Therapy Assistant

Your opportunity will be in the Transition Unit, supporting clients with recreation, activities of daily living and therapeutic interventions as prescribed by the Occupational and Physical Therapist. This unit is currently housed out of the Grand Prairie Regional Hospital and moving to the QEII Ambulatory Care Facility in the near future. In addition to a competitive rate of pay, AHS currently has a Remote Retention Allowance in place to an annual maximum of $3,000. This allowance is non-pensionable and is payable on an hourly basis for all hours paid at the basic rate of pay.

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.

Completion of diploma from an accredited post-secondary rehabilitation Therapy Assistant program or equivalent training may be considered.

Our program is looking for a dual trained assistant with both occupational therapy and physical therapy in the program. I high degree of independence is required with off-site supervision.

A minimum of 1-2 years of experience in a comparable site would be preferred.