Therapy Assistant - Long Term Care

The rehabilitative team at Willow Square is looking for a Therapy Assistant to join their team who are focused on enhancing the quality of life for the residents of Willow Square in Long Term Care and Daily Supported Living. You will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to support residents in achieving greater mobility, independence, and engagement in their daily activities. In this role, you will monitor, motivate, and provide hands-on assistance during both individual and group therapy sessions. You will be responsible for preparing, organizing, and maintaining therapeutic equipment and activity materials, while also documenting resident participation and reporting progress to supervising therapists. Above all, you will help foster a safe, respectful, and encouraging environment that promotes wellness, dignity, and quality of life for each resident. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about supporting independence and can build and foster meaningful relationships within the team and the residents. Located in beautiful Fort McMurray which resides on Treaty 8 territory, the largest treaty by area in the history of Canada and on the traditional lands of the Metis. This family forward city is in a valley where the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers meet in the forested Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo home to the largest national park in Canada. Enjoy modern amenities, K-12 public and Catholic schools, and lively social, arts, sports, recreational and cultural opportunities for all ages. In addition to a competitive rate of pay, AHS currently has a Fort McMurray Allowance in place to an annual maximum of $12,480. This allowance is non-pensionable and is payable on an hourly basis for all hours paid at the basic rate of pay.

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.

Completion of diploma from an accredited post-secondary rehabilitation Therapy Assistant program or equivalent training may be considered.

Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).

Kinesiologists will be considered for the role, but preference will be given to an experienced Therapy Assistant who has some experience with seniors’ care.