continuing care assistant - New Minas, Canada - VON Canada

    VON Canada
    VON Canada New Minas, Canada

    2 weeks ago

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    Description
    • Work Term: Permanent
    • Work Language: English
    • Hours: 80 hours bi-weekly
    • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
    • Experience: Experience an asset
    • 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?
    • Health benefits

    • Dental plan
    • Health care plan
    • Financial benefits

    • As per collective agreement
    • Life insurance
    • Mileage paid
    • Pension plan