Therapy Assistant

Your Opportunity:

Discover your niche in a dynamic psychiatry program that includes general, adolescent, and geriatric psychiatry, as well as psychiatric ICU located in the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital. Grande Prairie is a growing city with over 70,000 residents and serves approximately 260,000 people in our area. Grande Prairie has something for everyone! Outdoor and indoor recreation opportunities are available at the numerous parks and golf courses, in addition to a state-of-the-art recreation facility and library. The city also has a vibrant arts and culture community with an art gallery, museums, and live theater. There are also a multitude of dining and shopping opportunities. You will play a key role in supporting clients to participate in recreation programming, working in collaboration with and under the support of the Recreation Therapist. You will be responsible for social and leisure program planning and implementation, program organization, facilitating leisure education group sessions, monitoring and documentation of treatment plan goals, monitoring inventory, performing general equipment maintenance, supervising and actively participating in recreation activities with clients. In addition to a competitive rate of pay, AHS currently has a Remote Retention Allowance in place to an annual maximum of $3,000. This allowance is non-pensionable and is payable on an hourly basis for all hours paid at the basic rate of pay.

Description:

As a Therapy Assistant, you will work both individually and as part of an interprofessional team under the assignment, monitoring and evaluation of an audiologist, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, recreation therapist or speech-language pathologist. You will contribute to effective and efficient rehabilitation services including direct and indirect client care across the health care continuum (healthy living, getting better, living with illness and disability, end of life care) for all ages as well as non-client service provision. This role will require you to work effectively with internal and external partners, and display professionalism and strong ethics in both client centered care and participation in care teams. You will demonstrate evidence of reflective thinking and lifelong learning that enhances individual and team competency. You will have opportunities to use your interpersonal and clinical skills in contributing to quality improvement, program planning and student supervision.