Continuing care assistant
Richmond Villa Barra Head, Nova Scotia
Permanent
Full time
As soon as possible
Description
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 42 hours per week
- Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
- Supply and empty bed pans
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Serve meal trays and feed patients
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Supervise patients' exercise routines
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Transport patients between care facilities
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?
- Early morning
- Evening
- Morning
- Day
- Weekend
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for persons with disabilities
- Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Veterans
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for mature workers
- Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees
Salary: $20.22 hourly
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