Physiotherapist (casual), Transitional Health

If you take pride in being compassionate, honest, professional, and safe, consider a rewarding career as a casual Physiotherapist with our new West Bedford Transitional Health team, where you will help redefine how patients transition from hospital to home.

This innovative facility integrates data and technology into patient assessment, care delivery, and communication, while providing specialized, person-centred support for individuals who no longer require hospital-level treatment but need additional care to safely return home or transition back into their community. Our team is committed to dignity, safety, and clinical excellence in every interaction.

Through an innovative partnership with Nova Scotia Health (NSH), Shannex proudly operates the province’s first transitional health facility in West Bedford. This facility provides specialized care for NSH patients in the central zone who no longer require hospital care but need additional support and services before safely returning home or to their community.

Meaningful Benefits

You will be surrounded by supportive and talented team members dedicated to helping patients successfully transition from hospital care back to their homes and communities. As an established and respected organization in the healthcare sector, Shannex offers opportunities for growth, development, and advancement in an environment where integrity, teamwork, and safety are at the heart of everything we do. At the end of every day, you will know you’ve made a meaningful difference in the lives of our patients and their families.

Additional Benefits Include:

• Free onsite parking

• Access to continuing education and training through Shannex’s Centre of Excellence

• Opportunities to be part of sector innovation and continuous improvement initiatives

• Recognition and Rewards for service excellence and safety

About Opportunity

• Assesses, diagnoses, and treats patients in a tertiary care setting who present with actual or potential impairment, pain, functional limitations or disabilities. Physiotherapy assessment involves obtaining a detailed medical history, performing specific and standardized tests and evaluation procedures to determine a physical diagnosis

• Plans intervention strategies by promoting active involvement of the patient, family, or caregiver in establishing physiotherapy goals which are based on assessment findings, prognosis, and evidence-based practice. Selected interventions are implemented to achieve and maintain optimal health fitness and function, encourage self-management, manager identified impairments and disabilities and relieve or manager pain

• Develops individualized treatment plans based on clinical records, observation, or referral; confers with interdisciplinary staff regarding an overall treatment plan for patients.

• Maintains an inventory of physiotherapy equipment and supplies

• Participates in continuing education to maintain credentials and increase expertise and knowledge

• Manages the professional development of the team

• Creates and/or contributes to the health record by documenting a patient’s history, assessment finding, diagnosis, treatment plan, outcome measures, goals, modifications, progressions and responses to treatment, and discharge summary

• Instructs Patients in the care and use of wheelchairs, braces, canes, and prosthetic devices.

• Communicates appropriately and effectively, through verbal, nonverbal, written, and electronic means, with the patients, Substitute Decision Makers, OT, PT, other members of the Wellness Team and interdisciplinary team

About You

In addition to placing high value on continuous improvement, collaboration and accountability, you bring:

• Master of Science in Physiotherapy

• Current registration with the provincial College of Physiotherapists

• Minimum of one year clinical experience; previous experience in rehabilitation and geriatrics preferred

• Previous experience in rehabilitation and geriatrics considered an asset

• Knowledge of the principles, methods, techniques, materials, equipment, and procedures used in physiotherapy and their application in specific cases

• Knowledge of skeletal, muscular and neural anatomy and physiology as it applies to physiotherapy

• Knowledge of the potential hazards involved in physiotherapy treatments and precautionary measures to be taken

• Ability to plan and organize development of treatment goals and objectives

• Ability to accurately observe and assess progress of patients being treated

• Ability to instruct staff in the proper application of routine physiotherapy treatments.

• Previous experience working in long-term care, acute care and/or a comparable environment considered an asset

• A passion for the healthcare sector and/or ensuring seniors have access to quality accommodations, services and care

• Successful candidates will be required to obtain a clear Criminal Record Check, and where applicable, a Vulnerable Sector Check, prior to appointment