Occupational Therapist - Slaight Centre Early Intervention Service

The Child Youth and Emerging Adult Program (CYEAP) is currently seeking a full-time, temporary (6 months) Occupational Therapist to work in its Slaight Centre Early Intervention Service (SCEIS). The SCEIS provides clinic and community-based assessment and treatment for young people, 14-35 years of age who are experiencing a primary psychotic disorder, often their first episode of psychosis. Reporting to the Manager of SCEIS, you will be expected to contribute to program development, continuous quality improvement initiatives, and to the research and educational activities of the service.

• Your primary role will include, but is not limited to, supporting education and employment interventions, psychoeducation, and recovery- oriented and therapeutic programming to patients.
• In this position, you will function as an Occupational Therapist within an interprofessional practice team.
• You will be expected to assess, plan, implement and evaluate clinical care utilizing the Slaight Centre Integrated Care Pathway that is designed to deliver standardized, evidence--based treatments including the delivery of the NAVIGATE early intervention model of care.
• This position is specifically focused on the Supported Education and Employment (SEE) component of NAVIGATE.
• Another aspect of this position, within the Supported Education and Employment component may include job development.
• As a result, the candidate will liaise with other services across CAMH and with external community agencies, creating partnerships to support job development and ultimately the rapid job placement portion of SEE; the candidate may be involved in system level advocacy regarding aspects of job development.
• You will have sound knowledge of early intervention in psychosis, psychosocial rehabilitation, crisis intervention, addiction issues, recovery principles, groups, severe and persistent mental illness, especially schizophrenia spectrum disorders and primary mood disorders with psychosis.
• Your strengths will include an ability to engage patients and their support network in care planning and treatment decisions on an ongoing basis.
• Candidates must be capable of providing supervision of Masters of Occupational Therapy students.
• You will support a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork and complies with all applicable and regulatory requirements.
• This position may require flexibility in work hours, possibly with some evening and weekend hours.
• This position is located at 1025 Queen Street West.
• This position may require some traveling in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

• You must be registered and in good standing with the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario (COTO).
• You must possess a Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy (or a Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy plus a Master’s degree in OT, Rehab Sciences or a related field), combined with a preferred three (3) years of experience working with individuals who have a serious mental illness.
• You must also have membership in either the Ontario Society of Occupational Therapy and/or Canadian Association of Occupational Therapy and be a holder of COTO’s pre-requisite Professional Liability Insurance.
• You also must be eligible for adjunct/status-only appointments with university faculties associated with Occupational Therapy that has affiliation agreements with CAMH.
• You must possess a strong knowledge of, and ability to apply principles of crisis intervention; experience in a mental health/addiction setting; knowledge of recovery; understanding of concurrent disorders and its impact on this population; experience in completing functional/vocational assessments; and facilitating groups as appropriate for the first episode…