continuing care assistant

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
• Transport patients between care facilities
• Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
• Answer call signals to determine patients' needs
• 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 authorized to work in Canada?

Health benefits

• Dental plan
• Health care plan

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement
• Life insurance
• Mileage paid
• Pension plan
• Work Term : Permanent
• Work Language : English
• Hours : 80 hours bi-weekly