continuing care assistant

Education:

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.

Work setting:

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.

Security and safety:

• Criminal record check.
• Immunization records.
• Vulnerable sector check.

Transportation/travel information:

• Own transportation.
• Own vehicle.
• Travel expenses not paid by employer.

Work conditions and physical capabilities:

• Repetitive tasks.
• Physically demanding.
• Attention to detail.
• Standing for extended periods.
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
• Walking.

Personal suitability:

• Client focus.
• Dependability.
• Efficient interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral communication.
• Flexibility.
• Reliability.
• Team player.

Screening questions:

1. Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
2. Do you have experience working in this field?.
3. Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.

Experience:

1 year to less than 2 years.

Employment terms options:

Shift.

Health benefits:

• Dental plan.
• Health care plan.
• Paramedical services coverage.
• Vision care benefits.

Financial benefits:

• As per collective agreement.
• Pension plan.

Other benefits:

• Free parking available.
• Travel insurance.