group home worker
Your tasks
- Housekeeping activities.
- Food preparation.
- Resolve conflict situations.
- Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses.
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas.
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher.
- Serve meal trays and feed patients.
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms.
- Collect specimens.
- Bathe, dress and groom patients.
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs.
- Supply and empty bed pans.
- Weigh, lift, turn and position patients.
- Administer first aid in emergency situations.
Requirements
Education Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate.
- CPR Certificate.
Security and safety
- Criminal record check.
- Child Abuse Registry check.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment.
- Work under pressure.
- Physically demanding.
- Attention to detail.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
Weight handling Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Interpersonal awareness.
- Judgement.
- Client focus.
- Flexibility.
- Initiative.
- Team player.
- Dependability.
- Reliability.
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you currently a student?.
No experience (will train).
Other
Work setting
- Group home.
- Rural area.
- Nursing home/home for the aged.
Employment terms options
- Evening.
- Shift.
- Night.
Employment terms options
- On call.
- Day.
- Weekend.