Therapy Assistant - Jobs in Barrhead, AB

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Your Opportunity:The Therapist Assistant fulfills four key roles: Service Provider: Supports the patient/client and assists the Recreation Therapist with direct and indirect client care and non-client service provision, including functional and goal oriented services to clients, families, groups, and communities. Collaborator: Works effectively with internal and external partners to optimize services. Life Long Learner: Enhances competency/service through reflective practice & continuous learning. Paraprofessional: Applies professionalism and ethics to the provision of person-centered care and participation in care teams. Documents client activity, status, and response to therapeutic intervention within established documentation guidelines. Promotes client independence in daily living activities and motivates clients to actively participate in designated therapy program. Provides clear directions to the client/caregiver, partners, volunteers and students participating in individual and community programs. Selects, prepares, assists with, and facilitates individual and group rehabilitation activities and strategies from the care plan. Recognizes potential risks, client limitations, changes in client status, and adverse reactions, and adapts or refrains from activities accordingly (e.g. suspends treatment in response to fatigue) and/or engages other resources appropriately and reports these changes/actions to supervising therapist. Screens clients using established protocols and procedures and administers specific components of standardized assessment tools as assigned by the Recreation Therapist. Participates in ongoing communication with the Recreation Therapist to optimize service delivery.Description: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.

• Classification: Therapy Assistant
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Department: NZ BARRHEAD CC Recreation
• Primary Location: Barrhead Continuing Care
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 20-JAN-2022
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• Date Available: 30-JAN-2022
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 6
• Shifts per cycle: 30
• Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $24.08
• Maximum Salary: $30.18
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:Completion of diploma from an accredited post-secondary rehabilitation Therapy Assistant program or equivalent training may be considered.Additional Required Qualifications:Valid BCLS-HCP certificate. Diploma from an approved post-secondary Therapeutic Recreation program or applicable equivalent training. Evidence of strong interpersonal and communication skills. Evidence of maturity, initiative, flexibility, and willingness to work in an environment of on-going change. Evidence of awareness of community resources. Evidence of motivation to perform workload with minimum supervision. Evidence of patience, tact, pleasant manner and confidentiality in contact with residents. May be subject to verbally and/or physically aggressive clients and/or family.Preferred Qualifications:Previous experience working in a Therapeutic Recreation position with seniors and/or individuals with challenges desired. Experience in a health care setting preferred.Quick Apply

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