Your Opportunity:

Join our team as a Physiotherapist and make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients in Acute Care, Continuing Care, and Home Care. As a generalist, you'll be responsible for assessing, treating, educating, and collaborating with clients to help them achieve their goals. This rewarding and fulfilling role will see you independently managing and prioritizing your caseload, conducting comprehensive assessments, developing treatment plans, and providing clinical leadership. In addition to providing one-on-one care, you'll also lead and participate in group treatment programs, provide training and mentorship to students and therapy assistants, and have the opportunity to contribute to program development and research projects. You'll have access to a network of experienced clinicians across the province, allowing you to collaborate and share patient information in real-time to ensure the best possible outcomes. If you're looking for a challenging and rewarding career where you can make a difference in people's lives, this is the opportunity for you. Barrhead is a picturesque town just 1.5 hours north of Edmonton with both rural charm and modern amenities. For more information about this vibrant community, please visit [https://rhpap.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/RHPAP_COMMUNITYPROFILE_BARRHEAD_8.5x11_JULY2023.pdf].

Description:

As a Physiotherapist II, you will provide coordination of physiotherapy and other allied health clinical services. You will provide supervision of students and team members as assigned. You will work both independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team providing leadership to other healthcare professionals. You will be making day-to-day clinical decisions on patient/family needs regarding assessment, intervention, discharge and follow-up. You will make decisions and advise team members on complex clinical cases and provide clinical leadership within the program or service area to ensure safe, efficient and effective client care. You will ensure physiotherapy practice is evidence based and in alignment with Alberta legislation and regulations, professional standards of practice, code of ethics and AHS policy and guidelines. You will be coordinating the day-to-day operations of an assigned service area and monitoring care delivery, identifying service needs and assisting other medical staff with caseload management, completing chart audits and providing follow-up and feedback to staff. You will participate in program development and operational planning and representing the department on committees or programs. You will make decisions on staffing level requirements, workflow, caseload priorities in collaboration with managers and other healthcare providers. AHS is dedicated to supporting our Physiotherapists in their practice area and expanding their skillsets regardless of location. All AHS Physiotherapists have access to a list of experienced clinicians across the province and are able to tap into this resource via email, phone and virtual meetings. As we transition to our Provincial Electronic Medical Record (Connect Care) you will also be able to share patient information real time with these senior clinicians to assist you in providing high quality care.