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 services that include client assessments, treatments and the development of care plans to meet the needs of clients of all ages, with a broad range of physical and psycho-social disabilities;
- plan and provide interventions to enhance, maintain or restore each individual’s ability to function at an optimal level for them; 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 function at an optimal level in all chosen roles by:
o completing assessments and synthesizing findings to support client goals in the creation of a care plan;
o developing and leading goal-based individualized and group treatment programs to optimize and support independent function;
o evaluating the effectiveness of interventions in reaching established goals; and
o reviewing and maintaining 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;
- acts as care coordinator for clients, which includes client assessments, coordinating, reviewing and evaluating services, and making appropriate referrals within and outside the program;
- coordinates an ongoing review of practice guidelines, by updating best-practice protocols, policies and procedures;
- supervises clinical placements for physiotherapy students and STEP students; and
- ensures personal professional development is ongoing 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 Physiotherapy;
- experience as a physiotherapist, providing assessment and treatment preferably in a community environment would be considered an asset;
- experience working in rural communities is an asset;
- TB screening;
- vulnerable sector RCMP security clearance;
- CPR level C (course taken within the past 2.5 years at time of hire;
- WHMIS 2015;
- valid Yukon driver’s license; and
- licensed to work in the Yukon as a physiotherapist.
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.