Personal Support Worker - Cambridge, Canada - peopleCare Communities Inc.

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Description

Work Term:
Permanent


  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 75 hours biweekly
  • Education: College, CEGEP or other nonuniversity certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
  • Experience: Experience an asset

Work setting:


  • Nursing home/home for the aged

Tasks:


  • Supply and empty bed pans
  • Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
  • Serve meal trays and feed patients
  • Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
  • Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
  • Bathe, dress and groom patients
  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Collect specimens
  • Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations
  • Provide personal care
  • Provide companionship
  • Perform light housekeeping and cleaning duties
  • Launder clothing and household linens
  • Administer bedside and personal care
  • Feed or assist in feeding

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:


  • Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
  • CPR Certificate
  • Nursing Aide Certificate
  • Health Care Aide Certificate

Security and safety:


  • Criminal record check
  • Immunization records
  • Vulnerable sector check
  • Tuberculosis test
  • Reference required

Work conditions and physical capabilities:


  • Work under pressure
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability:


  • Client focus
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Patience

Health benefits:


  • Dental plan
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits:


  • As per collective agreement
  • Group insurance benefits

Other benefits:


  • Other benefits

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