Continuing care assistant
VON Canada New Minas, Nova Scotia
Permanent
Part time
As soon as possible
Description
- Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 60 hours bi-weekly
- Education:
- Expérience:
Education- Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
Work setting- Home care and visiting care agency
- Rural area
- Various locations
Tasks- Supply and empty bed pans
- 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
- Maintain inventory of supplies
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Assist with the set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
- Transport patients between care facilities
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses - Continuing Care Assistant Certification
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
Security and safety- Criminal record check
- Child Abuse Registry check
- Immunization records
- Vulnerable sector check
Work conditions and physical capabilities- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Organized
Screening questions- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
Experience- Experience an asset
Health benefits- Dental plan
- Health care plan
Financial benefits- As per collective agreement
- Life insurance
- Mileage paid
- Pension plan
Salary: $21.79 hourly
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