Therapy Assistant

Your opportunity is to work in an award winning trans-disciplinary program providing specialized stroke care in the client’s home. As our therapy assistant, under supervision from the Clinical Coordinator of the Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team, you will be implementing trans-disciplinary treatment programs as developed by the client and the team. There will be a focus on trans-disciplinary care planning and a focus on assessment of outcomes. The program requires you to function to full scope and with a high degree of independence. The treatment will be provided within the trans-disciplinary model, with an emphasis on Client and Family Centered Care. You will participate in client teaching, provide consultation and in-servicing, communicate with family, co-workers and other members of the health care team, and perform documentation as required. You accept responsibility for continuing competencies through ongoing professional development including participation in education programs, research and continuous quality activities. You will provide care within the full scope of practice. The successful candidate is diligent, creative, flexible, reliable and can communicate, both written and verbally effectively. In addition to a competitive rate of pay, AHS currently has a Remote Retention Allowance in place to an annual maximum of $3,000. 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.

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