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Reporting to the Executive Director of Provincial Rehabilitation Practice and Strategic Planning, the Provincial Rehabilitation Senior Practice Consultant is a position within Allied Health Professions in Health Professions Strategy and Practice. This role supports occupational therapy-specific and interprofessional rehabilitation initiatives related to advancing evidence-informed clinical and professional rehabilitation practices to provide safe, effective, appropriate, and efficient patient care. The role collaborates with operational and practice leaders and frontline clinicians to adopt, adapt, and enact optimized rehabilitation practices to achieve optimized patient outcomes – including population needs, core clinical activities, standardized services and approaches, professional practice, and education. The role integrates the Rehabilitation Model of Care into occupational therapy-specific and interprofessional rehabilitation services to strengthen and improve the patient experience.

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The Provincial Rehabilitation Senior Practice Consultant is a role in the Health Professions Strategy and Practice Portfolio that reports to the Executive Director of Provincial Rehabilitation Practice and Strategic Planning in Allied Health Professions. This position provides leadership, coaching, and counsel to practice leaders, operational leaders, and frontline clinicians at local, zone, and provincial levels. The role is responsible for leading the creation, transfer, adoption, and mobilization of knowledge between operational and practice leaders and the Allied Health Professions Team. The role develops, implements, integrates, and evaluates provincial rehabilitation initiatives, professional practice standards, education, guidelines, care pathways and standard services. The role facilitates change adoption for provincial rehabilitation initiatives. The role implements the Rehabilitation Model of Care with practice leaders, operational leaders, and frontline clinicians at local, zone, and provincial levels, including allied health rehabilitation patient survey metrics, standardized services, and education priorities across the adult and pediatric care continuum. The role grows and maintains strong working relationships with practice and operational leaders in the zones and with key internal and external partners.