Occupational Therapist I
Your Opportunity:
Located in northeastern Alberta, St Paul is a welcoming community of approximately 5,500, serving a surrounding area of nearly 18,000 people. Just 200 km from Edmonton, St. Paul offers a diverse and hands-on experience for individuals seeking a rewarding career in a close-knit and supportive environment. With its peaceful surroundings, active community, and strong sense of connection, it provides an excellent setting for both personal and professional fulfillment. If making a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals and families in your community is important to you, this opportunity may be the perfect fit.
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.
- Classification: Occupational Therapist I
- Union: HSAA Prof/Tech
- Unit and Program: OT Inpatient AMH
- Primary Location: St Therese-St. Paul Hlth Ctr
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.00
- Posting End Date: 12-JUN-2026
- Employee Class: Casual/Relief
- Date Available: 01-JUL-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: Varies
- Shifts per cycle: Varies
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends, On Call
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $42.51
- Maximum Salary: $56.60
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Completion of bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited university program. Registered with the Alberta College of Occupational Therapists (ACOT).
Additional Required Qualifications:ACOT registration eligibility; Current Heart & Stroke Foundation Basic Life Skills (BLS). Knowledge of verbal de-escalation techniques required.
Preferred Qualifications:Experience in administering the Mental Status examination Knowledge of the Mental Health Act. Experience in various risk assessment i.e. Suicide risk, Homicidal risk, violent risk. Knowledge of the addiction and mental health continuum of care.
