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3 months ago
Your Opportunity:
Within the Halvar Jonson Centre for Brain Injury, reporting to the Unit Manager, you will provide a broad range of services in the areas of self-care, productivity, and leisure. As part of an interdisciplinary team, you will be responsible for assessing, planning, and implementing client-centered treatment programs for patients with acquired brain injury. Your role will include accessing, evaluating, and recommending adaptive equipment, wheelchairs, seating components, and UE orthotics. In this role, you will also work with behaviourally challenged patients within the program. You will direct the work of therapy assistants assigned to help you manage your caseload. The Halvar Jonson Centre for Brain Injury is a 48 bed facility that provides care for patients with acquired brain injury through an interdisciplinary approach. The program is a progressive and expanding service with a commitment to professional development and excellence.
Description:
As an Occupational Therapist (OT), you will provide evidence-informed services, with a focus on occupational performance designed to meet the needs of individuals, groups, or a community. You may act as a direct service provider, consultant, educator, or advocate and function as an integral health care team member. You will engage individuals, groups, and communities to enable meaningful and chosen occupations, including self-care, productivity, and leisure. You will support clients to achieve optimum functional abilities and independence related to their cognitive, affective, spiritual, and physical strengths and limitations. As an OT, you will provide comprehensive services, including triage, screening, consultation, assessment, diagnosis, collaborative goal setting, treatment, prevention, self-management, education, case management, referral, transition support, and collaboration with relevant and chosen stakeholders and supports within the client’s physical, institutional, cultural, and social environments. You will include clients and families as integral members of the health care team, encouraging their active participation in all aspects of care. You will collaborate with clients and families in determining, implementing, and evaluating rehabilitation. You will participate in a variety of interprofessional teams to build awareness, enrich support, and engage in quality improvement by partnering with healthcare providers, patients, families, and other stakeholders to advance services for the clients. You will contribute to quality improvement and your professional community and participate in peer mentoring and supervising students. You may also provide clinical supervision to Therapy Assistants and Therapy Aides.
Classification: Occupational Therapist I
Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
Unit and Program: Occupational Therapy
Primary Location: Cent. Ctr for MH and Brain Inj
Location Details: As Per Location
Multi-Site: Not Applicable
FTE: 1.00
Posting End Date: 26-AUG-2024
Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
Date Available: 05-SEP-2024
Temporary End Date: 16-FEB-2026
Hours per Shift: 7.75
Length of Shift in weeks: 2
Shifts per cycle: 10
Shift Pattern: Days
Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
Minimum Salary: $38.90
Maximum Salary: $51.80
Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Completion of bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited university program. Registered with the Alberta College of Occupational Therapists (ACOT).
Additional Required Qualifications:
You are a graduate from an approved school of occupational therapy and eligible for registration with the Canadian and Alberta Associations of Occupational Therapists. You will have excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills. CPR required – BLS for Health Care Providers Level C. You are physically capable of carrying out the duties of this position. This physically demanding position requires the OT to physically assist patients in a variety of functional tasks. Complex moderate to severe brain injured patients may be very dependent for care at times. You are expected to manage behaviourally challenged patients.
Preferred Qualifications:
Greater than 6 months experience in working in neurology, with stroke and brain injured patients is desired. Three years’ clinical experience in rehabilitation services using a client-centered approach is preferred.
