Occupational Therapist II

Your Opportunity:

We are seeking an innovative, flexible, and collaborative individual to join our team within the Red Deer Children's Mental Health and Addiction portfolio. These services provide recovery-oriented, strengths-based care to children and youth experiencing complex mental health and/or addiction challenges. Based primarily within the Step Up Step Down program, which provides live-in treatment to youth ages 13-17, this role offers the rare opportunity for relationship-based practice and family involvement within an inpatient mental health setting. As the Occupational Therapist, you will play a key role in delivering recovery-oriented services by providing comprehensive assessment, consultation, and treatment planning related to sensory processing, interoception, regulation skills, daily living skills, executive functioning, and community participation. You will also be responsible for facilitating group interventions and providing parent/caregiver education and coaching as appropriate. As part of the multidisciplinary team, you will work closely with other dedicated professionals including our psychologist, psychiatrist, recreation therapist, family therapist, child life specialist, social workers, nurses, and teachers to provide effective, evidenced-based patient care and discharge planning. This unique position also has the opportunity to contribute to ongoing program development initiatives and potential for further community-based intervention. If this sounds like a role where you can bring your creativity, passion, and expertise, we encourage you to apply.

Description:

As an Occupational Therapist II, you will be responsible for the coordination of occupational therapy and other allied health clinical services within a program or service area. You will provide supervision of students and team members as assigned. As an Occupational Therapist II, you will be responsible to work both independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team where you will be an integral member, providing leadership to other healthcare professionals. You will be making day-to-day clinical decisions on patient/family needs regarding assessment, intervention, discharge and follow-up. You will make decisions and advise team members on complex clinical cases and provide clinical leadership within the program or service area to ensure safe, efficient and effective client care. You will ensure occupational therapy practice is evidence-based and in alignment with Alberta legislation and regulations, professional standards of practice, code of ethics and Recovery Alberta policy and guidelines. You will be providing coordination of the day-to-day operations of an assigned service area and monitoring care delivery, identifying service needs and assisting other medical staff with caseload management, completing chart audits and providing follow-up and feedback to staff. You will be participating in program development and operational planning and representing the department on committees or programs. You will be making decisions on staffing level requirements, workflow and caseload priorities in collaboration with managers and other healthcare providers. As assigned, you will carry out the roles of a direct clinical service provider, consultant, educator and/or advocate in your program or service area.