Occupational Therapist, Chronic Pain Hope to Health Clinic P1

What We Offer

1. Develops, plans and implements occupational therapy assessments for patients with complex psychosocial and/or chronic pain conditions in a coordinated approach and in accordance with established standards of practice and program standards by methods such as identifying patient issues/needs, planning, implementing, evaluating, and documenting clinical services. Collaborates with other members of the interdisciplinary team, the patient and family and relevant outside parties in the creation of an appropriate ongoing care plan.2. Develops education programs and learning resources for patients and their families based on best practices regarding the management of the functional effects of living with chronic pain by methods such as researching and reviewing professional literature, consulting with other professionals and reviewing and modifying education programs.3. Assists the health care team by demonstrating and instructing on procedures and processes. Provides in-services on topics related to chronic pain, occupational therapy or other relevant to the patient population.4. Collaborates with other members of the inter-professional team to develop and plan evidence based programs, services and resources required by patients with chronic pain. Provides input in meetings including professional practice meetings: provides knowledge, input and recommendations to the team with the goal of enhancing patient care, service delivery, and clinical outcomes in chronic pain management.5. Participates in continuous quality improvement activities by methods such as evaluating clinical activities and services, selecting and utilizing outcome measures to identify and troubleshoot inconsistencies, evaluate effectiveness of changes in patient care practice, attending and contributing to interdisciplinary meetings and providing advice as required.6. Establishes and builds positive and effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders such as members of the Primary Care Team, other health care professionals, the patient, family members, lawyers, insurance companies, employers and private community therapists. 7. Provides clinical supervision to and evaluation of occupational therapy students as required. Provides explanation/information on the role of occupational therapy to medical, pharmacy, nursing, psychology and physiotherapy students. 8. Maintains and updates own clinical and professional knowledge of current developments in occupational therapy by methods such as reviewing professional literature, consulting with other professionals, actively participating in ongoing relevant education programs and chronic pain special interest groups. Establishes own measurable goals and objectives, and reviews progress to ensure that goals are achieved within established timeframes with the Professional Practice Leader, Occupational Therapy. 9. Participates and collaborates on research projects, identifies implications of research findings and imbeds new developments into the program, procedures and processes used for the patient population with chronic pain. Provides updates and/or in-services to members of the interdisciplinary team on most current information relating to occupational therapy and pain management, trends and evidence best practices, and updates educational material and/or policies to reflect changes.10. Maintains administrative reporting such as completion of workload measurement information, records and statistics as required.11. Maintains patient records by methods such as documenting patient assessments, charting patient progress notes, composing letters and reports (including medical-legal reports) in accordance with established standards, and policies and procedures to meet regulatory requirements and documenting for future reference.12. Performs other related duties as required.

Nurse Case Manager - Registered Nurse (RN) / Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN) - Home Health