Occupational Therapist - Sexuality & Relationship Health Specialist

Occupational Therapist - Sexuality & Relationship Health Specialist
Halifax, NS Pinwheel:
Full-time Jan 12, 2026

Autism Nova Scotia is a provincial leader in advancing inclusion, understanding, and opportunity for Autistic people and their families and caregivers. We deliver person-directed, neuro-affirming supports across the lifespan through our network of Regional Autism Centres in Halifax and nine communities across the province.

Our work is grounded in First Voice leadership, community partnership, and a strong commitment to establishing equity for rural, racialized, and other underserved communities through programs that promote social and community inclusion, employment support, and family and caregiver support, we work to reduce barriers, strengthen community capacity, and create pathways for Autistic Nova Scotians to learn, work, live, and belong.

Occupational Therapist – Sexuality & Relationship Health Specialist

Programs

Pinwheel Supervisor

Full-Time (1 Year Term)

Bedford

Pinwheel is Autism Nova Scotia’s adult services program, grounded in a relationship-based, neuro-affirming, and participant-led model of support. Pinwheel recognizes autistic adults as experts in their own lives and prioritizes autonomy, dignity, flexibility, and meaningful choice.

Supports are individualized rather than prescriptive and evolve alongside each participant’s goals, capacity, identity, and life circumstances.linepinwheel affirms that adult wellbeing includes daily living supports, community participation, identity development, and access to healthy relationships acrossdrothe spectrum.

The Occupational Therapist – Sexuality & Relationship Health Specialist provides holistic, neuro-affirming occupational therapy services to autistic adults aged 19 and older within the Pinwheel adult services model.

This role is intentionally structured with an approximately 50/50 split between core occupational therapy practice and specialized sexuality and relationship health support. Pinwheel recognizes sexuality, intimacy, and relationships as essential components of autonomy, wellbeing, identity, and quality of life.

Working from a strengths-based, trauma-informed, disability-affirming, and rights-based framework, the practitioner collaborates with participants to deliver functional assessments, therapeutic interventions, adaptive strategies, and sexuality- and relationship-focused education. All supports are participant-led and responsive to individual communication styles, sensory profiles, identities, cultures, and lived experiences.

Functional assessment, daily living skills, sensory processing, executive functioning, emotional regulation, accessibility strategies, and environmental adaptation.

Sexuality and relationship education, therapeutic support, consent and boundaries work, sensory-informed intimacy planning, relationship skill development, and lifespan sexuality transitions.

Deliver occupational therapy services within the Pinwheel model, emphasizing choice, self-determination, flexibility, and individualized pacing.

Conduct OT assessments addressing sensory processing, executive functioning, cognition, emotional regulation, and environmental factors.

Collaborate with participants to develop and implement intervention plans supporting daily living, self‑regulation, communication, independence, and meaningful participation.

Provide therapeutic support for functional routines, adaptive skill development, and community engagement.

_ticket recommend and implement sensory strategies, environmental SPDX modifications, communication supports, and assistive devices.

Support individuals through life transitions,иха changes in routines, employment or education goals, menopause, late diagnosis, and independent living skill development.

Collaborate with the  Pinwheel Supervisor and interdisciplinary…