Occupational Therapist I

Your Opportunity:

The Occupational Therapist I (OT) works within the Young Adult Services (YAS) Recovery Supports team. YAS Recovery Supports team provides recovery-oriented, developmentally appropriate services for young adults aged 16–25 who experience addiction and/or mental health challenges. The program functions as a lead service provider for clients requiring Level of Care Utilization System (LOCUS) levels 1 and 2 (recovery maintenance and low-intensity community-based services), and as a complementary care provider for clients receiving services at LOCUS levels 3, 4, and 5, in partnership with other primary or intensive services. As the OT on the YAS Recovery Supports team, you will work collaboratively with Recreation Therapists and Rehabilitation Practitioners to deliver individualized services that enhance occupational engagement and promote skill development. Clients are supported in working toward goals related to community life functioning, personal effectiveness & wellbeing, living situation, education, and employment. The OT manages a caseload of clients. Services are tailored based on each clients goals, preferences, and needs. Interventions are delivered on both an individual basis as well as group offerings. The OT brings a recovery-oriented, holistic perspective to assessment, intervention, and group facilitation, with a focus on enhancing functioning across multiple life domains. This includes providing outreach, community-based sessions to address barriers to participation, and supporting clients in developing independence, self-regulation, and meaningful engagement in their chosen roles.

Description:

As an Occupational Therapist (OT), you will provide evidence-informed services, with a focus on occupational performance designed to meet the needs of individuals, groups, or a community. You may act as a direct service provider, consultant, educator, or advocate and function as an integral health care team member. You will engage individuals, groups, and communities to enable meaningful and chosen occupations, including self-care, productivity and leisure. You will support clients to achieve optimum functional abilities and independence related to their cognitive, affective, spiritual, and physical strengths and limitations. As an OT, you will provide comprehensive services, including triage, screening, consultation, assessment, diagnosis, collaborative goal setting, treatment, prevention, self-management, education, case management, referral, transition support, and collaboration with relevant and chosen stakeholders and supports within the client¿s physical, institutional, cultural, and social environments. You will include clients and families as integral members of the health care team, encouraging their active participation in all aspects of care. You will collaborate with clients and families in determining, implementing, and evaluating rehabilitation. You will participate in a variety of interprofessional teams to build awareness, enrich support and engage in quality improvement by partnering with healthcare providers, patients, families, and other stakeholders to advance services for the clients. You will contribute to quality improvement and their professional community and participate in peer mentoring and supervising students. You may also provide clinical supervision to Therapy Assistants and Therapy Aides.