continuing care assistant

Education:

Other trades certificate or diploma. or equivalent experience.

Work setting:

• Rural area.
• Nursing home/home for the aged.

Tasks:

• Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities.
• Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment.
• 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.
• Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas.
• 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.
• Collect specimens.
• Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas.

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses :

• Continuing Care Assistant Certification.
• CPR Certificate.

Security and safety:

• Criminal record check.
• Immunization records.
• Vulnerable sector check.
• Adult Abuse Registry check.

Transportation/travel information:

• Valid driver's licence.
• Own transportation.
• Own vehicle.

Screening questions:

• Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
• Are you currently a student?.
• Do you have experience working in this field?.
• Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.

Employment terms options:

• Early morning.
• Evening.
• Shift.
• Morning.
• Night.
• On call.

Experience:

Experience an asset.

Employment terms options:

• Day.
• Weekend.
• Overtime required.
• Overtime available.

Health benefits:

• Dental plan.
• Health care plan.
• Vision care benefits.

Financial benefits:

As per collective agreement.

Other benefits:

• Free parking available.
• Travel insurance.