The Occupational Therapist Lead assists the Director of Therapy in day to day operations. The OT lead helps create an environment and culture that enables the hospital to fulfill its mission by meeting or exceeding its goals, conveying the hospital mission to all staff, holding staff accountable for performance, motivating staff to improve performance and being responsible for the operation of the department, measurement, assessment and continuous improvement of the department's performance. The OT lead creates an environment and culture that enables the hospital to fulfill its mission by helping staff to improve their clinical skills, and overall performance, through staff development and mentoring. This position will support cultural diversity by ensuring that the delivery of quality, equitable and culturally competent patient-centered care is provided; promoting and maintaining an inclusive work environment and culture that is respectful and accepting of diversity; and ensuring that cultural diversity and sensitivity training is part of new employee orientation on an on-going basis to meet the needs of the patient population served in the hospital.

In this role, you will deliver a combination of direct service and consultation to the team. You will further serve as a liaison between the client, family & School, program director, as well as other allied health professionals including the client's physician, applied behavior analyst, occupational therapist, speech-language pathologist and developmental behavior paediatric for coordinating care. Ability to be flexible in handling cultural sensitivities is a must.

The ABA Therapist is a full-time staff who will work closely with clients. In this role, you need to maintain treatment records, progress reports of clients with ASD in an appropriate, timely and effective manner;

As a therapist at Olivia’s Place you will be responsible for the following: