceptual framework of behavioral health to include identity, culture, spirituality, and belonging
Integrate culturally grounded and community defined healing approaches into clinical practice
Support program development, staffing models, and quality improvement within outpatient behavioral health
Build and support a spiritual and cultural care provider team
Define standards and scope for spiritual care within a clinical setting
Ensure respectful and ethical integration of ceremony, land based healing, and cultural practices
Partner with traditional healers and community leaders to strengthen authenticity and accountability
Oversee the development of complementary and integrative therapies such as acupuncture, Reiki, and other healing modalities
Align integrative services with Indigenous philosophies of health and NACC’s clinical standards
Evaluate effectiveness and sustainability of integrative programs
Help build organizational understanding of culture as medicine
Develop training and frameworks that center identity, belonging, and relational care
Support interdisciplinary collaboration across clinical and cultural teams
Serve as a visible leader in advancing NACC’s commitment to integrated, culturally rooted care