Occupational Therapist I

at  Alberta Health Services

Your Opportunity:
Children’s Home Care is a multi-disciplinary team with RN, SW, RT, PT, OT, SLP and Rehab Assistants who collaborate and deliver services to children from 0-18 years old with a wide variety of conditions, including children with complex health needs. As an OT in Children’s Home care, you will act as both a Case Manager and a direct care provider, utilizing your strong skills in family-centered practice, coaching, assessing, organizing and communication. The service locations can be at a clinic, clients’ homes, and/or community settings. The case management duties include ongoing assessment and identification of the overall unmet needs of the child/family. In collaboration with the family and other partners the case manager develops a care plan, based on those unmet needs, using the appropriate internal and external resources. Case Managers work within a Competency Framework that includes personal and professional accountability, systems thinking, creative thinking, communicating and building relationships. Principles of adult learning must be incorporated while educating parents and community partners on a variety of health-based issues to enable the client to participate to the best of their ability at home and in their community.
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¿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.

• Recovery Alberta: N
• Classification: Occupational Therapist I
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Home Living
• Primary Location: East Edmonton Health Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

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