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    Occupational Therapist I - Grande Prairie, Canada - Alberta Health Services

    Alberta Health Services
    Alberta Health Services Grande Prairie, Canada

    3 days ago

    Alberta Health Services background
    Regular Full time
    Description

    Your Opportunity:

    Explore an enriching opportunity within a comprehensive psychiatry program at the newly established Grande Prairie Regional Hospital (GPRH) in Northern Alberta. This cutting-edge facility serves as a beacon of healthcare for nearly 400,000 residents in Northern Alberta, offering specialized care in general, adolescent, and geriatric psychiatry. Joining our passionate interdisciplinary team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering excellence in patient care on a daily basis. Embrace the warmth of Northern Alberta's community and immerse yourself in the beauty of the region while enjoying the amenities of Grande Prairie a growing city with a vibrant arts scene, diverse recreational offerings, and numerous dining and shopping opportunities. In addition to competitive pay rates, AHS offers a Remote Retention Allowance of up to $3,000 annually, further enhancing the overall compensation package. Don't miss the chance to make a difference in healthcare and experience personal and professional growth in one of Alberta's most promising healthcare hubs.

    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.

    Required Qualifications:

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

    Additional Required Qualifications:

    As required.

    Preferred Qualifications:

    Connect Care experience is an asset. Experience in inpatient psychiatry or other addictions and mental health is an asset. Work with young adult or geriatric populations is an asset.



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