Occupational Therapist Degree
Job Description
Position #: 198355
Expected Start Date: October 01, 2024
Union: HSAS
Facility: Swift Current Community Services
City/Town: Swift Current
Department: Physiotherapy
Type: Full-time temporary
Expected Up to Date: April 14, 2025
FTE: 1
Shift Information: Days
Hours of Work: 14 shifts of 8 hours per 3 weeks
Relief: No
Float: No
Field Hours: Yes
Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Occupational Therapist - Degree $38.247 to $46.770
Job Description: The occupational therapist is responsible for a clinical caseload and provides direct care to clients. The occupational therapist is required to provide appropriate assessment and treatment interventions to clients referred to the occupational therapy service, and is responsible for the ongoing monitoring of prescribed interventions with appropriate adjustment or discontinuation of service based on outcome measurement.
Travel Required: No
Human Resources Exemption: No
Education
- Bachelor of Occupational Therapy
Licenses
- Valid Class 5 driver's license
Other Education and Training
- Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
Competencies
- Basic - Capability to engage others: Communicate effectively
- Basic - Communication skills
Knowledge and Abilities
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Requires concentration and attention for resident/patient assessment
- Ability to assist clients dealing with stress, role loss, and other psych issues
- Requires concentration and attention for treatment, teaching and report writing
- Ability to plan, organize/coordinate efforts with other team members
- Ability to adapt to changing conditions
Other Information
- Registered/eligible with Canadian Association of Occupational Therapy (CAOT)
- Registered/eligible with the Saskatchewan Society of Occupational Therapists
- For more information on the city of Swift Current please visit http://www.swiftcurrent.ca/
- Preference to HSAS members as per the SAHO/HSAS Collective Agreement