Your Opportunity:
The High River General Hospital Auxiliary Term Care Centre (LTC) is home to 50 Elderly Residents. Nestled 66.5 kms south of Calgary in the beautiful community of High River, Alberta. The vibrant High River Hospital offers an excellent rural care giver opportunity in a unique and diverse Alberta health services care facility. The Recreation Therapy Assistant (RecTA) in LTC works in a Resident Family Centered Care environment that focuses on meeting the comprehensive and complex recreation needs of the Residents and their families in a home like setting. The RecTA will work diligently to enhance the Residents daily activities by providing compassionate Resident centered care within the Recreation Therapy Department.
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 LC
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Long Term Care
- Primary Location: High River
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.60
- Posting End Date: 31-JAN-2024
- Employee Class: Regular Part Time
- Date Available: 10-FEB-2024
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 4
- Shifts per cycle: 12
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- 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:Effective communication techniques and ability to establish rapport and effective and supportive relationships with residents, family and staff.
Preferred Qualifications:Therapeutic Recreation specific education. Experience within the last three years in a long-term care department. Experience within the last three years working as a recreation Therapy Assistant Class 4 driver's license for residents outings. Experience in the management of Dementia Syndrome.