Your Opportunity:
Reporting to the manager and under the clinical direction and supervision of a Recreation Therapist, the Therapist Assistant will contribute to effective and efficient recreation programs in groups or in the client’s home environment. The Therapy Assistant works collaboratively with the members of the Home Care team within the Calgary Zone Integrated Home Care program. The Therapist Assistant fulfills four key roles: Service provider: supports the client and assists the Therapist with direct and indirect client care and non-client care service provision, including functional and goal orientated services to clients. Collaborator: works effectively with internal and external partners to optimize services. Lifelong Learner: enhances competency and service through reflective practice and continuous learning. Paraprofessional: Applies professionalism and ethics to the provision of person-centered care and participation in care teams.
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.
Required Qualifications:Completion of diploma from an accredited post-secondary rehabilitation Therapy Assistant program or equivalent training may be considered.
Additional Required Qualifications:Diploma from an approved post-secondary Therapist Assistant or Therapeutic Recreation program or applicable equivalent training ( linguistics degree, kinesiology degree, hearing aid practitioner diploma or internationally educated rehabilitation therapist). Requires basic rescuer annual CPR certification.
Preferred Qualifications:Experience with recreational programming and running group activities.
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