Recreation Therapy Assistant - Jobs in Mayerthorpe, AB

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Your Opportunity:If you enjoy engaging with seniors, youll love working with our residents! Our residents are looking for qualified individuals who have completed their Recreation Therapy Assistant diploma to provide diversional recreation therapy as planned by the Recreation Therapist II. You may also be required to assist the Recreation Therapist II in one-on-one interventional therapeutics as part of our overall program to engage with and provide much-needed support to our seniors. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will help to contribute to the well-being of our residents living at the Mayerthorpe Auxiliary Hospital. The Town of Mayerthorpe prides itself on their friendliness and desire to help. Mayerthorpe is located 123 northwest of Edmonton, on a major route to the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska. Mayerthorpe offers many community groups, recreation facilities, schools, and programs, to keep residents active. Rural Alberta is beautiful, peaceful and provides a great backdrop for a fulfilling career. If nothing feels better than making a difference in the lives of families of your own community, we encourage you to consider Mayerthorpe. Please note, this facility provides Long Term Care (LTC) or Designated Supportive Living (DSL) services and by Order of the Chief Medical Officer of Health, many AHS employees are restricted to work only at a single LTC/DSL site for the remainder of the pandemic. Speak to the hiring manager who will confirm if, as the successful candidate in this position, you will be restricted to work at only one LTC/DLS site in Alberta.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 MTHPE HC Recreation
• Primary Location: Mayerthorpe Health Centre
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 0.69
• Posting End Date: 30-NOV-2021
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp P/T Benefits
• Date Available: 10-DEC-2021
• Temporary End Date: 10-JUN-2022
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 7
• Shift Pattern: Days
• 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:Current certification in Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS -HCP) by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation.Preferred Qualifications:New graduates of a Recreation Therapy Diploma Program are welcome to apply! Previous experience working with and providing therapeutic recreation programming for seniors will be an asset.Quick Apply

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