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Title: Occupational Therapist I

Company: Alberta Health Services
Location: Strathmore, AB
Job Type: FullTime, Shift

Description:

As an Occupational Therapist (OT), you will provide evidence-informed 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 self-care, 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, self-management, 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Transition Company: Assisted Living Alberta

Classification: Occupational Therapist I

Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH

Unit and Program: 04 HC Rural East

Primary Location: Strathmore

Location Details: As Per Location

Multi-Site: Multisite

FTE: 1.00

Posting End Date: 31-AUG-2026

Employee Class: Regular Full Time

Date Available: 10-SEP-2026

Hours per Shift: 7.75

Length of Shift in weeks: 12

Shifts per cycle: 60

Shift Pattern: Days

Days Off: As Per Rotation

Minimum Salary: $42.51

Maximum Salary: $56.60

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:

Three years of recent home care or acute care experience in the last five years. Must be proficient in computer use as role is heavily dependent on computer use. Knowledge, skill, ability and willingness to work to full scope of practice. Ability to use critical thinking skills. Critical inquiry to assess, plan & evaluate.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with acute clients and/or long-term clients with a focus on chronic disease management. Experience in providing case management and interventionist services. AADL Authorizer.

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Title: Occupational Therapist I
Company: Alberta Health Services
Location: Strathmore, AB
 Your Opportunity:

Integrated Home Care uses a strengthsbased Client Centered Case Management practice framework. Using a personcentered approach you will develop a care plan supporting the client/family to identify needs, focus on strengths, set achievable personal health and selfcare goals and provide direct OT interventions. In collaboration with the client/family you will ensure services are provided and modified on an ongoing basis, based on client's response to interventions, incorporating stewardship into service authorization. Reporting to the designated Care Manager within Home Care, the OT Case ManagerInterventionist works as a member of an interprofessional health care team; within the full scope of their professional practice and is responsible for assessing, planning, organizing, reviewing and evaluating the care needs of Short term acute, Acute, Wellness and Rehabilitation clients and their caregivers/families requiring community based services; fosters and promotes continuity of care and cooperative partnerships by liaising with primary care physicians, residential care facilities, acute care hospitals, and other programs/organizations involved in the provision of services. There is an expectation to be a mobile worker as this role requires travel within the Chestermere and Airdrie Geographical Areas. You will be responsible to operate a laptop computer and mobile phone, and manual handling (lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing and pulling) is a regular part of the job. For example: lifting of approximately 30 pounds in and out of a vehicle on a regular basis and carrying this weight up and down stairs throughout the day is common within this job.

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:04 HC Rural East
 Primary Location:Strathmore
 Location Details:As Per Location
 MultiSite:Multisite
 FTE: 1.00
 Posting End Date:31AUG2026
 Employee Class:Regular Full Time
 Date Available:10SEP2026
 Hours per Shift:7.75
 Length of Shift in weeks:12
 Shifts per cycle:60
 Shift Pattern:Days
 Days Off:As Per Rotation
 Minimum Salary: $42.51
 Maximum Salary: $56.60
 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:

Three years of recent home care or acute care experience in the last five years. Must be proficient in computer use as role is heavily dependent on computer use. Knowledge, skill, ability and willingness to work to full scope of practice. Ability to use critical thinking skills. Critical inquiry to assess, plan &amp; evaluate.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working with acute clients and/or longterm clients with a focus on chronic disease management. Experience in providing case management and interventionist services. AADL Authorizer.

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