Occupational Therapist - Veterans Centre - Regular Part-Time 2025-13599
Occupational Therapist - Veterans Centre - Regular Part-Time 2025-13599
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Job Description
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has an opportunity for an Occupational Therapist in the Veterans Program to promote resident quality of life and enable engagement in occupations of everyday living to veteran residents facilitate discharge planning of patients awaiting community transitions and optimize comfort for patients receiving palliative care. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with residents patients families and interprofessional team members to provide evidence-based best practice.
Responsibilities include:
- Conduct occupational performance assessments of residents and patients
- Provide expertise in cognitive and behavioural assessments
- Assess and determine interprofessional implementation plan to address any responsive behaviors
- Plan implement and monitor interventions focusing on: wheelchair prescription and seating daily functioning (ADLs and IADLs) cognition perception and pressure relieving devices or skin and wound care/aids/devices and other care/aids/devices to optimize functioning
- Maintain and/or progressing functioning for the purpose of transitioning patients to community settings
- Monitor intervention plans and assign components of occupational therapy service to OTA-PTAs for implementation according to COTO Standards for Supervision of Occupational Therapist Assistants
- Collaborate with interprofessional team to make and support recommendations on disposition planning and equipment and service requirements. Appropriately refer to community services as needed Superior ability to manage multiple tasks and set priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Participate in various program and corporate committees and councils to represent the Veterans Centre and OT profession
- Educate interprofessional team families and students as needed related to resident occupational performance issues
- Maintain and upgrade skills and knowledge through continuing education and professional development and seek opportunities for involvement in practice-based research and knowledge dissemination
- Maintain resident records complete workload measurement and MDS statistics in accordance with facility and COTO standards for practice
- Participate in profession specific and interprofessional activities in support of the Sunnybrook Occupational Therapy Service and the department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto
- Practice in accordance with the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario.
Qualifications / Skills:
- Registration with the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario required
- Membership in CAOT and /or OSOT
- Previous experience working with older adults required
- Palliative Care experience an asset
- ADP authorizer preferred
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Demonstrate effective ability to:
Assess and provide treatment for cognitive behavioral and functional needs
Provide seating assessments and appropriate wheelchair prescriptions
Foster a collaborative working relationship with OTA including providing clinical supervision through appropriate referrals ongoing modification of goals as appropriate and providing ongoing treatment recommendations
Provide timely comprehensive discharge planning including appropriate referrals to community services and programs
Work collaboratively as a member of the interprofessional team including OTA-PTA
Manage multiple priorities in the context of a large complex caseload
Creatively problem-solve
Provide Person-Centered Care
Employment Type
Part-Time
