Occupational Therapist, Trillium Acute Care

Homewood Health; Guelph; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading mental health organization as an Occupational Therapist in Guelph, Ontario. You'll be part of a collaborative team providing comprehensive assessments and interventions for patients in acute care settings. Your expertise will help in developing innovative programs aimed at improving patient outcomes and ensuring their recovery journey is successful. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applicants from all backgrounds.

Qualifications

• Must be a member of the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario.
• Experience working with acute psychiatric distress.
• Ability to work collaboratively within recovery-oriented models.

Responsibilities

• Provide client assessments and interventions in both individual and group formats.
• Coordinate discharge plans with care partners.
• Develop and evaluate program components with interdisciplinary teams.

Skills

Body Mechanics

Early Intervention

Communication skills

Patient Service Experience

Education

Graduate of a recognized Occupational Therapy Program

Job description

Make a difference in a growing innovative mental health organization and centre of excellence in people-centered care. Work with supportive colleagues who are passionate about improving lives and champions for quality and continuous learning.

As an Occupational Therapist you will be an integral part of a collaborative inter-disciplinary team focused on delivering seamless services and programs to our patients and customers. If you are looking for a company that is constantly moving forward in pursuit of successful outcomes get ready to love it here!

What youll be doing :

• Function as a clinical member of the interdisciplinary team in providing the appropriate treatment approaches to clients within the Trillium Acute Care program
• Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to provide both generic and Occupational Therapy specific assessments and interventions
• Provide specialized functional cognitive mobility and activities of daily living assessments and interventions
• Deliver interventions in 1 : 1 and group formats
• Engage with formal and informal care partners and community resources to complete thorough assessments and coordinate successful discharge plans
• Deliver Continuous Quality Improvement reports and program evaluation activities
• Develop new program components and evaluate programs to modify existing services in collaboration with team partners
• Some evening and weekend work is required

What were looking for :

• Graduate of a recognized Occupational Therapy Program
• College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario membership is a requirement
• Experience working with persons in acute psychiatric distress and with those living with severe and persistent mental health illness and addiction is essential
• Ability to work collaboratively with consumers families hospitals acute and emergency units and community agencies within an integrated recovery-oriented and medical model approach
• Awareness and acknowledgement of the value of using measurement-based care when supporting patients / clients to help guide clinical decision making; experience an asset
• Knowledge of acute crisis services and crisis intervention skills
• Knowledge of addictions; substance use frameworks and psychotherapy approaches are an asset
• Ability to quickly establish supportive trusting relationships with the target population
• Experience with group facilitation
• Treatment experience related to IADL issues concurrent addictions strategies motivational interviewing practice and development of goal attainment strategies

As part of our commitment to the health and safety of our patients staff and community from COVID-19 subject to any accommodation required by applicable human rights legislation Homewood Health Centre requires that all staff have received all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine approved by Health Canada.

Why work with us

Homewood Health is Canadas 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.

Join us at Homewood Health and be part of a diverse team helping Canadians live healthier more productive and fulfilling lives.

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Key Skills

Body Mechanics,Early Intervention,Acute Care,Communication skills,HIPAA,Autism Experience,Computer Literacy,Pediatrics Experience,Home Care,Heavy Lifting,Patient Service Experience,Medicare

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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