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Love where you live…
… because lifestyle matters.
We invite you to consider a personal and professional adventure and to discover the benefits of front-line health care practice in an extraordinary setting. We offer a progressive and consultative work culture as well as leading relocation assistance and foster a top-down commitment to holistic community care.
Come and advance your professional skills and discover a whole new exciting world amidst some of the most beautiful landscape imaginable in Northern British Columbia.
Physiotherapy Opportunities in Northern Health
Physiotherapy is the primary health care profession that promotes wellness, mobility and independent function. Physiotherapists have advanced understanding of how the body moves, what keeps it from moving well and how to restore mobility (Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA, 2007).
Physiotherapists manage and prevent many physical problems caused by illness, disability and disease, sport and work-related injuries, aging, and long periods of inactivity (CPA, 2007).
Physiotherapists are skilled in the assessment and hands-on management of a broad range of conditions that affect the musculoskeletal, circulatory, respiratory, and nervous systems, including but not limited to:
- Maximize mobility for clients with neurological disorders such as stroke,
- spinal cord injury or Parkinson’s disease
- Oversee rehabilitation in the home after injury or illness
- Preparation and Recovery before and after Surgery
- Treat and manage respiratory and cardiac conditions (CPA, 2007)
- Palliative Care
Physiotherapists in NH work in the following settings:
Home & Community Care
- Adults and elderly
- Work in clients’ home and residential complex care facilities
- Work with a variety of diagnoses/disorders such as neurological, orthopedic and musculoskeletal
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across the continuum care
- Patient centered care is the cornerstone of service delivery
Acute
- Adults, elderly and pediatrics (in some locations)
- Essential member of the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team
- Work with a variety of diagnoses/disorders such as neurological, orthopedic and musculoskeletal
Where else . . .
> can you embrace your practice and forget your commute?
> is housing so affordable and the landscape so diverse?
> do you have to divide your time between the lakes, rivers, wildlife, and mountains?
. . . Northern BC!
To find out how you can bring The Northern Way of Caring into your life, check out our website at www.northernhealth.ca/careers
Or contact us at:
Tel: 1.877.905.1155
e-mail: hr@northernhealth.ca
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