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Posted on April 7, 2024
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From 2024-04-07
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Req ID: 147619
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Eastern Zone, St. Martha's Regional Hospital
Department: MHA EZ Community Mental Health
Type of Employment: Temporary
Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: CUPE Healthcare
Position Posting Closing Date: 9-Apr-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 centres 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.
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About The Opportunity
Reporting to the Manager of Adult Outpatient Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Occupational Therapist works as a member of the multi-disciplinary team and will provide occupational therapy services in an outpatient and community based setting to adults with mental health/addiction disorders who fit within the established target population. Services may include utilizing functional assessments to implement and evaluate client care strategies, assist the client and/or family in establishing a plan of care utilizing evidence based and recovery-based models in an outpatient/community setting, the provision of group treatment approaches and client, family and community education about mental health/concurrent disorders and their treatments.
The Occupational Therapist (OT) is one of the collaborators in the Collaborative Care Model, participating in the provision of holistic, comprehensive care to meet the needs of patients/clients. As a member of the team, the OT participates in the overall plan of care with the patient/client by providing occupational therapy services.
About You
Hours
Temporary Full Time Position; 75 hours bi-weekly
Approximately 14 months
Dates are approximate and subject to change
Compensation and Incentives
$33.30 - $42.05 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. (Permanent Long Assignments Only)
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.
As per the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Protocol in High-Risk Settings, Nova Scotia Health requires all team members to be fully vaccinated by November 30th, 2021.
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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