Your Opportunity:

Forty-five minutes outside of Grande Prairie lies the rural town of Spirit River. The town offers many advantages of living in a quitter area serving many farming and industry services. At the same time it is only 45 minutes away from Grande Prairie with a variety of outdoor and indoor recreation opportunities and a multitude of dining and shopping opportunities. With the new Grande Prairie Regional Hospital opening, there is a variety of career options and specialization available for the career minded individual. Your Opportunity The Recreation Therapy Assistant assists with the promotion of a comprehensive service for clients developing and implementing evidence based, client-centered practice based on therapeutic recreation standards of practice. This is a energetic program with a high degree of independence. The successful candidate needs to demonstrate a track record of creativity, initiative, being a self starter and self motivated. In addition to a competitive rate of pay, AHS currently has a Remote Retention Allowance in place to an annual maximum of $3,000. This allowance is non-pensionable and is payable on an hourly basis for all hours paid at the basic rate of pay.

Description:

As a Therapy Assistant, you will work both individually and as part of an interprofessional team under the assignment, monitoring and evaluation of an audiologist, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, recreation therapist or speech-language pathologist.



You will contribute to effective and efficient rehabilitation services including direct and indirect client care across the health care continuum (healthy living, getting better, living with illness and disability, end of life care) for all ages as well as non-client service provision. This role will require you to work effectively with internal and external partners, and display professionalism and strong ethics in both client centered care and participation in care teams. You will demonstrate evidence of reflective thinking and lifelong learning that enhances individual and team competency. You will have opportunities to use your interpersonal and clinical skills in contributing to quality improvement, program planning and student supervision.

- Classification: Therapy Assistant
- Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
- Unit and Program: Central Peace Health Complex
- Primary Location: Spirit River Community Health
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 18-AUG-2026
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- Date Available: 28-AUG-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 2
- Shifts per cycle: 10
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $27.44
- Maximum Salary: $34.39
- Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required

Required Qualifications: Completion of diploma from an accredited post-secondary rehabilitation Therapy Assistant program or equivalent training may be considered.

Additional Required Qualifications: As Required.

Preferred Qualifications: As Required.

📌 Therapy Assistant (Canada)
🏢 Alberta Health Services
📍 Canada