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Occupational Therapist

Job Description 

 Occupational Therapist

 

About Us:

 

Do what you love

Love where you live…

… because lifestyle matters.

 

We invite you to consider a personal and professional adventure and to discover the benefits of front-line health care practice in an extraordinary setting. We offer a progressive and consultative work culture as well as leading relocation assistance and foster a top-down commitment to holistic community care.

 

Come and advance your professional skills and discover a whole new exciting world amidst some of the most beautiful landscape imaginable in Northern British Columbia.

 

Job Description: 

 

  • Occupational Therapy is a health profession concerned with promoting health and well-being through occupation.
  • Occupation refers to everything that people do during the course of everyday life.
  • The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people who have experienced a change in function because of illness, injury or disability to participate in the occupations which give meaning and purpose to their lives (Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT, 2004).

 

Occupational therapists are skilled in the assessment, intervention and evaluation of people’s ability to perform daily activities such as self-care, work, study, volunteerism and leisure (CAOT, 2004). This may be demonstrated in the following ways:

 

  • Maximize functional mobility within the home and community
  • Oversee rehabilitation in the home after injury or illness as it relates to daily activities
  • Facilitate return to work
  • Occupational therapists in NH work in the following settings:
  • Outpatient settings, providing services on an outpatient basis

  

Occupational Therapists in NH Work in the following settings:

 

Home & Community Care:

 

 

  • Adults and elderly
  • Work in clients’ home and residential complex care facilities
  • Work with a variety of diagnoses/disorders such as neurological, orthopedic and musculoskeletal

 

Acute:

 
  • Adults, elderly and pediatrics (in some locations)
  • Essential member of the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team
  • Work with a variety of diagnoses/disorders such as neurological, orthopedic and musculoskeletal

 

Mental Health:

 
  • Acute Adult
  • Community Adult
 


Job Requirements 

Occupational Therapist

Job Requirements: 

 

  • You will be a Graduate of a recognized Occupational Therapy program.
  • Licensed to practice under the College of Occupational Therapists of BC. 
  • Eligible for membership in C.A.O.T

 

Where else . . .

> can you embrace your practice and forget your commute?

> is housing so affordable and the landscape so diverse?

> do you have to divide your time between the lakes, rivers, wildlife, and mountains?

 

. . . Northern BC!

  

To find out how you can bring The Northern Way of Caring into your life, check out our websiteat www.northernhealth.ca/careers

  

Or contact us at:

Tel: 1.877.905.1155

e-mail: [Click Here to Email Your CV]

  

 Keywords:healthcare, health, medical, therapist, theraphy,occupational, occupational therapist 

 

 


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