personal support worker – nursing care
Your tasks
- Accompany patients on outdoor recreational activities.
- Perform other duties related to patient care and comfort.
- Perform other duties related to personal care.
- Serve meal trays and feed 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.
- Transport patients between care facilities.
- Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher.
- Answer call signals to determine patients' needs.
- Administer first aid in emergency situations.
Requirements
Education Bachelor's degree. or equivalent experience.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Understanding and managing aggressive behaviour (UMAB) course.
- First Aid Certificate.
- CPR Certificate.
Transportation/travel information Valid driver's licence.
Personal suitability
- Client focus.
- Dependability.
- Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Flexibility.
- Initiative.
- Interpersonal awareness.
- Judgement.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Patience.
3 years to less than 5 years.
What we offer
Health benefits
- Dental plan.
- Health care plan.
- Paramedical services coverage.
- Vision care benefits.
Financial benefits
- Group insurance benefits.
- Pension plan.
Long term benefits Maternity and parental benefits.
Other benefits
- Free parking available.
- Learning/training paid by employer.
- On-site amenities.
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days).
- Team building opportunities.
- Transportation provided by employer.
- Parking available.
- Travel insurance.
Other
Work setting
- Work in employer's/client's home.
- Group home.
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Work under pressure.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Physically demanding.
- Standing for extended periods.
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Walking.
Weight handling Up to 45 kg (100 lbs).
Support for newcomers and refugees Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports newcomers and/or refugees.
Support for youths Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment.
Support for Indigenous people Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people.