Physiotherapy Assistant

**You’re needed like never before.**

**We are currently seeking a**:
**Physiotherapy Assistant (PTA)**

**Central Team - North York & York Region**

**Flexible Independent Contractor model to meet your work life balance**

**Part time availability**

**Empowered Every Day.**

**At VHA, we care about each other as much as we care about our clients. We offer coaching, training, and support for learning. We value autonomy, flexibility, and working as a team. And we’re as diverse as the clients we support. Our people are the backbone of our business, driven by a shared purpose.**

**Become a member of our amazing team of Rehab Service Providers and make a difference in our community.**

**A Physiotherapy Assistant at VHA Home HealthCare will provide client-centered clinical care under the direction and supervision of a Physiotherapist.**

***Responsibilities**:

- Assist/supervise the client with his/her individual prescribed exercise programs or ADL training
- Assist/supervise client with walking, transfers, stairs, safe mobility, and positioning using proper body mechanics
- Provide client/family education and support to address physical, functional and self-care needs as assigned
- Assist with gross motor, fine motor and balance activities
- Monitor and report changes in health status to the Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist
- Participate in program planning, quality improvement and evaluation
- Document in the client record and collect required data as requested

**Qualifications**
- Diploma as an OTA/PTA from an accredited college program.
- You have a minimum of 2 years relevant work experience, preferably in the community working with geriatric clients with variable diagnoses and multiple co-morbidities.
- You are a skilled communicator and have a successful track record of coaching/mentoring clients to participate in a professional manner.
- Current First Aid Certificate and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate required.
- Evidence of continuous education.
- Sound critical thinking, good judgement, and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to work effectively and collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team.
- Demonstrated understanding and practice of rehabilitation principles and techniques.

**Attributes**
- Demonstrated ability to recognize safety issues and follow safe work practices.
- Possess a compassionate and flexible nature, and a client-centered approach to caregiving.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Requires good judgement, problem solving and assessment abilities.
- A keen desire to learn.

Founded in 1925, VHA is a not-for-profit, charitable organization made up of over 3,000 diverse professionals - nurses, personal support workers, rehab therapists, home support workers, extreme cleaners, and office support staff. Together, we provide high quality care, with great heart, to vulnerable populations in the communities we serve. This includes seniors, families, new parents, newborn babies, people with physical and mental disabilities, children with medically complex needs, and the terminally ill. We provide service 24 hours a day, seven days a week to clients in their homes, in schools, in retirement homes and other locations in the community. In every role and at every level, we lead with purpose, build bonds that matter, and we’re passionate about providing spectacular care.

**PLEASE NOTE**: To protect the health and safety of our employees, clients and their families and in the interest to follow strong public health measures, it is a requirement of employment at VHA Home Healthcare to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. A fully vaccinated person means you have received all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine series approved by Health Canada or the World Health Organization, at least 14 days prior to your start date and you will need to provide proof by submitting a copy of your Ministry of Health COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Administration Receipts or government vaccination passport. VHA Home HealthCare will consider cases needing accommodation as stipulated by the _Ontario Human Rights Code._ In the event that you are unable to be vaccinated as a result of a ground protected under the _Human Rights Code_, you may submit a request for accommodation with an explanation of the ground and/or any supporting documentation to assist in the determination of exemption from this condition.

VHA Home HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. VHA is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment. If you require an accommodation, let us know in advance.