Occupational Therapist

Homewood Health Inc.; Surrey; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Homewood Health Inc. in Surrey, BC, is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to conduct comprehensive assessments and develop return-to-work plans for adults with mental health and disability concerns.

The role emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, evidence-based practice, and high-quality documentation to support functional recovery and workplace reintegration.

You will supervise students, participate in treatment planning, and collaborate in a supportive, equity-minded workplace.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited program.
• Current registration in good standing with the provincial OT College.
• Experience providing OT services to adults with mental health, psychological injury, rehabilitation, disability management, or return-to-work needs.
• Knowledge of OT assessment frameworks, functional capacity evaluation, and vocational rehabilitation principles.
• Experience developing and implementing individualized treatment, rehabilitation, and return-to-work plans.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate both individual and group-based therapeutic interventions.
• Knowledge of workplace accommodations, disability management, and return-to-work best practices.
• Strong clinical assessment, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent report writing, documentation, and communication abilities.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships with clients, employers, referral sources, and interdisciplinary team members.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and client-centered care.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage a diverse caseload in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience supporting students, interns, or professional learners is considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive occupational therapy assessments to identify functional, cognitive, emotional, psychosocial, and environmental factors impacting recovery and return-to-work readiness.
• Complete initial screening assessments to identify barriers affecting functioning, recovery, and workplace reintegration.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate individualized treatment, rehabilitation, and return-to-work plans that support functional improvement and sustainable work outcomes.
• Administer, interpret, and analyze standardized and non-standardized OT assessments, incorporating client goals into treatment planning.
• Provide individual OT interventions, counselling, coaching, and skills development to enhance daily functioning and vocational performance.
• Facilitate evidence-informed group interventions (therapeutic, psychoeducational, skills-based).
• Collaborate with clients, families, employers, workers' compensation, referral sources, and stakeholders to address return-to-work barriers.
• Develop gradual return-to-work plans and provide recommendations on functional capacity, accommodations, restrictions, and prognosis.
• Participate in interdisciplinary assessments, case reviews, treatment planning, and discharge planning.
• Prepare timely, high-quality clinical documentation including assessment reports, treatment plans, progress notes, and discharge summaries.
• Support clients in improving daily living activities, work performance, social participation, and occupational functioning.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships to ensure continuity of care and positive outcomes.
• Contribute to program development, quality improvement, outcome measurement, and evidence-based practice.
• Provide supervision and mentorship to students and interns as required.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Problem-solving

Report writing

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Occupational Therapy

Licensed/registered with provincial OT college

Job description

• Conduct comprehensive occupational therapy assessments to identify functional, cognitive, emotional, psychosocial, and environmental factors impacting recovery and return-to-work readiness.
• Complete initial screening assessments to identify medical and non-medical barriers affecting functioning, recovery, and workplace reintegration.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate individualized treatment, rehabilitation, and return-to-work plans that support functional improvement and sustainable work outcomes.
• Administer, interpret, and analyze standardized and non-standardized occupational therapy assessments, incorporating client goals and perspectives into treatment planning.
• Provide individual occupational therapy interventions, counselling, coaching, and skills development to enhance daily functioning, vocational performance, and community participation.
• Facilitate evidence-informed therapeutic, psychoeducational, skills-based, and activity-focused group interventions.
• Collaborate with clients, families, employers, Workers' Compensation Boards, referral sources, and other stakeholders to address return-to-work barriers and support successful workplace reintegration.
• Develop gradual return-to-work plans and provide recommendations regarding functional capacity, workplace accommodations, restrictions, limitations, and prognosis.
• Participate actively in interdisciplinary assessments, case reviews, treatment planning, therapeutic interventions, and discharge planning.
• Prepare timely, comprehensive, and high-quality clinical documentation, including assessment reports, treatment plans, progress updates, and discharge summaries.
• Support clients in improving activities of daily living, work performance, social participation, and overall occupational functioning.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure continuity of care and positive client outcomes.
• Contribute to program development, quality improvement initiatives, outcome measurement, and evidence-based practice activities.
• Provide supervision, mentorship, and support to students and interns as required.

What we're looking for:

• Master's degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited university program.
• Current registration in good standing with the applicable provincial College of Occupational Therapists.
• Experience providing occupational therapy services to adults with mental health, psychological injury, rehabilitation, disability management, or return-to-work needs.
• Strong knowledge of occupational therapy assessment frameworks, functional capacity evaluation, and vocational rehabilitation principles.
• Experience developing and implementing individualized treatment, rehabilitation, and return-to-work plans.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate both individual and group-based therapeutic interventions.
• Knowledge of workplace accommodations, disability management, workers' compensation processes, and return-to-work best practices.
• Strong clinical assessment, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent report writing, documentation, and communication abilities.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships with clients, employers, referral sources, and interdisciplinary team members.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and client-centered care.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage a diverse caseload in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience supporting students, interns, or professional learners is considered an asset.

Homewood Health promotes a fair and competitive compensation model. Pay rates are tailored to reflect differences in operating environments and job requirements. Compensation is influenced by many factors including compensation principles or approach for a role or job function, organizational tenure, experience, qualifications or premium skills, external competitiveness, internal comparability, geography and work performance.

Why work with us

Homewood Health is Canada’s largest and leading service provider for medically focused, evidence-based treatment of mental health and addiction disorders. Our organizational culture values service excellence, integrity, collaboration and innovation. Our people make a difference!

As an equal opportunity employer, Homewood Health is committed to employment accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion. For this reason, we encourage applications from members of equity-seeking groups including women, racialized and indigenous communities, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.

This job posting is for an existing vacant position within the organization. Join us at Homewood Health and be part of a diverse team helping Canadians live healthier, more productive and fulfilling lives.