About this role
Education: Other trades certificate or diploma. Work setting: Rural area. Nursing home/home for the aged.
Tasks
- 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.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : Continuing Care Assistant Certification.
- Security and safety: Vulnerable sector check.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: 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.
- Weight handling: Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs).
- Personal suitability: Client focus.
- Dependability.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Initiative.
- Interpersonal awareness.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Patience.
- Screening questions: Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Employment terms options: Evening.
- Night.
- Experience: Experience an asset.
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.
- Health benefits: Dental plan.
- Disability benefits.
- Health care plan.
- Paramedical services coverage.
- Vision care benefits.
- Financial benefits: As per collective agreement.
- Night shift premium.
- Pension plan.
- Other benefits: Other benefits.
- Team building opportunities.
- Parking available.
- Travel insurance.
- Wellness program.
Support for persons with disabilities: 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 . Support for newcomers and refugees: Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees . Support for Veterans: Offers flexible onboarding options to allow Veterans to gradually adapt to the civilian workplace (for example: gradually increasing hours and responsibilities, etc.) . Support for Indigenous people: 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 . Support for mature 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.) . Supports for visible minorities: Provides diversity and cross-cultural training to create a welcoming work environment for members of visible minorities.