Physiotherapist - Med/Surg/Cancer Care, Rehabilitation & Supportive Case Services

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Req ID: 175579

Company: Nova Scotia Health

Location: Central Zone, Dickson Building - QEII

Department: OPCZ PRESUMED CONSENT-CCZ

Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly PT long-assignment (70% FTE) x 1 position(s)

Status: NSGEU Healthcare Position

Posting Closing Date: 22-Mar-24

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centers, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About The Opportunity

The Physiotherapist reports to the Program Manager and as a member of a clinical team, the physiotherapist collaborates with colleagues to determine team goals and objectives, participates in the evaluation of team effectiveness, solves problems, and shares responsibilities. The physiotherapist assesses, diagnoses, and treats patients in a tertiary care setting who present with actual or potential impairments, pain, functional limitations, or disabilities. The physiotherapist educates and communicates with other health disciplines, the general public, family members, and caregivers with regard to health promotion, physiotherapy treatment, and pain management. The physiotherapist provides supervision and evaluation of physiotherapy students, and supervision of physiotherapy assistants and aides.

The incumbent may be required to provide services throughout the Rehabilitation and Supportive Care Services portfolio as this position provides services to both inpatient acute care and delivers ambulatory programming with other members of the Multi-Organ Transplant Program to patients living with Advanced Liver disease. Physiotherapists work on weekends in many areas of the hospital.

The successful applicant may be required to provide services throughout the Rehabilitation & Supportive Care portfolio.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Membership with the Nova Scotia College or Physiotherapists (Provincial licensing body)
• Computer skills (statistics input, word processing, Outlook)
• Annual Cardio-pulmonary Resuscitation certification (BCLS)
• Previous experience in inpatient acute care considered an asset
• Experience working with an organ transplant program is preferred
• Annual Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System training and certification (WHMIS)
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills are required
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

Hours: Long Assignment, Part-time (70%) position; 52.5 hours biweekly

Shifts may include evenings, weekends, and holidays

Compensation and Incentives: $33.31 - $42.06 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.

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