Physiotherapist - Queen's Park Care Centre (QPCC)

Fraser Health Authority; New Westminster; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Fraser Health Authority is seeking a Physiotherapist for the Queen's Park Care Centre. This full-time opportunity involves delivering physiotherapy services to improve patient outcomes in a collaborative environment. The position offers a competitive hourly salary, generous benefits, and contributes to impactful community healthcare.

Benefits

Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits

Generous Vacation Time

Immediate Pension Enrollment

Maternity Top-Up

TransLink Pass Subsidy

Qualifications

• Must have relevant physiotherapy education and credentials.
• Strong ability to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience with patient-centered care is essential.

Responsibilities

• Conduct patient assessments and develop treatment plans.
• Implement interventions and educate patients on self-management.
• Collaborate with healthcare team to ensure quality patient care.

Skills

Knowledge of physiotherapy theory and practice

Effective communication

Ability to work independently

Empathy and respect for patient autonomy

Education

Current full registration with the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC

Job description

Physiotherapist - Queen's Park Care Centre (QPCC)

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Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $42.56 - $52.95 / hour

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $42.56 - $52.95 / hour

Job Summary

We are currently looking to fill a Relief Full-Time opportunity for a Physiotherapist at Queen's Park Care Centre located in New Westminster, B.C. This position is available until September 2025 or until Return of Incumbent.

Queens Park Care Centre (QPCC) is located in New Westminster and provides rehabilitation services, an adult day program and a long-term care community. QPCC has an outpatient rehab service and 76 specialized inpatient rehabilitation beds. These provide intensive rehab for different patient populations including Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke rehab patients as well as lower leg amputees, complex neurological conditions and other muscular skeletal injuries.

Queens Park is a small and friendly site with a close link to its community and a high dependency on it’s multidisciplinary team. An active wellness committee, a strong Foundation partnership and a leafy green location help support our focus on staff wellness. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute towards making a significant difference in patient or resident lives.

New Westminster

Nestled on a picturesque hillside where history meets elegance along the Fraser River

New Westminster, located on a hillside overlooking the Fraser River, is the oldest incorporated city in BC, was once the provincial capital, and remains an urban hub of the Lower Mainland. The Royal City, as it is still known, began as a pioneer settlement and evolved into a stately Victorian city, and today remains graced with many grand Victorian and Edwardian heritage buildings.

New Westminster resides on the traditional, ancestral and unceded shared territories of the qʷɑ:nƛən [Kwantlen] and Qayqayt [key-kite] First Nations, and is home to the North Fraser Métis Association.

Learn more about the dynamic city of New Westminster here: New Westminster

Experience the exceptional benefits of working with us including:

• Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with full coverage.
• Generous Vacation Time: eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation to recharge and relax.
• Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.
• Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.
• Maternity Top-Up: Receive an 87% top-up during maternity leave.
• TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes
• Additional employee discounts and perks available
• Eligibility based on employment status
  
  

Detailed Overview

Provides physiotherapy services in accordance with the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC standards of practice, Fraser Health mission, values and physiotherapy acute care standard, and in collaboration and partnership with the interprofessional care team in the provision of patient and family centered care. Provides assessment, physiotherapy diagnosis and prognosis, treatment plan development, implementation and evaluation, and patient consultation and education to enable the patient to achieve and maintain optimal health outcomes. Participates in approved physical therapy and interprofessional research, special projects, and program quality and safety activities.

Responsibilities

• Provides physiotherapy assessment of the patient's physical status, functional abilities, needs, and goals by methods such as reviewing records, gathering information, interviewing the patient, identifying patient and therapist expectations, selecting and applying evidence-based assessment methods, consulting with members of the health care team, performing examinations, and monitoring the patient's health to improve, maintain or support physical performance.
• Analyzes the patient's needs, establishes physiotherapy diagnosis and prognosis and develops an evidence-based, outcome-focused intervention strategy; utilizes assessment and reassessment findings, discusses the analysis with the patient and caregivers, develops short and long term goals and selects a practice model/intervention consistent with patient needs and goals to achieve optimal health outcomes.
• Implements interventions in accordance with established treatment guidelines and educates patients and caregivers regarding self-management, health promotion and injury/disability prevention.
• Participates in the interprofessional care planning process for patients as appropriate by ensuring the plan is established and implemented effectively, updating care plan and intervening as appropriate, and collaborating and communicating on issues that will affect the care/transfer/discharge plan.
• Evaluates and documents the effectiveness of interventions by methods such as conducting ongoing assessment and monitoring of patient responses, evaluating changes in health status, function and physical performance against pre-determined goals and expected outcomes, and modifying the intervention strategy to achieve and maintain optimal functional independence and physical performance.
• Participates in maintaining seamless quality patient care by identifying appropriate referrals for physiotherapy services, screening for priority of intervention, and identifying and facilitating referrals to appropriate health care/community programs.
• Collaborates with patients and their families/care givers in developing the care plan and encourages family participation in the development, implementation and ongoing modification of the care plan. Establishes a therapeutic relationship by demonstrating empathy, trust and respect, advocating for the patient's rights to privacy, dignity and access to information, and by ensuring the patient's choice and autonomy in decision making and care planning.
• Maintains a variety of records including patient files by gathering information, entering data into computerized databases and/or documenting information into approved formats. Notes patient progress, changes to treatment plan, and records test/treatment results to provide evidence and rationale that support assessment findings and intervention plan. Compiles statistics on workload activities and summarizes information into written reports as requested.
• Delegates components of treatment to rehabilitation assistants by providing work direction and verbal and/or written instruction, ensuring and documenting the appropriate transfer of function and ensuring quality patient care.
• Acts as a physiotherapy resource to other physiotherapists, rehabilitation assistants, and students by assisting with orientation and demonstrating procedures. Provides physiotherapy information and inservices to other members of the health care team and attends meetings as a representative of physiotherapy.
• Participates in team/program activities required to enhance and optimize the delivery of care and to facilitate evidence-based practice. Promotes quality and safety principles, identifies processes/procedures that require improvement and provides recommendations for review.
• Participates in approved physical therapy and interprofessional research, special projects, and committees including professional practice councils and clinical decision support tool development.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Current full registration with the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC.

Skills And Abilities

• Knowledge of physiotherapy theory and practice within a patient and family-centered model of care.
• Knowledge of the College of Health and Care Professionals of British Columbia standards of practice and practice guidelines for clinical practitioners.
• Knowledge of physiotherapy standardized tests, measures, use of equipment and related techniques.
• Broad knowledge of other health care professions and their role in patient care.
• Ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with patients, caregivers, rehabilitation assistants, members of the interprofessional care team, both verbally (one-on-one and in groups) and in writing.
• Ability to teach and provide effective consultation to patients, caregivers, rehabilitation assistants and other health care professionals.
• Ability to work independently and in collaboration with others.
• Ability to establish workload priorities and adjust to unexpected events.
• Basic knowledge of research process and methodology.
• Ability to operate related equipment including relevant software applications.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
  
  

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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