IH's audiology staff provides Early Hearing program services including general audiological screening, diagnostic and rehabilitative services; technical services; and supervision of technical staff to clients ranging from newborn to 19 years of age. Health promotion activities include liaison and counselling and educational sessions with clients and families as well as community partners and professionals.

IH Audiologists are expected to exercise sound clinical judgment when serving clients in accordance with the bylaws of the College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of British Columbia. IH's Professional Practice Office, the Allied Health Director, and IH's Senior Executive Team require clinicians to follow additional standards of practice which are supported by rigorous reviews of evidence. These additional standards ensure excellence of service and align with IH's scope of practice.

Audiologist Jobs

To work as a Dietitian at IH, one must have at minimum a Baccalaureate Degree in nutrition and dietetics, successful completion of an accredited hospital based dietetic internship program and are registered with the College of Dietitians of British Columbia with restricted Acts A, B, and/or C.

IH dietitians are members of a multidisciplinary health care team and provide nutrition care and support to patients and groups according to established policies, standards and procedures. They utilize clinical techniques and knowledge through nutrition assessment; care planning and charting; intervention; goal setting and monitoring; counseling and education programs; consultation and communication with the multidisciplinary care teams; and act as a resource to other health professionals and communities within IH.

There are Clinical Dietitian opportunities in both the acute care and community care settings across the IH region.

Together with the other members of the nutrition program, dietitians are responsible for planning, organizing, coordinating, directing, and evaluating programs which help promote nutritional health and reduce the risk of nutrition-related diseases and other food/feeding-related health issues.

Dietitian Jobs

The health protection department at IH is responsible for regulating and monitoring public facilities and the aspects of the environment that have a direct impact on public health. Our environmental health initiatives protect human health by managing potential health risks to the population. Through our community care facilities licensing, we promote and protect the health and safety of children and adults in facilities such as child day care and adult residential care facilities.

Our Environmental Health Careers Include:

Licensing Officers, who are responsible for promoting and protecting the health and safety of children and adults in community care facilities, such as day care and residential care.

Environmental Health Officers, are responsible for carrying out diverse programs of health protection within our communities. Environmental Health officers are qualified in Public Health and registered with the Board of Registration of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors.

Environmental Health Engineers, who use a vast array of different scientific and biology related techniques to test environmental factors for risks or hazards to public health and develop appropriate systems and solutions to prevent harm.

Come and experience dynamic and challenging career in an environment that fosters delivery of consistent and quality evidence-based programs, services to reduce risk and improve health for our diverse populations.

Environmental Health Jobs

IH offers exciting and rewarding opportunities in our Laboratory sites across the Region. The Laboratory departments strive to provide safe, convenient, respectful and accessible laboratory services to our patients. Services across the region range from full clinical diagnostic and anatomic pathology to STAT and on-call service. Our Laboratory professionals use their specialized skills to find answers that help diagnose and guide patient treatment and care.

Laboratory Technologists work in a team based environment and perform a variety of duties within the laboratory such as:

• Routine and/or complex tests utilizing manual procedures and automated instruments
• Greeting patients
• Collecting and/or receiving specimens
• Entering data into the Laboratory Information System (LIS)
• Validating/reporting test results
• Maintaining instruments
• Preparing solutions and control agents

Laboratory Assistants at IH perform a variety of duties within the Laboratory such as:

• Taking blood samples from patients
• Preparing blood and other specimens for analysis
• Performing routine lab tests
• Distributing specimens
• Operating related equipment
• Entering data into the Laboratory Information System (LIS)
• Performing Electrocardiogram (ECG) testing as required
• Performing related clerical duties.

Laboratory Services Jobs

Come and work in one of our many specialized Medical Imaging professions at IH! Careers include:

• General and Cardiac Ultrasound
• Mammography
• Radiography
• Nuclear medicine
• ECG
• Cardio Technology
• MRI
• CT Scanning

The Medical Imaging Departments incorporate state-of-the-art technology and provide a complete range of diagnostic services to patients in tertiary, acute and community hospitals as well as health care centres across the region.

All of our sites are connected through our regional Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS), which is integrated into our single Electronic Health Record providing real-time patient history anywhere within IH. We have clinical advisory groups that are working together to ensure best practices throughout IH.

Medical Imaging Jobs

IH Pharmacy Services are spread across 11 hospital pharmacies in the Southern Interior. These facilities include tertiary, regional and community hospitals, as well as 10 primary care centers, 11 community care centers and a multitude of long term care facilities.

Our team is comprised of Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Assistants and Technicians, Residents, Coordinators, Academic Detailers, Clinical Site Leaders and Managers, Nurses and Administrative Staff.

IH also has its own in-house Pharmacy Practice Residency Program that accommodates six residents each year. The majority of residency rotations and activities take place at Kelowna General Hospital, which is the major tertiary care and university-affiliated teaching hospital in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. IH residents also have an opportunity to complete rotations at other hospitals within IH, enhancing the diversity of their residency experience. Given the breadth of their residency experience, IH residents are well positioned to work as clinical pharmacists in diverse practice settings upon graduation. In fact IH hires the vast majority of our residents after they complete the program!

IH’s residency program has just received the highest possible accreditation of 6 years with the Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board and has been asked to contribute program practices nationally to help improve other programs! For more information on the residency program click here.

The focus for our Pharmacists is on:

• Direct Patient Care (pharmaceutical care to treat priority patients)
• Teaching (UBC undergraduate, residency, medical and paramedical training)
• Administration (development and implementation of decision support tools)
• Research (collaborative, independent, pharmacy practice research)

With an environment conducive to growth and development of strong clinical pharmacy skills and access to many clinical resources, IH is an amazing setting to advance your career and challenge yourself! If you are looking to work at the leading edge of healthcare and advance your pharmacy career, check out the current opportunities IH has to offer!

Pharmacy Jobs

The therapeutic recreation program at IH is integral in supporting quality of life and wellness for clients across the region.

Our goal is to identify barriers to recreation, such as; psychiatric, physical, cultural, developmental, cognitive, neuro-psychological, socio-economic and substance abuse, to develop therapeutic intervention strategies that integrate/reintegrate clients into a community/facility/home.

Our Recreation Therapists share the organization's core values - Quality, Integrity, Respect and Trust. They work within the context of a client and resident centered care model, and in accordance with established standards of professional practice to provide recreation and leisure programs/activities to individuals and groups.

Recreation Therapists collaborate with an interdisciplinary team including occupational and rehabilitation staff, social and recreational agencies and other health care professionals. They work with leadership to develop guidelines and procedures, conduct research and ensure continuous quality improvement initiatives for the department.

Our work sites offer the opportunity to challenge your skills, increase your knowledge and support your contribution to providing the best patient care!

Recreation Therapy Jobs

At IH, we value commitment to safety, best practice and authentic accountable actions. We find new ways to transform and improve the delivery of health care while achieving personal and organizational goals through teamwork, supporting one another and celebrating our successes.

Our worksites offer an environment that will challenge your professional, technical, and practical skills. We are dedicated to effective quality care and patient advocacy and have leadership that is committed to teamwork, engagement, and innovation.

IH's rehabilitation careers include:

• Occupational Therapy
• Orthotics & Prosthetics
• Physiotherapy
• Psychology

Occupational Therapy

Occupational Therapists at IH work alongside the rest of the rehabilitation team to seamlessly promote functional independence and enable our clients to achieve and maintain optimal health outcomes. Our worksites offer you an environment that will challenge your professional, technical, and practical skills. We are dedicated to effective quality care and patient advocacy and have leadership that is committed to teamwork, engagement, and innovation. Come see how a position within Occupational Therapy with IH in acute, community or residential care could be a great fit for you!

Occupational Therapy

Orthotics & Prosthetics

Based out of Kelowna General Hospital, IH’s Orthotic and Prosthetic Department is a full service department integrated within the Rehabilitation Centre. Orthotists are fully supported by technical rehab and administrative support staff while providing in-patient and out-patient services.

These positions offer a unique orthotist experience working in a rehabilitation setting within the hospital.

Orthotist Jobs

Physiotherapy

Physiotherapists at IH enjoy diversity in practice, a collaborative team environment, and the opportunity to make an impact on the health of the community. They work independently and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team providing physiotherapy services including assessment; treatment planning and implementation; program planning; consultation; equipment prescription; and education of clients and/or their caregivers. The whole rehabilitation team works together seamlessly to promote functional independence and enable our clients to achieve and maintain optimal health outcomes.

We employ physiotherapists in acute, community, primary, and residential care to support our clients' needs. Advance your career and become part of a progressive, multi-disciplinary team that consistently focuses on improving direct patient care throughout our organization.

Physiotherapy Jobs

Psychology

Psychology Services at IH are both community and acute-based. Our Clinical Psychologists and Neuropsychologists work in accordance with the College of Psychologists of British Columbia and support a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to service delivery within the continuum of Allied Health Services. Our Psychologists work closely with the entire rehabilitation team (GPs, RNs, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Recreation Therapists, and Social Workers).

We encourage involvement in research, projects, program development in addition to providing opportunity for career development through education.

Psychology Jobs

We offer exciting and rewarding Respiratory Therapy opportunities in the community, acute and critical care settings. Our employees enjoy autonomous and team oriented approaches to respiratory therapy, and our overall goal is to enhance the quality of life from the perspective of the client or family. IH's Respiratory Therapists demonstrate continuous improvement and best practice approaches in respiratory practice while advancing clinical competence.

A community Respiratory Therapist works within the hospital and community to deliver respiratory therapy services and programs related to community Respiratory Therapy and include:

• The promotion of respiratory health
• The assessment, education, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with respiratory dysfunction
• Communicating and demonstrating community and hospital based respiratory care procedures to other health care professionals and students
• The use of respiratory equipment or special procedures

As part of critical care, IH's High Acuity Response Teams (H.A.R.T.) provides comprehensive, regionally coordinated ground transport care for critical care patients. The mobile critical care responders include highly skilled nursing staff and respiratory therapy professionals who perform vital analyses and procedures as needed on-site and in transit. This ground transport teams provide critical care in outlying facilities and transport patients to the best available care as quickly as possible.

Our worksites offer an environment that will challenge your professional, technical, and practical skills. We are dedicated to quality care and patient advocacy and have leadership that is committed to teamwork, engagement, and innovation.

Respiratory Therapist Jobs

IH social workers are responsible for providing and developing social work services to maintain and improve the health and social well-being of identified populations. We offer opportunities in Bachelor’s and Master’s level social work positions in both acute and community care settings.

Our Social Workers provide comprehensive assessment, care planning and treatment coordination for designated clients and their families in line with the regulations set out by the BC College of Social Workers. They provide direct psychosocial care, counseling, group work, system navigation and advocacy, education and linkage to relevant specialized complex care resources while facilitating client self-management.

Our social work teams have a human caring and relationship-centred practice philosophy with the ability to communicate effectively with clients, families, the public, medical staff and members of the interdisciplinary team.

Our worksites offer you an environment that will challenge your professional, technical, and practical skills. We are dedicated to effective quality care and patient advocacy and have leadership that is committed to teamwork, engagement, and innovation.

Social Work Jobs

IH Speech Language Pathology (SLP) services cover both adult and pediatric populations. Our SLP's are expected to exercise sound clinical judgment when serving clients in accordance with the bylaws of the College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of British Columbia.

In the team-based approach to practice, SLPs may work directly with clients and/or with their caregivers for the purpose of promoting optimal communication and swallowing. The overall goal is to develop and implement therapy programs, which provide compensatory strategies or optimum recover of speech and language function for patients who are capable of recovery and improvement of function.

SLPs contribute to the organization and the overall goals of the department/programs' quality assurance initiatives, meetings, research and education.

Speech-Language Pathologist Jobs