Your Opportunity:
Are you a collaborative, passionate clinician ready to take the next step in your career? We are seeking a dynamic Team Leader to join our Pediatric Division, providing both clinical expertise and team leadership to support children and families with complex needs. In this rewarding role, you’ll split your time between direct client care and leadership responsibilities. You will deliver family-centered assessment, treatment, education, and follow-up services for pediatric clients, ensuring care is evidence-based and meets high clinical standards. You’ll also supervise and mentor students, interns, therapy assistants, and other physical therapists fostering professional growth and excellence in practice. As a Team Leader, you’ll play a vital role in coordinating and supporting the day-to-day operations of your assigned pediatric team. You’ll provide clinical leadership, guide program planning and evaluation, support staff development, and participate in resource allocation and recruitment. Building strong partnerships with interdisciplinary colleagues, families, and the community is central to the role. You’ll work with various interdisciplinary members to support the growth and development of the inpatient unit as a whole. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact—shaping care for children while empowering a team of dedicated professionals to thrive. If you are passionate about pediatric rehabilitation, skilled in clinical practice, and energized by mentoring and leading others, we’d love to hear from you.
Description:

As a Physiotherapist II, you will provide coordination of physiotherapy and other allied health clinical services. You will provide supervision of students and team members as assigned. You will work both independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team 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 physiotherapy 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 coordinating 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 participate in program development and operational planning and representing the department on committees or programs. You will make decisions on staffing level requirements, workflow, caseload priorities in collaboration with managers and other healthcare providers. AHS is dedicated to supporting our Physiotherapists in their practice area and expanding their skillsets regardless of location. All AHS Physiotherapists have access to a list of experienced clinicians across the province and are able to tap into this resource via email, phone and virtual meetings. As we transition to our Provincial Electronic Medical Record (Connect Care) you will also be able to share patient information real time with these senior clinicians to assist you in providing high quality care.

• Classification: Physiotherapist II
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Physical Therapy
• Primary Location: Glenrose Rehabilitation Hsp
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

FTE: 1.00

• Posting End Date: 30-JUL-2025
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
• Date Available: 29-SEP-2025
• Temporary End Date: 11-JAN-2027
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $41.12
• Maximum Salary: $54.61
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
  Required Qualifications:
  Master’s degree in Physiotherapy from an accredited university program or bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy from an accredited university program and related experience. Active or eligible registration and practice permit with the College of Physiotherapists of Alberta.Additional Required Qualifications:
  5 years’ experience working as a Pediatric Physical Therapist in a multidisciplinary team. Strong communication skills—written, verbal, and digital—are essential for success in this role. We’re looking for someone who thrives in a physically active environment, you will need to have the ability to perform lifts, transfers, repositioning, and other hands-on tasks integral to pediatric care. You will need to have experience working with children who are subacute with varying diagnosis such as cerebral palsy – post operative, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and multi-traumas. Just as important, you will need to be able to lead by example—modeling resilience, adaptability, and a positive approach in today’s ever-changing health care landscape.Preferred Qualifications:
  Experience with Connect Care. Experience in leading or coordinating services; and teams, while working closely with Physicians and interdisciplinary members is strongly recommended. Previous experience with wheelchair/seating assessment and prescription is an asset.

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