Job Description

Your Opportunity:

Now is your chance to be a part of changing how healthcare is delivered to Albertans. We are excited to be offering Restorative Care in the Town of Mayerthorpe. With this comes the opportunity to help build our team and services, offering you a chance to truly make a difference! Restorative Care is an intensive rehabilitation program designed to help patients, particularly seniors, maintain and improve function. Restorative Care focuses on improving an individual\'s physical function and mobility, with the goal being to return to their own home or transition to the most independent level of care possible. Restorative Care is a multidisciplinary care model that is intended to also improve health and psychosocial outcomes of the clients in order to reduce caregiver burden, and to adopt evidence-based clinical practice that has demonstrated an ability to improve functional independence for clients. In addition to supporting Restorative Care, you will be working within our ExtendiCare Long Term Care facility, providing a well-rounded opportunity to grow your skillset and impact many Albertans in different ways. The Town of Mayerthorpe prides itself on their friendliness and desire to help. Mayerthorpe is located 123 northwest of Edmonton, on a major route to the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska. Mayerthorpe offers many community groups, recreation facilities, schools, and programs, to keep residents active. Rural Alberta is beautiful, peaceful and provides a great backdrop for a fulfilling career. If nothing feels better than making a difference in the lives of families of your own community, we encourage you to consider Mayerthorpe.

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\xc2\xbfs 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 their 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: Restorative Care Program, Continuing Care, ExtendiCare Mayerthorpe, Home Care
• Primary Location: Mayerthorpe Health Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 24-FEB-2023
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• Date Available: 06-MAR-2023
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $38.14
• Maximum Salary: $50.78
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Registered with the Alberta College of Occupational Therapists (ACOT). Additional Required Qualifications:

Current Basic Cardiac Life Support certification (Healthcare Provider) from the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation. Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with seniors is an asset. New grads welcome to apply!

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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We\'re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care every day, all across Alberta.

Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it\'s about putting patients\' and families\' experiences, priorities and trust first.

We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

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