What you can expect/get in this role:
- Flexible work options;
- start your employment with 4 weeks vacation, plus sick leave and special leave;
- competitive pay and benefits, professional growth and leadership learning opportunities;
- relocation assistance may be considered;
- working in a place voted as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers; and
- a lifestyle that allows you to access our vast backyard and thriving culture and arts scene.
What we do:
- Provide clinical care services for clients with physical, cognitive, social and/or emotional impairments;
- offer client assessments, interventions, and care plan recommendations to enhance, maintain, improve or restore the ability of clients to participate in meaningful self-care, leisure and other activities. They evaluate progress and delegate tasks to rehabilitation assistants to provide additional support for their clients; and
- work closely with their interdisciplinary team to enable Yukoners to remain in their own homes as long as possible while receiving evidence-based quality health and personal care.
Job description:
- Provides clinical care services for clients with physical, mental and social and/or emotional impairments through direct care and consultations to enhance, maintain, improve or restore the ability to participate in meaningful self-care, leisure or productive activities;
- completes assessments and synthesizes findings to support client goals in the creation of a care plan;
- develops and leads goal-based individualized and group treatment programs to optimize and support independent function;
- evaluates the effectiveness of interventions in reaching established goals;
- reviews and maintains client charts to record and communicate client progress, recommendations and required follow-up;
- provides clinical direction to therapy or rehabilitation assistants for the implementation of individualized programs;
- provides training and education to program staff. Develops, delivers and evaluates evidence-based in-services, education sessions and orientations to members of the team;
- recommends and procures equipment to maintain and/or improve function, which includes the completion of scientific reviews and funding applications;
- coordinates an ongoing review of practice guidelines, by updating best-practice protocols, policies and procedures;
- supervises clinical placements for occupational therapy students; and
- ensures personal professional development by reviewing relevant literature, consulting with clinical and community experts, evaluating clinical practice and participating in professional development activities.
Training:
- Extensive orientation related to our philosophy of care and evidence-based policies, as well as regular educational opportunities to maintain clinical skills and best practices;
- broad course offerings through our internal professional development system called YG Learn;
- support for career and professional growth through internal assignment opportunities; and
- partial financial support for approved professional development and educational programs.
Recruiting process
Interested applicants apply on our website www.YUKON.ca by creating a career profile.
At each step of the recruitment process, candidates are notified by email if they have been successful and if they will be moving to the next step:
Step 1. Resume is reviewed and candidate is notified.
Step 2. Written assignment (if required).
Step 3. Interview.
Step 4. Reference checks.
Step 5. Conditions of employment.
Step 6. Offer of employment.
Job requirements:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in occupational therapy;
- experience as an occupational therapist providing assessments and treatments in a community environment and a long-term care setting is an asset;
- experience supervising support staff is an asset;
- TB screening;
- vulnerable sector RCMP security clearance;
- CPR level C (course taken within the last 2.5 years at time of hire);
- WHMIS 2015;
- valid Yukon driver’s license; and
- current registration with a Canadian Occupational Therapy regulator body.
Branch profile/spotlight
The Government of Yukon's Home Care program works closely with medical facilities, community partners, First Nations governments and other government programs to enable Yukoners of all ages to receive high-quality, evidence-based and best-practice health and support services while remaining in their home environments and communities. Services can include care coordination, social work, home support, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing and collaborative speech therapy.