Description:
Occupational Therapist
Responsibilities
- Conducting driving assessments (in-clinic and on-road)
- Provide vehicle access assessments for drivers and passengers to enable them to enter / exit a vehicle and stow their mobility devices
- Formulating goals, recommendations and providing client resources
- Planning and supervising client-centered, goal-directed driver rehab programs through driver rehab driving instructors.
- Accepting auto insurance referrals and completion of OCF18s
- Completion of detailed assessment reports, OCF18s and vehicle prescription reports.
Why join our team?
- Competitive Total Rewards. So much more than a paycheque! Enjoy comprehensive benefits, pension, on-demand pay, car loan support, supportive housing and exclusive staff perks (including OSOT member subsidizes).
- Growth That Meets Your Ambition Build your skills with education bursaries, tuition support, ongoing training and mentorship. Our leadership team is available 24/7 to help you practice to full scope and deliver excellent care. With diverse roles and locations across Canada, you’ll have opportunities to explore new career paths or move into support and leadership positions.
- Innovative. At SE, we are always looking for new, innovative ways to improve. You’ll be encouraged and supported to identify and make improvements to the way we do our work. As a social enterprise, we support research into Senior’s Health and Aging.
- Purpose & Impact Join a national social enterprise where your voice matters. Every role helps advance health, spark innovation and strengthen communities across Canada.
- Manage your life. At SE, you’ll be supported with the time you need to meet the needs of your clients and meet your own needs, develop yourself and your career, and be part of a team.
- Support to be your best. At SE you are afforded the time you need to help patients, to build rapport, to accomplish patient care and recovery goals, and to understand the home and life environments that impact recovery in a way you can’t in most other settings. At SE, you meet your patients where they are, and together you take them to new heights!
- Ability to adapt to new computer applications
Requirements
- A member in good standings of the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario
- Recent experience in managing patients in acute/rehab or community-based rehabilitation programs is preferred
- Reliable, flexible, creative, self-directed professional, able to work effectively and collaboratively with rehab assistants as well as with a high-performance interdisciplinary rehabilitation team
- Demonstrates a mature, confident, compassionate and professional presence, bringing composure, sound judgement, and genuine care for the people they serve to all clients interactions.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong organizational skill required to manage the demands of a varied caseload including services delivered by driver rehab instructors and OTA’s
- A positive work and attendance record is essential
- Ability to adapt to new computer applications