continuing care assistant
VON Canada
New Minas, NS, CA
Permanent
- 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
12 days ago