Continuing Care Assistant
6 months ago
Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 80.5 hours bi-weekly
- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: Experience an asset
- or equivalent experience
**Work setting**:
- Nursing home/home for the aged
**Tasks**:
- Take patients' blood pressure, temperature and pulse
- Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
- Administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas
- Bathe, dress and groom patients
- Collect specimens
- Accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Administer first aid in emergency situations
- Administer medications
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:
- Continuing Care Assistant Certification
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
**Area of work experience**:
- University or college
**Security and safety**:
- Bondable
- Criminal record check
- Immunization records
- Vulnerable sector check
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:
- Fast-paced 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**:
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
**Personal suitability**:
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
**Screening questions**:
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- 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 above-indicated required certifications?
**Health benefits**:
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
**Financial benefits**:
- Group insurance benefits
**Other benefits**:
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Wellness program
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