Staff Therapist - Occupational Therapist - Repost

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (WRHA); Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 46,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg is seeking an Occupational Therapist to collaborate with clients through assessment, intervention, and service planning to meet occupational performance goals.

This role emphasizes promoting healthy lifestyles, preventing illness, and advancing quality patient care. The incumbent will contribute to ongoing professional development, evidence-based practice, and teamwork across disciplines in a maternity leave term position.

Qualifications

• Entry-to-practice OT credential from an accredited Canadian university program.
• Registration with the College of Occupational Therapists of Manitoba (COTM) to practice.
• Continuing professional education in designated clinical area preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with clients through assessment, interventions, follow-up and planning of services to meet occupational goals.
• Supports healthy lifestyles, prevents illness and disability, and promotes health.
• Maintains quality client care through ongoing professional development and evidence-based practice.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Written & verbal communication

Team collaboration

Clinical reasoning

Evidence‑based practice

Computer literacy

Education

OT degree from accredited Canadian university

CPR certification

MSOT/CAOT membership preferred

Job description

Requisition ID: 402796

Position Number: 20068622

Posting End Date: September 17, 2026

City: Winnipeg

Employer: St. Boniface Hospital

Site: St. Boniface Hospital

Department / Unit: Occupational Therapy - SBH

Job Stream: Clinical

Union: MAHCP

Anticipated Start - End Date: ASAP - October 18, 2027

Reason for Term: Maternity Leave

FTE: 0.70

Anticipated Shift: Days

Work Arrangement: In Person

Daily Hours Worked: 7.50

Annual Base Hours: 1950

Salary: $46.459, $47.850, $49.289, $50.767, $52.287, $53.853

Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region! Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites, services and organizations. We’re united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.

Position Overview

The Occupational Therapist collaborates with clients through assessment, interventions, follow-up, planning and designing of services to meet occupational performance goals, support healthy lifestyles, prevent illness and disability and promote health. Quality client care is supported through continuing professional development, research, quality improvement and promotion of occupational therapy.

Experience

• Recent and relevant clinical experience preferred.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

• Entry-to-practice academic credential in Occupational Therapy from an accredited Canadian university program or the approved equivalent if internationally educated as determined by the College of Occupational Therapists of Manitoba (COTM).
• Successful completion of relevant continuing professional education in designated clinical area preferred.

Certification/Licensure/Registration

• Registration is required with the College of Occupational Therapists of Manitoba (COTM) with the incumbent’s name entered in the practicing register or in the provisional register as an examination candidate. Where the incumbent is provisionally registered as an examination candidate, to maintain employment, he/she must pass the examination required by COTM during the next available exam offering to maintain employment with the Centre.
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training requirements for this position shall be in accordance with the Employer policy.
• Membership in the Manitoba Society of Occupational Therapists (MSOT) and the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT) preferred.

Qualifications And Skills

• Ability to establish and maintain good interpersonal relationships.
• Must have effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively with other disciplines.
• Demonstrated professional judgment and initiative.
• Demonstrated effective organizational, interpersonal, critical-thinking, clinical reasoning, conflict resolution and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice.
• Ability to perform both independently and as a team member.
• Knowledge of the physiological, social, cultural and economic aspects of patient care.
• Ability to organize and complete assignments with a minimum of supervision.
• Willingness to adapt to new concepts, techniques and best practice in the academic and clinical fields of healthcare knowledge.
• Computer literacy as appropriate to the setting.

If there are no applicants meeting the qualifications, the employer may consider an applicant who does not meet the above qualifications.

Physical Requirements

Not Applicable

St. Boniface Hospital is committed to empowering a workforce that welcomes and celebrates diversity by fostering culturally safe places for all employees. We strive to celebrate our diverse workforce and the outstanding work we do every day.

This maternity/parental term may expire sooner than the date indicated subject to a minimum of two (2) weeks’ notice.

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.

Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Manitoba healthcare employers, in partnership with the Indigenous community, are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.