Your Opportunity:
The town of Fairview is located in the ‘Heart of the Peace’ country in beautiful northern Alberta. Residents enjoy a wide range of indoor and outdoor recreational activities including golfing, hockey, camping and swimming, just to name a few. Fairview also has great educational opportunities at the Fairview College Campus of the Northwestern Polytechnic including trades, agriculture and business programs. If you welcome a different pace of life and look for the chance to use the full scope of your clinical practice, Fairview could be the place for you. This Full time Permanent Occupational Therapist II position is based out of the Fairview Health Complex in Fairview, Alberta and is an opportunity to work to in a variety of clinical settings in a rural environment. You will be working with a multidisciplinary team in acute care, home care, outpatients, and long term care settings. There is also the supervision of a Therapy Assistant as part of this position. This position will give you the opportunity to work with clients of all ages in an interdisciplinary team environment. 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.
Description:

As an Occupational Therapist II, you will be responsible for the coordination of occupational therapy and other allied health clinical services within a program or service area. You will provide supervision of students and team members as assigned. As an Occupational Therapist II, you will be responsible to work both independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team where you will be an integral member, providing leadership to other healthcare professionals. You will be making day-to-day clinical decisions on patient/family needs regarding assessment, intervention, discharge and follow-up. You will make decisions and advise team members on complex clinical cases and provide clinical leadership within the program or service area to ensure safe, efficient and effective client care. You will ensure occupational therapy practice is evidence-based and in alignment with Alberta legislation and regulations, professional standards of practice, code of ethics and AHS policy and guidelines. You will be providing coordination of the day-to-day operations of an assigned service area and monitoring care delivery, identifying service needs and assisting other medical staff with caseload management, completing chart audits and providing follow-up and feedback to staff. You will be participating in program development and operational planning and representing the department on committees or programs. You will be making decisions on staffing level requirements, workflow and caseload priorities in collaboration with managers and other healthcare providers. As assigned, you will carry out the roles of a direct clinical service provider, consultant, educator and/or advocate in your program or service area.

• Classification: Occupational Therapist II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Allied Health
• Primary Location: Fairview Health Complex
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

• Classification: Occupational Therapist II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Allied Health
• Primary Location: Fairview Health Complex
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicabl