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Title: Occupational Therapist I

Company: Alberta Health Services
Location: Red Deer, Alberta
Job Type: FullTime, Shift

Description:

Located in Central Alberta, Red Deer is a vibrant city with a growing economy and abundant job opportunities. As an Occupational Therapist in this community, you will provide Home Care services to clients, collaborating with other providers to promote health and well-being across all age groups. You will work both independently and as part of a team, assessing individual needs, providing interventions, and ensuring optimal client outcomes.

As an Occupational Therapist, you will engage with individuals, groups, and communities to enable meaningful occupations, including self-care, productivity, and leisure. You will support clients in achieving functional abilities and independence, collaborating with stakeholders within the client's physical, cultural, and social environments. You will also participate in quality improvement initiatives and provide mentorship to students and colleagues.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide evidence-informed services focused on occupational performance

Engage with clients to enable meaningful occupations

Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure optimal client outcomes

Participate in quality improvement initiatives

Provide mentorship to students and colleagues

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited university program

Registered with the Alberta College of Occupational Therapists (ACOT)

Registered or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Occupational Therapy

Heart & Stroke: BCLS-HCP certification required

Current AADL Authorizer preferred

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Title: Occupational Therapist I
Company: Alberta Health Services
Location: Red Deer, Alberta
Your Opportunity:  
Red Deer is located in Central Alberta near the midpoint of the CalgaryEdmonton Corridor and is surrounded by Red Deer County. It is Alberta's thirdmostpopulous city  after Calgary and Edmonton with just over 100,000 citizens. The Red Deer area has one of the fastest growing economies in North America and is consistently ranked as a prime location for doing business. This economic growth has created many job opportunities in the region. Red Deer has plenty of education options: public schools, private schools, francophone programs and postsecondary institutions. Red Deer is home to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum as well as the Sunnybrook Farm Museum, Fort Normandeau (located on the banks of the Red Deer River), the Kerry Wood Nature Centre, and the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. As an Occupational Therapist you will provide Home Care services to clients in the community. In this position, you are expected to collaborate and develop effective partnerships with other providers with a focus on prevention, protection, treatment, and health promotion for all ages across the continuum of services. In this role you will be supported by the Allied Health Area Manager, Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead, and Occupational Therapy Professional Practice Lead, with opportunities to connect with professional in surrounding areas. You will also provide clinical direction to Therapy Assistants and may, on occasion, be offered the opportunity to share the responsibility for mentoring Occupational Therapy or Therapy Assistant students. As one of our Occupational Therapists, you will be working both independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team, responsible for assessing individual needs based on abilities, providing therapeutic interventions and followup, as well as program evaluation to ensure optimal client outcomes.  
Description:  
As an Occupational Therapist (OT), you will provide evidenceinformed services, with a focus on occupational performance designed to meet the needs of individuals, groups, or a community. You may act as a direct service provider, consultant, educator, or advocate and function as an integral health care team member. You will engage individuals, groups, and communities to enable meaningful and chosen occupations, including selfcare, productivity and leisure. You will support clients to achieve optimum functional abilities and independence related to their cognitive, affective, spiritual, and physical strengths and limitations. As an OT, you will provide comprehensive services, including triage, screening, consultation, assessment, diagnosis, collaborative goal setting, treatment, prevention, selfmanagement, education, case management, referral, transition support, and collaboration with relevant and chosen stakeholders and supports within the client¿s physical, institutional, cultural, and social environments. You will include clients and families as integral members of the health care team, encouraging their active participation in all aspects of care. You will collaborate with clients and families in determining, implementing, and evaluating rehabilitation. You will participate in a variety of interprofessional teams to build awareness, enrich support and engage in quality improvement by partnering with healthcare providers, patients, families, and other stakeholders to advance services for the clients. You will contribute to quality improvement and their professional community and participate in peer mentoring and supervising students. You may also provide clinical supervision to Therapy Assistants and Therapy Aides.  
 Transition Company:Assisted Living Alberta
 Classification:Occupational Therapist I
 Union:HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
 Unit and Program:Allied Health / OT Home Care
 Primary Location:Red Deer Bremner Ave Comm Hlth
 Location Details:As Per Location
 MultiSite:Not Applicable
 FTE:1.00
 Posting End Date:09FEB2026
 Employee Class:Regular Full Time
 Date Available:19FEB2026
 Hours per Shift:7.75
 Length of Shift in weeks:2
 Shifts per cycle:10
 Shift Pattern:Days
 Days Off:Saturday/Sunday
 Minimum Salary:$41.27
 Maximum Salary:$54.95
 Vehicle Requirement:Driver's License, Vehicle Required

Required Qualifications:  
Completion of bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy from an accredited university program. Registered with the Alberta College of Occupational Therapists (ACOT).

Additional Required Qualifications:  
Must be registered or eligible for registration with the Alberta College of Occupational Therapy. Heart &amp; Stroke: BCLSHCP certification required.

Preferred Qualifications:  
Current AADL Authorizer preferred.

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