Therapy Assistant

Your Opportunity:

This position is for someone with experience as a speech language pathology assistant who will work with adult patients in the inpatient and outpatient setting under the supervision of speech language pathologists. You will contribute to effective and efficient rehabilitation services including direct and indirect care with adult and/or pediatric clients in the inpatient and outpatient setting as well as non-client service provision. You will work in a team environment with other speech language pathology assistants, speech language pathologists, and professionals from other disciplines. There will be an expectation of client and family centred care.

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.