Continuing care assistant
Mountains and Meadows Care Group Bridgetown, Nova Scotia
Contract / Freelance
Part time
As soon as possible
Description
- Work Term: Temporary
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 48 to 80 hours bi-weekly
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
- Rural area
- Nursing home/home for the aged
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Perform other duties related to personal care
- 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
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
- Continuing Care Assistant Certification
- Vulnerable sector check
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Sound discrimination
- Standing for extended periods
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Walking
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Patience
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Day
- Weekend
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
- As per collective agreement
- Pension plan
- Other benefits
- Team building opportunities
- Parking available
- Travel insurance
- Wellness program
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
- Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
- Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.)
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers
- Facilitates access to Elders who can offer support and guidance to Indigenous workers
- Provides workspace accommodations, such as age-appropriate ergonomic considerations, to meet the physical needs of mature workers (for example: adjustable desks and chairs, accessible parking, etc.)
- Offers resources to help mature workers plan their retirement (for example: financial planning, access to pension and benefits, lifestyle adjustments, etc.)
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities
Salary: $24.29 to $26.99 hourly (to be negotiated)
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