Occupational Therapist I

Have you ever thought of fulfilling your career goals in a peaceful rural setting? This could be the opportunity for you! Join our close-knit team where you can enjoy meaningful client interactions, a balanced workload, and an environment where you can thrive both personally and professionally. Picture yourself treating a diverse array of diagnoses, keeping your skills sharp while having the flexibility of a generalist practice. Collaborating with fellow OTs, PTs, and SLPs, you'll find yourself in a team-oriented environment that feels more like family than colleagues. As an advocate for positive change, you'll have the autonomy to make clinical decisions and contribute to program development and operational planning. With a robust Community of Practice, you’ll have the support and resources you need to enhance your professional journey. If you're ready to make a real difference in the lives of our community members, apply now to join our team of dedicated allied health professionals. For more information about the friendly community of Whitecourt, please visit: [https://rhpap.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/RHPAP_COMMUNITYPROFILE_WHITECOURT_8.5x11_SEPTEMBER2023_WEB.pdf

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 their professional community and participate in peer mentoring and supervising students. You may also provide clinical supervision to Therapy Assistants and Therapy Aides.

Completion of bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited university program. Registered with the Alberta College of Occupational Therapists (ACOT).

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