Therapy Assistant

Your Opportunity:
The newly opened Grande Prairie Regional Hospital provides a variety of career development opportunities. Grande Prairie is a growing city with over 60,000 residents and serving 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, a few museums, and live theater. There are also a multitude of dining and shopping opportunities. Your Opportunity Your opportunity is in a fast paced, dynamic, multi-disciplinary acute care setting including possible placements in the Stroke Unit Equivalency Care team, In-patient Rehabilitation, Surgery and Medicine. We also have out patient opportunities including a Hand Clinic, High Risk Foot Clinic and general Out-patients. Our department is focused on the trained therapy assistant functioning at full scope, and with continuous development. We would love the opportunity to speak with you to share the opportunities and discuss your areas of interest. Our manager’s phone number is 780 538 7360. Along with a variety of career development opportunities, we offer a competitive rate of pay, a Remote Retention Allowance to an annual maximum of $3,000. This allowance is non-pensionable 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.
Acute Care Alberta:
Primary Care Alberta:
Recovery Alberta: N
Classification: Therapy Assistant
Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
Unit and Program: Grande Prairie Regional Hospital
Primary Location: Grande Prairie Rgnl Hospital
Location Details: As Per Location
Multi-Site: Not Applicable
FTE: 1.00
Posting End Date: 14-APR-2025
Employee Class: Regular Full Time
Date Available: 24-APR-2025
Hours per Shift: 7.75
Length of Shift in weeks: 2
Shifts per cycle: 10
Shift Pattern: Days
Days Off: As Per Rotation
Minimum Salary: $25.11
Maximum Salary: $31.48
Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Completion of diploma from an accredited post-secondary rehabilitation Therapy Assistant program or equivalent training may be considered.
Additional Required Qualifications:
As required.
Preferred Qualifications:
As required.

Canada
Alberta
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