If you take pride in being compassionate, honest, professional, and safe, consider a rewarding career as a casual Occupational Therapist with our new West Bedford Transitional Health team, where you will help redefine how patients transition from hospital to home.
This innovative facility integrates data and technology into patient assessment, care delivery, and communication, while providing specialized, person-centred support for individuals who no longer require hospital-level treatment but need additional care to safely return home or transition back into their community. Our team is committed to dignity, safety, and clinical excellence in every interaction.
Reporting to the Allied Health Manager, the Occupational Therapist is integral in supporting the goal of returning to home/community by being engaged in interprofessional collaboration, offering evidence based clinical expertise to inform care plans that fit with patient/family goals, using effective communication strategies, shared decision-making, and mutual support.

Meaningful Benefits
You will be surrounded by supportive and talented team members dedicated to helping patients successfully transition from hospital care back to their homes and communities. As an established and respected organization in the healthcare sector, Shannex offers opportunities for growth, development, and advancement in an environment where integrity, teamwork, and safety are at the heart of everything we do. At the end of every day, you will know you’ve made a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and their families.

Extra benefits Include

Free onsite parking

Access to continuing education and training through Shannex’s Centre of Excellence





Opportunities to be part of sector innovation and continuous improvement initiatives

Recognition and Rewards for service excellence and safety

About The Opportunity

Part of the allied health team, working in collaboration with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Recreation Therapists, Recreation Programmers, Social Workers, Dietitians, nursing team, care team, and Nurse Practitioners, to support patients’ functional goals for discharge

Responsible for prioritizing and managing their own caseload and participates in the patient’s overall plan of care, providing consultation, assessment, intervention, evaluation, and follow-up while working within the site setting, the patient’s home and/or their community

Works in collaboration with the patient, caregivers, family, and interdisciplinary healthcare team to facilitate, restore and/or maintain the patient’s optimal level of function in the areas of self-care, productivity, and leisure, depending on service area

Assesses, administers, and interprets standardized and non-standardized tests and evaluations to assess patients with occupational therapy related concerns such as level of independence in activities of daily living, seating and mobility, swallowing and meal texture, pressure reduction and skin integrity, splinting

Coordinates management of facility equipment; contacts suppliers for service and maintenance of wheelchairs,



Geri chairs and power wheelchairs

Designs and produces adaptive equipment, utensils, splints, or other orthotic devices as needed for use by patients; instructs patients and staff in the proper use of the equipment.

Completes progress observations tests of occupational therapy treatment provided.

Outlines work assignments

Supervises, directs, and evaluates the work of the team

Oversees the full recruitment process for new members of the team

Manages the professional development of the team.

In consultation with Human Resources Department, manages team member issues

Prepares progress reports, funding requests, and statistical reports relating to occupational therapy treatment program and patient needs and maintains treatment records as required

About You
In addition to placing high value on continuous improvement, collaboration and accountability, you bring:

Bachelor/Master of Science in Occupational Therapy

Current registration with the provincial Association of Occupational Therapists

Minimal 1-year clinical experience

Proof of valid CPR & Emergency First Aid Certification required

Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and kinesiology as related to the practice of occupational therapy

Knowledge of the use of adaptive equipment, wheelchairs, utensils, and splints.

Experience using Electronic Health Record system considered an asset

Previous experience working in acute care, and/or a comparable environment considered an asset

Successful candidates will be required to obtain a clear Criminal Record Check, and where applicable, a Vulnerable Sector Check, prior to appointment

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📌 Occupational Therapist (casual), Transitional Health (Nova Scotia)
🏢 Shannex
📍 Nova Scotia