The Garden Hill Education Authority in Garden Hill, Manitoba is hiring for two full-time, permanent positions: a mental health counsellor at $36.00 per hour with two vacancies and a secondary school teacher at $45.67 per hour with four vacancies. Both jobs were posted on August 28, 2026 through the federal Job Bank website and are open to all qualified applicants.
The mental health counsellor role requires a Bachelor’s degree and one to two years of experience, while the teacher position requires a Provincial or Territorial Teaching Certificate. The teacher salary matches the median wage for secondary school teachers in Manitoba’s North Region, according to Job Bank data.
Garden Hill First Nation is a remote fly-in Oji-Cree community on Island Lake, about 475 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg. The community of roughly 4,000 people has struggled with a shortage of health and education staff. In 2022, leaders declared a health crisis amid rising mental health issues, addictions, and suicide rates. The nursing station has just four nurses and no hospital.
The school system serves about 1,200 students from kindergarten to Grade 12 across two schools. The high school has faced severe overcrowding and mould problems, and in November 2024 the federal government announced funding for feasibility studies and designs for new schools in Garden Hill and nearby O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation as part of a $545.1 million investment over three years.
The Education Authority, which employs between 100 and 500 people at its Garden Hill and Winnipeg locations, has indicated that both postings include support for Indigenous people and newcomers or refugees. Applications are being accepted through Job Bank for the mental health counsellor position and Job Bank for the secondary school teacher position, with deadlines expected in mid-September 2026.
