Personal Support Worker

1 week ago


Canada Brookside Senior Living Kanata Full time

Work Term:
Permanent

  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 22.5 hours biweekly
  • Education: College, CEGEP or other nonuniversity certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
  • Experience: Experience an asset
  • Nurse/Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant
- or equivalent experience

Work setting:

  • Nursing home/home for the aged

Tasks:

  • 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
  • Assist with the setup and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, and assembling, settingup and operating jobrelated equipment
  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Answer call signals
  • Collect specimens
  • 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:

  • First Aid Certificate
  • CPR Certificate
  • Nursing Aide Certificate
  • Health Care Aide Certificate

Area of work experience:

  • University or college

Security and safety:

  • Vulnerable sector check
  • Tuberculosis test

Work conditions and physical capabilities:

  • Fastpaced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Sound discrimination
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Walking

Weight handling:

  • More than 45 kg (100 lbs)

Personal suitability:

  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player
  • Patience

Screening questions:

  • Are you available for shift or oncall work?
  • Are you available for the advertised start date?
  • Are you currently a student?
  • Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
  • Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
  • Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
  • Do you have the aboveindicated required certifications?
  • What is the highest level of study you have completed?
  • What is your current field of study?
  • What is your current level of study?

Financial benefits:

  • As per collective agreement

Other benefits:

  • Free parking available
  • Parking available


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