Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $45.15 - $56.17 / hour

Job Summary

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Are you passionate about working as a Community Occupational Therapist? We're thrilled to announce that we have a Full Time position available based in New Westminster, BC.

Community – Mental Health Centre, Adult Teams.

This individual will work with adult clients (individually and in groups) referred by their Most Responsible Clinician for support with diverse occupations such as volunteering, education, social activities, community navigation, daily routines, or dating. Clients may have any type of mental health diagnosis. Assess client's IADL support needs and make impactful recommendations to enhance supports.

What We're Looking For:

- Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy
- Current full registration with the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC. Eligible for membership in the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists - British Columbia (CAOT-BC)
- Two years' recent experience in a psychiatric setting

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Detailed Overview

Abiding by Fraser Health Policies and Procedures impacting rehabilitation and recovery services, and as a member of the interdisciplinary team, provides direct and indirect specialized occupational therapy services to clients of their area of practice using recognized occupational therapy tools and techniques.

Services include client assessment, planning, group and individual interventions, and transition planning; consultation with and education for other professionals, contracted agencies and natural supports; and support services for clients and natural supports.





The Occupational Therapist engages with individual clients and support systems as full collaborators in service planning, delivery, and evaluation; develops partnerships with community agencies to encourage client participation; focuses on occupational performance (person-occupation-setting) from a psychosocial rehabilitation (PSR) perspective for Mental Health & Substance Use program clients; provides input into the evaluation of process and outcomes to ensure quality of services; participates in joint planning with team members for overall service delivery to clients, and works collaboratively with MHSU staff, agencies, and community service providers.

This position may be required to work in different settings such as at more than one location within an assigned geographical area, or within a virtual/remote service delivery environment.

Responsibilities

- Screens and assesses client's functional capacity, occupational performance, and environmental supports to make appropriate referrals by reporting client's occupational profile, skills, limitations, support needs, and goals.
- Reviews relevant clinical information and discusses the referral with the team including the client, their most responsible clinician and agencies involved by interviewing the client, significant others and/or natural supports, and other professionals and services to determine the appropriate use of assessment tools.



Conducts home assessments/community visits as required.
- Analyses and reviews assessment results with the client to determine a course of action, and provides verbal and written assessment reports to the case manager and other relevant stakeholders such as housing support staff.
- Assists client and agency to determine the best method of achieving the desired results; supports client orientation to the service, and provides ongoing support and advice to both client and agency. Where necessary, refers clients to other services.
- Provides individual and group treatment with selected clients of the mental health and substance use program by collaborating with inter-professional team members to determine recovery priorities and goals, and providing group leadership/co-leadership to meet psycho-education, skill development, and other needs.
- Identifies appropriate Frame of Reference for intervention/treatment and reviews assessment results;, develops treatment goals with the client and treatment team, identifies resources required for treatment, including tests, materials and equipment, initiates the required funding requests, and provides individual treatments as required to restore, develop, or maintain occupational performance/functional responsibilities.
- Assists in the provision of education regarding rehabilitation and recovery to mental health & substance use program staff. Identifies education needs and/or provides education to service providers, and assists in the development of training workshops to meet their identified needs.
- Applies psychosocial rehabilitation approach with mental health & substance use program clients/consumers to facili

📌 Community Occupational Therapist (New Westminster)
🏢 Fraser Health Authority
📍 New Westminster