Occupational Therapist I

Your Opportunity:

Make a meaningful impact as an Occupational Therapist I within the Recovery Supports Day Program. You will join a dynamic, interdisciplinary team supporting individuals living with addiction and/or mental health concerns to build practical skills, strengthen independence, and reconnect with meaningful daily life. In this role, you will bring a holistic, recovery-oriented approach to assessment, intervention, and evaluation while maintaining the uniqueness of each individual within a group-based service delivery model. Group facilitation is a primary component of this position, and you will lead and co-facilitate therapeutic and psychoeducational groups within the Day Program. In addition to group-based work, you will provide individualized assessment and short-term intervention for participants requiring targeted support. Using your expertise in functional assessment, cognition, and skill development, you will help clients achieve real-world outcomes related to community functioning and self-management. You will collaborate closely with clients, families, and community partners to strengthen natural supports, foster resilience, and support successful transitions. This is a fast-paced, team-focused environment that values innovation, evidence-informed practice, and continuous improvement. You will also contribute to program development, quality improvement initiatives, and ongoing evaluation activities. This position is ideal for an OT who is passionate about recovery-focused practice, thrives in group facilitation, and is motivated to contribute to innovative, community-based mental health and addiction services.

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.