Requisition ID: 372243
Position Number: 20017644
Posting End Date: December 20, 2024
City: Winnipeg
Employer: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Site: WRHA Community Health Services - 4-496 Hargrave Street
Department / Unit: WRHA Home Care Community Stroke Care Service
Job Stream: Clinical
Union: MAHCP
Anticipated Start Date: 01/20/2025
FTE: 0.50
Anticipated Shift: Days;Evenings;Weekends
Work Arrangement: In Person
Daily Hours Worked: 7.25
Annual Base Hours: 1885
Salary: $39.898, $41.093, $42.328, $43.597, $44.903
Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region! Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites, services and organizations. We're united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.
Provides quality Occupational Therapy services, consistent with discipline and professional standards including: prevention, identification, evaluation, assessment, education, use of interventions and management of occupational performance components and performance areas; education and supervision of students and professionals; consultation with and referral to other professionals; and research. Maintains professional accountability, professional judgement and reasoning with a high-level of communication and collaboration.
The Community Stroke Care Service is a centralized service within the Home Care Program that offers case coordination services, Home Care support and intensive rehabilitation services to individuals who are discharged from an acute care site or an inpatient stroke rehabilitation unit following an acute stroke. The objectives of this Early Supported Discharge service includes to provide efficient, timely and enhanced community services to assist persons with a stroke to maximize recovery, functional independence, smooth transition from hospital to home and enable client to remain in a community setting for as long as possible.
This position will provide an opportunity to gain new knowledge and skills, work within an interprofessional team, and contribute positively to the quality of life for persons with a stroke. The successful candidate will also participate in service evaluation and further development.
This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.
Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.
Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.
Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.