Occupational Therapist I

🔍 Calgary Zone, Calgary, Peter Lougheed Centre

📁: Occupational Therapy

📅   : ALB00428191 Requisition #

📅   : Apr 20, 2024 Post Date

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Classification: Occupational Therapist I

Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH

Unit and Program: Allied Health

Primary Location: Peter Lougheed Centre

Location Details: As Per Location

Multi-Site: Not Applicable

FTE: 0.80

Posting End Date: 29-APR-2024

Temporary Employee Class: Temp P/T Benefits

Date Available: 09-MAY-2024

Temporary End Date: 08-SEP-2025

Hours per Shift: 7.75

Length of Shift in weeks: 8

Shifts per cycle: 32

Shift Pattern: Days, Weekends

Days Off: As Per Rotation

Minimum Salary: $38.90

Maximum Salary: $51.80

Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Completion of bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited university program. Registered with the Alberta College of Occupational Therapists (ACOT).

Additional Required Qualifications:

Experience working in a large, urban acute care setting within the last 5 years. Job demands: A high level of physical effort is required related to clinical caseload. Includes maintaining a standing position, perform up to a medium level of work (20-50lbs handled occasionally) including bending and/or rotation related to client transfers or therapeutic intervention. Basic Cardiac Life Support – Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP) certification required. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to interact with members of the interdisciplinary team, patients and families in a dynamic health care setting. Demonstrated problem solving, critical thinking and conflict resolution skills. Excellent organizational and time management skills to efficiently organize and prioritize workload to keep pace in a busy multi-disciplinary patient care. Demonstrates behaviours consistent with the values of AHS – Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Safety.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in the following areas preferred: Orthopedics, General Medicine, and Critical Care. Experience working with diverse communities, groups and/or organizations (i.e. ethno-cultural, equity-setting, racialized, faith-based, LGBTQ2S+, vulnerable, marginalized, persons with disabilities, and persons across all age groups, etc.). Previous training in Connect Care an asset.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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