Occupational Therapist I

Your Opportunity:

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Occupational Therapist I (OT-I) to join our interdisciplinary team providing psychiatric rehabilitation services to older adults with complex mental health, psychosocial, and co-occurring rehabilitation needs. This dynamic role is primarily based within the outpatient START Psychiatry Day Hospital, with additional coverage responsibilities on the inpatient Older Adult Psychiatry Unit (Unit 3C), offering a unique opportunity to work across care settings supporting continuity of care. The OT-I will play a key role in delivering recovery-oriented services by leading psychoeducational and skills-training groups, administering and interpreting cognitive and functional assessments, and evaluating upper extremity functioning and functional balance. Responsibilities also include developing individualized intervention plans, prescribing adaptive equipment and upper extremity exercise programs, and supporting patients in optimizing their independence and daily functioning. The successful candidate will actively participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and family conferences, contributing to holistic, patient-centered care planning, while ensuring the timely and accurate completion of clinical documentation. This position reports to the Unit Manager and works under the clinical supervision of the Clinical Services Supervisor, within a collaborative and supportive environment committed to excellence in older adult mental health care.

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.