Your Opportunity:

This position primarily supports Speech-Language Pathology services within an adult outpatient rehabilitation setting. Experience providing adult speech, language, and cognitive-communication therapy—including virtual sessions and group-based interventions—is required. The ideal candidate is a Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant (SLPA) with strong clinical and computer skills and a passion for adult neurorehabilitation. The Community Rehabilitation Interdisciplinary Service (CRIS) clinic located at the Mother Rosalie Health Services Building (Misericordia Community Hospital) and also located at the Kaye Edmonton Clinic and Strathcona County Community Hospital is seeking a Therapy Assistant to provide rehabilitation services to community dwelling adults with complex and neurological conditions. This position provides the opportunity to work within an interdisciplinary team including Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, Recreation Therapy, Psychology and Social Work. The successful candidate will be required to provide high quality patient centered care in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team and under the supervision of various therapists. The successful candidate will also be required to maintain adequate clinical records, support learning opportunities for student therapy assistants, and work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to provide safe, effective and appropriate patient care. This position supports CRIS services offered at all three locations (Mother Rosalie, Kaye Edmonton Clinic, Strathcona Community Hospital) with most work completed at the Mother Rosalie Health Services Centre.

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.