Job Description

Your Opportunity:We are seeking an enthusiastic Therapy Assistant with a recreation-focused background to join our team. As an interdisciplinary team member of the Assertive Outreach Service, you will play an integral role in helping individuals with a severe and persistent mental illness realize their full recovery potential in a community setting. Working collaboratively with a supervising therapist, and other team members, you will contribute to the development, scheduling, delivery and evaluation of various programs designed to assist clients with goal development and attainment. Psychoeducational groups and programs currently offered include recreation/leisure, social, vocational, and life skills. Your client work will be a combination of individual and group-based service delivery. While many of our current programs are offered at the Mental Health Clinic, this position will require you to travel to various locations within the City of Red Deer such as recreational facilities, grocery stores, other agencies, etc. This position requires walking, lifting and stairs daily. Other duties as required.Description:As a Therapy Assistant, you will work both individually and as part of an interprofessional team under the assignment, monitoring and evaluation of an audiologist, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, recreation therapist or speech-language pathologist. You will contribute to effective and efficient rehabilitation services including direct and indirect client care across the health care continuum (healthy living, getting better, living with illness and disability, end of life care) for all ages as well as non-client service provision. This role will require you to work effectively with internal and external partners, and display professionalism and strong ethics in both client centered care and participation in care teams. You will demonstrate evidence of reflective thinking and lifelong learning that enhances individual and team competency. You will have opportunities to use your interpersonal and clinical skills in contributing to quality improvement, program planning and student supervision.

• Classification: Therapy Assistant
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Red Deer Assertive Outreach
• Primary Location: Red Deer MH and Comm Hlth Ctr
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 01-APR-2024
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• Date Available: 15-APR-2024
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $25.11
• Maximum Salary: $31.48
• Vehicle Requirement: Driver\'s License, Vehicle Required

Required Qualifications:Completion of diploma from an accredited post-secondary rehabilitation Therapy Assistant program or equivalent training may be considered. Additional Required Qualifications:Minimum 1 year experience with acute mental health preferably in a community setting. An understanding of the impact of trauma on substance misuse and mental health concerns. Strong ability to triage priorities. An excellent attendance record, reliability, adaptability and flexibility must be demonstrated through your employment references. Current BLS and NCI. Preferred Qualifications:Connect Care training for Ambulatory Mental Health Therapist.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.Healthy Albertans. Healthy
Communities. Together.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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