Physiotherapist I

Your Opportunity:

Are you looking for an opportunity to utilize and broaden your Physical Therapy skills? Medicine Hat is a thriving city in southeastern Alberta, known for its sunshine, river valley trails, and strong sense of community. Located along the Trans-Canada Highway, it offers the perfect balance of urban amenities and small-city charm, with easy access to outdoor recreation and a growing healthcare network. If you're passionate about providing high-quality physiotherapy care and are interested in working with a dynamic and innovative team, this may be the opportunity for you! Whether you're a new graduate or an experienced clinician, our team provides a supportive environment to grow your career and make a meaningful impact in the lives of Albertans. You will have the opportunity to use your skills in a variety of areas within the health care system, including acute care, outpatients, and community settings. This role allows you to work with adult clients across multiple clinical environments and fully utilize the scope of your physiotherapy practice. Supervision of Therapy Assistants is also part of the role. Travel to provide services at other sites may be required. This is your chance to work across all streams of care—Acute Care, Community, and Outpatient—on a rotational basis, gaining diverse experience and making a meaningful impact in the lives of Albertans.

Description:

As the Physiotherapist I (PT), you will provide therapeutic interventions to enable clients to achieve optimum physical function and independence in development, disease, disability, chronic conditions, illness and functional decline. You will provide intervention (i.e. prevention, triage, screening, assessment, diagnosis, goal setting, treatment, management, education, consultation, fostering resourcefulness, case management, referral and transition support to individuals, groups, populations and communities. You will include clients and families as integral members of the health care team, encouraging their active participation in all aspects of care. The PT collaborates with patient(s) and families in determining, implementing and evaluating appropriate rehabilitation strategies. You will participate in a variety of interprofessional teams to build awareness, enrich supports and engage in quality improvement; partnering with healthcare providers, patients, families and other stakeholders to advance services for their clients. You will contribute to quality improvement and their professional community; participates in peer mentoring; and supervises students. You may provide clinical supervision to Therapy Assistants, Therapy Aides and Provisional Physiotherapists.