Therapy Assistant

Your Opportunity:

The Rockyview General Hospital (RGH) is a metropolitan hospital with over 600 inpatient beds, located next to the scenic Glenmore Reservoir in Southwest Calgary. RGH AH department works collaboratively with all clinical teams: Emergency, ICU/CCU, Medical/Surgical Units, Transition Units, Orthopaedics & the Acute Geriatric Units. Our team provides excellent patient and family centred care in a collaborative, innovative and supportive workplace. In addition to strong clinical skills, we are looking for clinicians who are ideal team players. That means showing up with humility & vulnerability ready to take ownership of one’s actions & to learn from others. It means contributing to the healthy growth & development of the Therapy Assistant team (and the Dept), by engaging in difficult conversations & being able to give & receive feedback while maintaining professionalism & working relationships. Our ideal candidate would also be hungry for the work, demonstrating an intrinsic work ethic & a desire to go above & beyond, never settling for the minimum required. Self-motivated, proactive, & dedicated to the team’s success. At RGH, you will be supported to develop your practice in an interdisciplinary and innovative environment. The caseload may include all inpatient care areas including medical, surgical, sub-acute and recreation therapy. You must be a critical thinker with the ability to work autonomously, demonstrate compassion and empathy and have a focus on Patient and Family Centred care. This position may require repetitive lifting and transferring of patients and equipment. Weekend coverage is expected for all positions on the Therapy Assistant team at Rockyview General Hospital.

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.