Occupational Therapist - SODR

• Partner with inpatient clients and families to formulate and implement individualized client-centered goals with focused, targeted and measurable outcomes. This includes support and respect of the client/family’s rights to make decisions based on their own values, beliefs, and experiences without judgement.
• Provide client care in collaboration with the client/family to plan, implement and evaluate care, documenting the habilitative/rehabilitative process according to hospital policies.
• Interface and problem solve with members of the interprofessional care team and community providers as appropriate to ensure an integrated approach to care.
• Incorporate evaluative activities into professional practice to ensure the delivery of efficient and effective health care.
• Demonstrate strong critical thinking/reasoning and utilize research to establish and support evidence-informed practice.
• Utilize the teaching/learning process to provide education on various conditions, both formal and informal, to clients/families, colleagues, students, and other professionals within the organization and the community.
• Provide direct service, consultation, and education to clients, families, and community providers with focus on maximizing the client’s function in the areas of self-care, productivity (school and play skills) and leisure (community or sports participation).
• Address challenges identified in client occupational performance. Provide assessment and intervention directed at the person, occupation and environmental factors influencing occupational performance.
• Provide assessment and intervention directed at the person, occupation and environmental factors influencing occupational performance such as activities of daily leaving; splinting devices; transfer and lift devices; wheelchairs and seating, etc.
• Practice according to organizational policies and standards of practice as set out by the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario and the policies, procedures and standards of care of Holland Bloorview.
• Contribute to the hospital’s academic mission through student supervision and / or academic teaching and / or contribution to research
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives such as quality boards, supports the maintenance of a safe and healthy work environment and advances a culture of client/patient safety through work and daily practices.
• Documents workload statistics according to the Ministry of Health

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy required; Master's degree in Occupational Therapy preferred
• Current registration with the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario (required)
• Membership in the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists and/or the Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists is an asset
• Knowledge of and experience in occupational therapy assessment and treatment of children and youth with a variety of conditions such as cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, selective dorsal rhizotomy, and other musculoskeletal, developmental and/or neuromotor conditions is preferred
• Knowledge of and experience with occupational therapy assessment techniques, therapeutic skills, modalities and their applications
• Knowledge and experience with a wide variety of lifts and transfers from wheelchairs, beds, bathtubs, toilets, etc. required
• Experience with current outcome measures (i.e. Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, Goal Attainment Scaling, manual muscle testing, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to manage fluctuating clinical responsibilities effectively and efficiently
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and in a solution focused manner with inpatient clients, families and members of the interprofessional care team
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively as a member of an inpatient interprofessional team is essential
• Demonstrated commitment to continued professional development
• Experience with being a positive change agent and quality improvement initiatives is an asset
• Status appointment in the Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy at University of Toronto is an asset

Holland Bloorview