Therapy Assistant
Your Opportunity:
Join our dedicated Allied Health team in Athabasca as a Therapy Assistant in our Adult Day Program, where every day brings new opportunities to make a meaningful difference. In this rewarding role, you’ll support an interprofessional team, contributing to effective rehabilitation and respite services. You’ll engage in continuous learning, quality improvement, and program planning, all while being part of a supportive and collaborative environment. Your compassionate care will touch the lives of adult clients facing physical or memory challenges or chronic illnesses. You’ll coordinate engaging activities tailored to their needs and provide invaluable support and education to their caregivers. By gathering and documenting feedback, you’ll ensure that Nurses and Therapists are well-informed, fostering a holistic approach to care. Building rapport through active listening and genuine interest, you’ll help clients thrive in their community, enhancing their physical, social, and emotional well-being. If you’re passionate about making a positive impact and being part of a dedicated team, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Athabasca offers a rich sense of community, affordable living, and access to beautiful outdoor recreation, making it an ideal place to develop your career. For more information about this vibrant community, please visit: https://rhpap.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/RHPAP_COMMUNITYPROFILE_ATHABASCA_8.5x11_JUNE2024-1.pdf
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.
- Classification: Therapy Assistant
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Adult Day Program
- Primary Location: Athabasca Comm & Mental Health
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.60
- Posting End Date: 20-AUG-2025
- Employee Class: Regular Part Time
- Date Available: 01-SEP-2025
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 6
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $25.11
- Maximum Salary: $31.48
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Completion of diploma from an accredited post-secondary rehabilitation Therapy Assistant program or equivalent training may be considered.
Additional Required Qualifications:Strong communication and collaborative skills Computer skills including MS Office.
Preferred Qualifications:Experience in a care setting e.g., Home Care, Continuing Care, Acute Care WHMIS Certificate Knowledge of electronic charting (Meditech and/or Connect Care experience an asset.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
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We’re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care all across Alberta.
Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.
We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
