Physiotherapy Assistant

**You’re needed like never before.**

**We are currently seeking**:
**Physiotherapy Assistant/ Occupational Therapy Assistant**

**London Region**

**Independent Contractor, Flexible Caseload to meet your work/life balance.**

**(Full-time & Part-time)**

**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 / Occupational Therapy Assistant at VHA Home HealthCare will provide client-centered clinical care under the direction and supervision of a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist.

**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 required.
- 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-centred approach to care-giving
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Requires good judgement, problem solving and assessment abilities
- A keen desire to learn

**Why Work with VHA?**
- Greater independence, under a self-employed model, run your professional practice as your own business.
- Flexible schedule that meets your needs.
- Diverse client caseload, with the potential of working with clients across the lifespan for you to consider working with at VHA.
- Client care in various settings, including home care, retirement homes, and other facilities.
- Rehab Best Practice specialists and educators to support up-to-date learning with best practice guidance, education opportunities and the maintenance of professional regulatory standards and company policies
- Continuous learning and education opportunities.
- Peer support, mentorship programs, regular/team meetings with colleagues and clinical leads.
- Extensive Orientation.
- Employee/Service Provider & Family Assistance Program (EFAP).
- VHA Perks & Discounts.
- Staff & Service Provider Events.

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 HealthCa