Position: Recreation Therapist
Department: 3C Seniors, 3D Palliative Care and Seniors Falls
Posting ID: 7899
Role Level: Allied Health (AH08) - $37.84 to $43.57
Status: Full Time (3C Seniors,3D Palliative Care and Seniors Falls)
Site: Mississauga Hospital
Hours of Work/Shifts: Days (8 Hour Shifts) may include weekends
Posted: July 6, 2026
Internal Deadline: July 13, 2026
Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based teaching hospitals, serving the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto, and surrounding communities through the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, the Reactivation care Centre (Church Site) and the new THP-UHN Reactivation Care Centre. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, and courage, and through our strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030 , we are creating a new kind of health care - defined not by illness, but by the health and well-being of people and communities.
Job Description:
We are recruiting for a highly skilled, creative and energetic Recreation Therapist with advanced critical thinking and inter-professional skills. This role is a shared role between seniors services and the palliative care, within the integrate and primary care portfolio. This role requires a highly adaptable and flexible person, who will be working across THP and community centres.
As a member of the inter-professional team, you will have the opportunity to provide senior friendly care to our older adult patients as well as provide patient- and family-centred care focused on optimizing quality of life. Care delivery emphasizes on support for patients and families navigating complex and sensitive stages of illness. This role offers the opportunity to practice with empathy, clinical excellence, and professionalism while also supporting patients and families through end-of-life care and decision-making.
Reporting to the Clinical Manager, Seniors’ Services, the successful candidate will: assess, treat and provide education to patients within the Seniors’ Services Program including a inpatient acute care for the elderly unit, outpatient seniors falls prevention program and inpatient acute care palliative care unit. Active collaboration with the inter-professional team is an integral component of this position.
Key Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Arts Degree in Therapeutic Recreation from a recognised University or health-related undergraduate degree and post-graduate certificate in Therapeutic recreation or equivalent
- Current BCLS is recommended
- Current Gentle Persuasive Approaches certification recommended
- Membership in Therapeutic Recreation Ontario
- Experience in providing therapeutic recreation programs for adults and older adults
- Experience in providing therapeutic recreation programs for adults at end of life
- Demonstrated leadership skills and evidence of continuing education required
- Experience in program development and working with medically complex patients including Delirium, Dementia and Depression
- Experience working in a community program/service is an asset
- Knowledge of relevant adaptive leisure equipment for people with disabilities
- Reliable, flexible, creative, self-directed professional, able to work effectively and collaboratively within a high performance inter-professional team
Satisfactory performance and attendance
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Key Responsibilities:
- Complete comprehensive assessments on patients and set therapeutic goals with the patients and family and to provide assessment of the patient's physical, cognitive, affective, social, and spiritual needs and strengths, along with leisure interests, as well as treatment to promote better performance in functional activities, maximize potential and optimize function for maximal independence
- Provide education and make recommendations to appropriate community programs/services in conjunction with patients and their families, to set an effective discharge plan.
- Obtain and document informed consent for assessment and treatment by the Recreation Therapist
- Communicate patient assessment findings, treatment program, and progress with other health care professionals involved in the patient’s care and share responsibility for development and implementation of interprofessional care were indicated
- Participate in weekly interprofessional progress rounds, monthly professional practice meetings, business meetings and program meetings
- Participate in the co-ordination of patient treatment and communicate with other community health care professionals within the “circle of care “Assist and participate in developing, implementing and practicing quality improvement within the program/unit
- Liaises with external care providers to ensure care needs are met and safety is maintained
- Document relevant assessment data, keep current and timely progress and discharge notes for all referred patients while following the professional standards
- Participate in education, supervision and orientation of Recreational Therapy students/volunteers and new IP members to the team
- Document required workload measurements data in a timely and accurate manner
To pursue this career opportunity, please visit our website: www.trilliumhealthpartners.ca
Internal Candidates who believe they possess the necessary qualifications and experience for this position and who have been in their current position for at least six (6) months are encouraged to apply.
Trillium Health Partners’ (THP) is an equal opportunity employer who values the importance of antiracism work and is committed to integrating antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion best practices throughout THP operations, policies and culture. Therefore, we ask that even if you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage all applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code based on race, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nations, Métis or Inuk/Inuit person to consider this opportunity.
In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.
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